Oné of the reasons I don’t like to know much about the personal lives of actors, directors or writers is that it can impact my admiration of their work.
Case in point…
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Occupy Frank Miller
Frank Miller writes on his blog;
Everybody’s been too damn polite about this nonsense:
The “Occupy” movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment. “Occupy” is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.
“Occupy” is nothi…
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Yikes! Condescend much Frank?
best comment: “Wow. I am so disappointed in you, Frank.”
sums it up for me. Obvious he just doesn’t get it.
Miller has been a right-wing loon for some time now. This doesn’t surprise me. Fortunately, I haven’t cared about his work since the late 80s, so I don’t lose out much by ignoring him.
Even in the 80s he was a right winger. He’s gotten far more extreme though.
I haven’t enjoyed his recent work particularly. But these sorts of comments leave a bad taste in my mouth even when looking at his classic work.
Frank Miller seems pretty uppity for someone who wrote Robocop 2.
Guess he needs to increase books sales. Pretty good way to do it.
By ripping a VERY popular movement I mean.
I perused his recent Holy Terror book after it came out just to see how far he’s fallen. From that piece I’d conclude that he’s just right of Ann Coulter.
I think the last thing he did worth reading was “That Yellow Bastard” which was around 1996. His All-Star Batman run was dull, read like Sin City, and seemed like an excuse to get Jim Lee to draw scantily clad women.
Couple things. One: the movement is no longer popular as of last week. For the exact reasons he pointed out: and that is the crime. Why do the protesters who have a legitimate point condone the violence and crime being committed in the streets? Because for some reason, they consider their movement to be above the law. And that is why this guy thinks that way, as does the majority of America.
In the future, when I am asked why I’m not a Frank Miller fan (I’m not and never really have been) I will point to this rather than his work. Thanks for helping me be lazier!
Really +Daniel Baker. You speak for America now? I didn’t get that particular memo.
Hey, Frank. Read this and tell us how we’re overreacting to corporate greed: http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2011/11/my-name-is-bill-mantlo-i-want-to-go-home/
+Daniel Baker, You need to get your information from more reliable sources. The movement is still going strong, and it is attracting more and more vets (y’know the guys who actually fought the wars that Miller gets a chubby for) every day.http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Veterans-Joining-Up-With-Occupy-Movements-133704108.html
Yeah, that’s not really surprising at all. I think the one thing I took away from Dark Knight Returns was that Frank Miller really hates hippies/The Left. Still a bummer reading that, though.
As you said +Eoghann Irving, it’s never good reading about personal lives of creators, but, that said… well, take Mel Gibson. The man’s a maroon, but Braveheart is still a great movie. The trick is disassociating the work with the man, which can be rough.
The one thing I took away from The Spirit was that Frank Miller really hates movies
OK, here are my sources to prove my point, and I will also say I understand your point. But here goes. A Rasmussen poll taken November 3 – 4. 2011 shows that while 33% of Americans favor OWS, 43% find it unfavorable, and the other 24% still don’t know whats going on. That is also a very good source and a fair poll. So that is how I got away with saying that Americans do not side with OWS, because this poll (among many others) show this to be true.
However, yet again, I do not hear anything about the violence and crime being committed. The OWS movement I fully agree came out as a very good beginning. It had a legitimate argument that wall street has some very corrupt people. That is perfectly fine, it is true, and as long as it is not taken too far, it is a strong force to be reckoned with. Well this movement has gone too far. When the occupiers have shown many incidents of criminal activity and violence escalated, why were those with a legitimate argument just content to stand there and let these people get away with it? Why are there not people who agree with the movement saying get those idiots out of there! Why not? If you find anyone who is doing that, get behind them! Show you agree with them. Stop the crime, stop the violence, and go back to protesting peacefully. Otherwise the movement is just as Frank Miller said. And that is exactly why he said it. He sounds pretty smart to me, but I don’t like how he lumped the legitimate protesters with the criminals, but heck, birds of a feather flock together.
Rasmussen has a reputation for swinging right when every other poll is center or swinging left, so I do not give them much credence. Sorry.
As for other sources: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/03/more-americans-supporting-occupy-wall-street/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_politicalticker+%28Blog%3A+Political+Ticker%29
and as for coming out against violence:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/03/1032819/-I-Condemn-the-Violence-and-Destruction-in-Oakland
and
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011 – 11-03/occupy-oakland/51059738/1
+Daniel Baker There’s just as many polls showing that many more favor OWS then are not for it. Polls are mostly pointless.
The Police violence towards the protesters is uncalled for, There is no reason for it at all. Frank Miller can go suck a mother fucking egg.
What I loved about Dark Knight Returns was that it drove home a fact that I hadn’t noticed dangling in front of me for years: that Batman really is a vigilante thug who assaults, brutalizes, tortures, even punishes supposed criminals, with little or no evidence to support his judgement. The only reason we readers were ever willing to put up with it, especially in Dark Knight, was because he was Batman. He was right every time, and we knew it, because he was Batman.
But even as an early high-schooler, I knew the idea of a thug who is always right, despite having no evidence to back him up, could only ever be fiction. If Batman existed in the real world, I’d condemn him as strongly as anyone. It’s a shame to see that the man who made that so clear to me apparently believes that not only can such people exist, but that he is one of them.
Police brutality towards protesters.…yea only someone who believes moveon.org would believe that crap.
Or the videos of it. http://youtu.be/OZLyUK0t0vQ
What are you going to believe, +Daniel Baker or your lying eyes?
Wow good comeback, the four hours it took to come up with it was totally worth it
No I choose to believe the truth, which is the protesters started the violence.
Truth or your propaganda? You can’t have both, as they aren’t the same.
My propaganda? When the facts are on my side. Yea. Ok