It's time to stop letting Frank Miller talk

In the new issue of Maxim they have a small article about The Spirit. "You bet your ass it's crazy!" is the first line, which is a quote from Frank when asked about the movie. The article goes on to say that The Spirit was created by Frank's mentor Will Eisner, explains the premise of the character and his villian. He goes on to explain that the process of making a movie is scary but then dismisses it by saying "But it's the same old game, telling a story with pictures." The quote regarding Sam Jackson's Octopus is "I said to him, 'Let's make you the scariest supervillian who ever lived.'" The last paragraph is the worst.

"The shift from the more innocent tone of Eisner's original strips to Miller's balls-out style -epitomized by switching the hero's trademark suit from bright blue to midnight black- has offended some Spirit fans. Miller doesn't think much of the nostalgia-mongers. 'If Eisner thought I built a dusty monument to what he did, he'd come back from the grave and throttle me. I owe him. I don't owe the fans a goddamn thing.'"

Considering how much effort Rodriguez put into Sin City, to make it look like the source material, to cast people that fit the parts, and the fact that he had to drop from the DGA, due to Miller not being in the WGA, to get it made. Then Miller turns around and makes a movie based on the material of someone he calls his mentor and basically says "Fuck the fanbase, fuck the original concept, I know what's right, I know how it should be done". As a comic writer you would think he has enough sense to know that the fanbase likes something for what it is, not some deranged mash up of bad one liners, Sam Jackson screaming in various assortments of ridiculous wardrobe, and a backdrop that looks just like Sin City. Personally, I find it surprising that he doesn't look back to the fan backlash of the Daredevil movie. He was on the receiving end of having his work publicly sodomized and now he feels he needs to do it to someone elses work that he says he admires? That's just stupid.