Fluid@aussie.zone 7 months ago
But it would be derivative if released nowdays. A part of its appeal was that it was something different in a sea of the same.
Fluid@aussie.zone 7 months ago
But it would be derivative if released nowdays. A part of its appeal was that it was something different in a sea of the same.
CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There’s an incredible irony here too. Watchmen the comic was released after years of superhero comics had played out the tropes to exhaustion. Watchmen was a critique of that comics industry. So to say that it belongs in a post-Endgame world is to acknowledge that the movie adaptation is now working as pre-satire of what superhero movies would become.
chandz05@lemmy.world 7 months ago
But this is why things like The Boys and Invincible are doing so well right. They parody the super hero movie tropes, as well as modern day life and media. The Watchmen movie as it exists was just fine for what it was, but instead of dark parody, like its source material, it went full-on blockbuster superhero. If it was released today and done well, I think it would be a hit
OmenAtom@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The point you made about the boys and invincible is the point the article is making. If it had realesed around now itd be crazy successful as a tear down of the super hero capeshit, assuming they did it the same justice now as they did then.
Shalakushka@kbin.social 7 months ago
But the watchmen movie didn't really act as a takedown. Aesthetically it is completely still convinced superheroes are cool, there isn't a whiff of subversion about the Zack Snyder version. Zack Snyder read Watchmen the same way he read Batman Returns. "Wow! Dark comic is cool! What is subtext???"