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Frank Miller's fun. The way a lot of things are fun but I wouldn't go around pretending he's something he's not. This is one step past taking knock knock joke

• dsr_ 5y ago
  Nah, people are allowed to critique literature. If you enjoy it without wanting to think about it, that's your right; her right is to think about it and write about what she's thinking.
  • JKCalhoun 5y ago
    When I was a teenager, I probably would have dug violent vigilantism (like I enjoyed "Mad Max" when it came out at that time). My own art back then reflected a cynical, dark, post-apocalyptic future (likely inspired by films like "A Boy and His Dog" as an example). Story time: in those days the "copy shops" were ma and pa (the way the original video rental stores were) and the nearest copy shop where I took some of my art to be "Xeroxed" was, apparently, run by a born-again Christian. When I picked up my art he felt I needed a preachin' to. "Why spend your talents making the world a darker place?" Why not make positive art?" (Or something along those lines. I think "glory of God" was in there too and was in fact the tell.) I thought at the time how boring that would be, how "non-cool", "non-art" that was. I laughed it off. Three decades later I can begin to appreciate his disappointment in younger me. The world events since (and since I got older and started paying attention) have informed me that indeed there is already too many horrific (real) things in the world. Older me now just can't enjoy, for example, a Quentin Tarantino film (no doubt teen me would have loved it though). I have no interest in Frank Miller. I don't want to live in his world, don't care even to look at it.