Have I mentioned...

[eumelia]

...That I hate Frank Miller?

Especially for "Frank Miller's The Spirit".

Hey! Effing Frank Miller! It may be your movie which I'll go see only while threatened with bodily harm... but it's not your "Spirit".

It's Will Eisner's! Of the Fucking Eisner Awards! Of "The Plot", he who had more talent in his pinky finger than you could ever consider having.

Aaaaargh!!!!!!!!!

Okay, rant over.

But seriously, there has to be a differentiation between the two. Future generations will see this movie go find the book and ask "Who is Will Eisner? I thought Frank Miller did the Spirit?".
That friends is very bad.
Very bad indeed.
A little artistic integrity is at times required.

Speaking of which... or the lack thereof, do click on this:


Via aesiron and Newsarama.

The Dark Knight Returns is the only Miller thing I feel is worth reading, if only for the character revamp that enabled Batman to rise up again from the campy Adam West, who is entertaining, but oh so bad, and become the dark messed up post-trauma character again.
Everything else that man has touched is just so... so... bad.

Comments

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

I really, really like Miller's two Daredevil runs, excluding "Man Without Fear", though that has some good points, too. And "The Dark Knight Returns" and "Elektra: Assassin" are good because Miller hasn't lost his sense of humour yet - but then he turns into a bloated, misogynist self-parody. His second run on "Daredevil" even has a female character who is not a mother/nun or a whore - Glorianna O'Breen is a professional photographer, dumps the main character, and survives the comic only slightly injured.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I may have to check that out, though I'm quite the sectarian when it comes to comics, I mainly read DC/Vertigo ;P

I dunno, I was so impressed with The Dark Knight Returns and then I read Sin City and wanted to vomit - oooh it's so edgy with the portrayal of nothing original - and 300 was just... how you say? Bad.
And I'm talking both comics and films.
I dunno, I'm just pissed that this guy gets so much cred when in fact I feel that he keeps the medium from developing beyond pulp.