The amount of people who think a kid calling a guy “Captain Sparklefingers” is hilarious proves Alan Moore’s point that adults who can’t outgrow superhero comics are embarrassing.
This character is supposed to have “the wisdom of Solomon” ffs...
The entire movie is filled with what I felt were childish jokes. And ya I get it they are kids in the movie, but it was aimed at children yet the adults in the theater were gobbling it up.
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I work in psychology in ghettos, with murderers, in prisons, with dangerous insane people, and I can laugh at what I want. Alan Moore is some isolated dude who writes comics and is bitter about it and ungrateful of his super easy job he can do from home.
Many people have hard lives and nothing much is funny. When something funny and entertaining comes along that doesn't harm anyone, we should be happy. We shouldn't have to worry about conforming to the standards of what pointless snobs find amusing.
Well said Sir.
shareI work with deaf and blind orphans and I say people can be unhappy about whatever they want, especially this film.
shareI work with blind, deaf, AND quadriplegic orphans who, further, are soon to be evicted from state-run orphanages that lose their funding. In one case the poor kid was just a head hooked up to some electrodes in a dirty basement with faulty wiring. I agree with you Bruno. I hope that my credentials give extra weight and credibility to my opinion.
shareIt's just dc fankids who think everything has to be 'like dark knight' ... comically deep voices included.
shareMoore is on point, just look at this review on Rotten Tomatoes.
A welcome antidote to the usual brooding DC fare, an upbeat superhero movie that feels young at heart.
The thing is ... Justice League, Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman and Aquaman weren’t brooding. In fact, all of them were reshot to include more jokes.
Only Man of Steel and BvS could be accused of being too serious.
Lazy film criticism.
BvS was serious to the point of being unintentionally unfunny, yeah I can't defend that one even if I tried, but hey I liked it, the fight scenes were pretty good. DC are doing great adopting the Marvel formula, next they'll be making 'The Batman' Deadpool-esque making self-referential 'jokes'.
After all these years DC spent trying to get the cinematic Batman right and make audiences take him seriously as a character, turning him into a laughing stock will just be ironic at this point. I don't know about everyone else but there's only so much quipping and cornball humour I can put up with. It's like superhero movies today are being made for Big Bang Theory fans, which wouldn't be a problem if we could have dark superhero movies too.
It feels like only yesterday I saw Suicide Squad on the big screen, oh the horror.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgInmHHO0m4
Then you'll agree with Bill Maher.
Ok, nerd.
shareUnlike in Adam Sandler movies, who really cant outgrow being childish, in this movie it was actual young kids doing the jokes, so it made sense universe-wise.
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