They are all, pardon my language, fucked up characters. I don't know if they are a parody of the usual superheros, but they are certainly different. Usually a good superhero is shown as torn, or conflicted but they still serve a good purpose. Here they are mostly just bad, or have become bad. When they started out they had good intensions (though it was still a form of self-justice) but now their ego's have taken over control.
I was expecting this from the trailers. I think this was achived , but this wasn't anything new. We had seen it done in IMHO better way in recent "Batmans" ("Batman begins" and "Dark Knight"). And generally, this seems to be the aim of any recent superhero movie, even .. "Iron Man"!!!.
It may serve the purpose to show how bad the superheroes are, but it also opens the door that some people will like the movie for the wrong reasons (that's what I alluded to in my previous comment).
** Agrees ** I can absolutely see this movie to be a huge hit with middle-aged fans of the original source. After all, we are back to good old 80s!! We have some guys like this at work, I am going to make some research and ask them what they thought.
The movie destroys the usual superhero-myth.
It certainly did for me, but with boredom. :D The film is like grunge sexed-up version of "Batman and Robin".
I thought they didn't do enough to establish why he's the 'smartest man in the world'. Though I guess you can see the fact that he's very rich as prove he's smart.
I think they might have been afraid to disclose who the "villain" is too soon?
PS: I did like Rorschach, however, very much so. But I wished they cut some of his long voiceovers.
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Date: 2009-03-17 12:50 pm (UTC)I was expecting this from the trailers. I think this was achived , but this wasn't anything new. We had seen it done in IMHO better way in recent "Batmans" ("Batman begins" and "Dark Knight"). And generally, this seems to be the aim of any recent superhero movie, even .. "Iron Man"!!!.
It may serve the purpose to show how bad the superheroes are, but it also opens the door that some people will like the movie for the wrong reasons (that's what I alluded to in my previous comment).
** Agrees **
I can absolutely see this movie to be a huge hit with middle-aged fans of the original source. After all, we are back to good old 80s!! We have some guys like this at work, I am going to make some research and ask them what they thought.
The movie destroys the usual superhero-myth.
It certainly did for me, but with boredom. :D The film is like grunge sexed-up version of "Batman and Robin".
I thought they didn't do enough to establish why he's the 'smartest man in the world'. Though I guess you can see the fact that he's very rich as prove he's smart.
I think they might have been afraid to disclose who the "villain" is too soon?
PS: I did like Rorschach, however, very much so. But I wished they cut some of his long voiceovers.