I saw the trailer on-line. I was like “Yeah! Frank Miller! Yeah…. oh… fuck…. no… noooooo…. noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…. <sob>.... Frank, you bastard! Why? Why for the love of fuck?!??!?”

Anyway, there’s been so much celluloid suckage over the past few years I was over it in about 5 minutes. But still, Frank, dude, this blows.

Maybe Frank’s just an old hack who had a few big hits in the comic book world years ago that were largely flukes, and he’s been coasting along on the goodwill from those ever since.

I mean, honestly, he’s a twit, he really is. Do you know why he “abandoned” Hollywood in the first place and refused to come back until some director was such a lickspittle cocksucking fan that he pledged to use Frank’s exact comic books as script and storyboard?

Because he turned in unshootable scripts for Robocop 2 and Robocop 3, and got all pissy when the studios sent them back and told him they were unshootable. He cried the tears of infinite sadness, and took his ball and went home until Sin City.

Which, yeah, has a few fun parts, but it’s one of the most fridge-riddled movies ever and I avoid seeing it anymore because I know every time I do something else silly and/or lame is gonna jump out at me.

I still wonder what made Miller’s Robocop 2 scripts unfilmable - I never read the comic adaptations, and the synopsis sounds an awful lot like the subpar sequel that eventually came out, so I don’t have much ammo to use for comparison.

But I don’t think I’d go so far as to call Frank a hack.  He had a great run on Daredevil in the early eighties, wrote the greatest Batman story ever, and gave us the Sin City saga. 

I don’t have a word for it, but I believe that Frank let the notoriety bestowed on him for The Dark Knight Returns (which was rightly deserved, IMO), go to his head, and so he phoned in The Dark Knight Strikes Back (Biggest comic disappointment EVER), and now he appears to be destroying the character that started it all - Will Eisner’s The Spirit.

He’s doing this because he can, and if drooling fanboys keep giving him their money, it only encourages him to continue.  I’m praying that The Spirit fails and Frank pitches another fit and leaves the movie business for good.  Of course, if he did that, then, well, he’d do it because nobody is smart enough to “get” his work.

The Dark Knight Returns is one of the most overrated graphic novels ever.  He didnt just phone in The Dark Knight Strikes Back, All Star Batman and Robin is even worse - think Marv with a Batmna cowl who says Im the GODDAMNED Batman ever 3 panels and thats the story in a nutshell.

My favorite is when Bats fights Green Lantern and he paints the whole building yellow so GL cant do anything then offers him lemonade. 12 year old Robin crushes Hal’s larynx and then Batman has to trache him, its moronic garbage.

Also Joker as a Yakuza tattooed assasin. Just moronic.

After Dark Knight Strikes back I kept my distance from Miller’s All Star Batman & Robin run. 

Dark Knight Returns is one of the best Batman stories ever, and when you couple that with the strength of Frank’s Batman:Year One arc, you’d think he sort of understood the character a bit more.  Instead, it sounds like he basically turned Batman into a Punisher ripoff that doesn’t kill.  Then again, I haven’t really dug much of the Batman comics in the past decade or so, so maybe he’s just a symptom of a larger problem.

Correction, Vox, Frank Miller likes to turn Batman into a Punisher ripoff who kills a LOT, and gets a thrill from it.

I showed a page of All-Star Batman & Robin to someone, once. They asked me “Who’s the guy in the Batman suit?” I told him, “Frank Miller.”