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Glorified? What film did you watch?

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Analog Scott

In Reply to: RE: So, there is evil in the world and a film that glorifies it is.... posted by tinear on March 09, 2009 at 21:54:26

Watchmen doesn't glorify anything. Watchmen basically asks a few simple questions. 1. if people dressed up in costumes and fought crime in the real world what would these people be like? answer mostly psychopaths with extreme points of views be them liberal or conservative.
2. What would happen if superman were real? answer, he wouldn't be saving Lois Lane every week or fighting Lex Luther. He would have a profound socialogical and political impact. the movie doesn't glorify anything. It examines the comic book genre and mythologies from a view point that marked a revolution in comic books.

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very interesting, thank you - tunenut 20:04:49 03/11/09 (0)
Since I never read the source material, I did not think in these terms. But as a sort of meta-comic, placing traditional comic book characters in the gritty real world, it becomes more interesting conceptually.

I guess that my main problem with the plot is that it turns on the decision of Dr. Manhattan. And his final decision is based on a rather trite high school biology factoid. It just seemed to me that such an advanced being would not equate "improbable" with "miraculous."
Get real. It has much to say about society, life, national security, and - tinear 17:27:32 03/11/09 (3)
Humanity.
Not particularly profound things, mind you, but it does have pretensions.
- yes it does have a great deal of social and political comentary but - Analog Scott 22:52:22 03/11/09 (2)
  It doesn't glorify any of the things you claim it glorifies.
  - Then Leni Riefenstahl is innocent, too. nt - tinear 11:32:07 03/13/09 (1)
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    - Besides reveling in the ultra violence of the Old Boy series you also champion Quentin Tarantino. - sjb 16:27:17 03/13/09 (0)
      I mean... come on!
      
      "The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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