Don't get me wrong, Watchmen and V for Vendetta are most likely my two favorite movies. But how come ever since the original Hellboy has every superhero movie been about some sort of anti-hero. I love anti-hero films, but it's starting to turn into some sort of reverse formula. It seems as though Hollywood can only have either have cheesy heroes "G.I. Joe," or alcoholic anti-heroes "Hancock." I miss some films like the Spiderman 1 or X-Men 1 where characters could have depth and reflect humanity without being exaggeration or robotic. Richard Roeper said the world needs a superhero support group, and I'd probably have to agree.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
... Make That 2 Coffees
ANYWAY, for COMM 224 I of course have pick a top to write about for the semester. This is a weird/goofy topic, but I wanted to do politics of superhero movies. I just find it interesting that almost every superhero movie recently has some sort of Libertarian, or least some sort Libertarian ideologies. Watchmen, Batman, and Judge Dread to name a few. Sam Raimi, the gentleman who directed Spiderman, interestingly campaign donations to several Democrats, and one to a Republican, one named George W. Bush. It's almost like he was trying to send them out in enough different ways that fans of his movies wouldn't know how to pin him down. Which brings me to another point.
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so i have to tell you that there is absolutely nothing wrong with superhero movies. they rule, and yes i agree xmen 1 and spiderman 1 were just the best i cannot stand the ones that came after i feel like they only come out with them to make money not to develop a story or character. however there is one movie that the second one was better than the first and that is HULK, the first one suckeeddddd but the one with ed norton mhmmm loved it. do you agree or am i completely insulting hah
I agree that the anti superhero is being over used but it doesnt differ from anything else in the media. Every where you look if one thing suceeds the next week you are going to see 10 things that are simmiler to the first. Its all marketing where the companys are trying to get in on a "cash crop". In this case super hero/comic book movies have been in non stop production since basicly the release of spider man.
Its just somthing we are going to deal with as long as people can make money off of it.
No, your not insulting at all. I agree that I like the second one better. My issue with the first one was that I haven't been very fond of Ang Lee's films so far. Maybe I should give them a second look. However, the second one is made by a completely different group and doesn't really follow the first one, so I think that might be why it has different results.
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