Rorschach is so cool! What a badass character
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???"
TheBat@lemmy.world [bot] 7 months ago
ech@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Everything I needed to know about Zach Snyder I learned from Sucker Punch. The lack of insight combined with the gall to behave like it was somehow progressive was amazing.
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Snyder is the ultimate embodiment of “style of substance”
OmenAtom@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Id say the subtext is still there, but ill admit i wish it was there intentionally as a choice of the dircetor and not just seeping through the source material in a watered down way.