xmetatr0nx said:
Wait what?
Manos: Hands of Fate...you cant top that, not even the watchmen movie comes close to how horrible that was.
OK, I will admit I have not read the Watchmen comic book. You may have. As a result you may say it doesn't follow canon. I conceed this.
In my opinion the Watchmen movie was the best movie I watched in 2009. I was better in the DVD director's cut. Why?
It was a true anti-hero movie. I know it is silly and relative to my own opinion. But they acted just as I would if I was some sort of super hero. Think about it. Most humans (perhaps Americans) would be very morally ambigious as the charaters in that movie. If I felt morallity is as solid and uncomprimising as Roshack, I expect myself to bludgen the skull of of a child molester as Roshack. If I was a God being as Dr. Manhatten, I would expect to lose my humanity as the normal boundries of human existance became trivial given the grander understanding of the universe. If I could cling to walls and shoot webing from my wrist, I would just use it to get into concerts for free, I would not become Spiderman. If I was a billionare I would not become Bataman, I would date and screw every single mom I could find. Single moms everywhere like billionares.
Don't get me wrong. The movie may have had some flaws. It did not have an iconic character like Siperman, Batman, or Superman in it. Iconic ideals that are expected and have stood the iconic test of time. That is why I liked it. The "superhereos" kept asking themselves "what is right?" Instead of holding some clicheic mantra.
Is it good movie going entertainment dollar value. Aside from moral debate which never makes a dollar in the theater. It had male shwank for those that like it. It had female shwanck for those that like it. It had a large body count. It also had subtle and obvious irony based humor, archtypes, and whacky costumes. What more could a person want?
EDIT: OT, Howard The Duck. Saw it on Netflix recently. Wow, I don't remember the 80s being that dumb.