Costumed superheros are just... silly.
I mean you have to figure out a way around the costumed-ness.
I finally watched the Watchmen movie. I know. Too little too late. I'd... tried to read the comic book. I just couldn't. The movie, to me, was just a bunch of cool sequences about characters I was pretty much uninterested in. I mean, if maybe we could have tracked Rorschach's evolution and then had the fun and games section begin when he went to prison and then... whatever. It would have been... maybe? I don't know.
With trepidation I watched the Avengers movie.
The Avengers is a completely different ball of rabbits. Lordy-lo the characters are better written. The whole thing is really good. I mean, with The Watchmen I get it. The logical conclusion of costumed superheroes. The logical conclusion of "superman" (Doctor Manhattan).
But the Avengers is actually an enjoyable movie.
Yeah I know that
- I'm late to the party
- My geek-cred is completely shot by these admissions
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I'm so glad someone agrees with me about Watchmen. I work with a lot of comic book geeks, so can't express my opinions around them. A movie about a bunch of dare I say psychopaths, who want to dress up as super heroes, apart from the one with superpowers who was really just a big blue jerk. I haven't been so glad that a movie ended since Wanted. Rorschach was the only interesting character and the only reason to rewatch.
BTW, I have an idea "Hamlet in Space", there you can have that one.
Yeah, even though Rorschach was a sociopath he was at least trying. Which, you know, makes him somewhat interesting.
Sigh. I do not make a good comic book geek. ;-)
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