It would be really funny if it turned out you were making this all up.
JD
Timeshredder
Well, dang. I posted almost this exact answer in another thread in this discussion. I hadn’t read all the way down yet. Still good to have a handwavy explanation when possible.
You may be correct, in the long run.
Why didn’t Hamlet just let shit go and mourn his father’s death like a normal person? Because that’s not the damn story we’re telling today.
This has always been one of the things we’ve had to handwave for decades in comics, or we’d rarely get a story where a hero was in serious danger or even gets to be a hero. Batman thinks, “$#!%! The Joker’s about to blow up half of Gotham! I can swing around and try to stop him at the last minute, or I could just call…
As your conclusion reminds us, other improbable New Yorkers have run for president and, against all reason, found themselves in the Oval Office.
The movie is not the top-tier of Marvel, but it’s pretty good. I just returned from a showing in Detroit that crossed age, gender, and racial lines, and can report five instances of spontaneous applause. Highly enjoyable.
“We appreciate it very much, Cindy Rubantuck.”
Uh, while I’ve always preferred “Roam,” have you literally been waiting since 1990 to say that and it just kind of finally exploded out?
My favorite cat ever was the ginger stray we adopted, who died about five years later in an accident. She was more of a DC girl, as this “Cat and Canary” photo indicates:
Well, when my wife and I went to see The Avengers, we ended up sitting behind two teen girls, who did not in any overt way appear to be geek girls. One could imagine them playing, say, junior Spirit Squad members on Degrassi. One girl only knew the Marvel movies. The other was patiently explaining aspects of the…
I have been reading comics for decades, and given seminars on their history, so, you are wrong. But what works on the page does not always work in movies aimed at a mass audience, and the Shazam! Captain Marvel has never worked for me in his “serious” incarnations. Fawcett created a hero with a lighter touch, and he…
Sure, but Batman has been able to bear a certain amount of darkness more than most DC characters, and the particular film you mention was more than “slightly” goofy!
Granted, but I would still argue there is only so much darkness the typical superhero premise can bear before it breaks.
So.... DC is finally getting good reviews by changing the tone of their movies.
I’m curious, too. One of the things I really liked about the book was how it handled the fact of Lovecraft’s racism, so that the eldritch horror beneath the small-town surface becomes a metaphor for the real-world horrors of racial discrimination beneath the surface of society. I am hopeful that aspect will be clear…
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Nickname of the loser character in an 80s teen comedy.