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Tag Archives: Dark Knight
Green Lantern (Cultural Counter Punch)
There’s a line in the cultural sand of superheroes. It’s a line that says superheroes are either “dark and sophisticated” like The Dark Knight or “slight and stupid” like Green Lantern. It’s deeper than superheroes actually. It’s how we have been taught to view the world now. Shows like Dexter and The Wire and others [...]
Posted in Blog, Comic Books, Movies Also tagged Action Adventure, Asshole, Counter Punch, Creative Action, Culture War, Dexter, Different Point Of View, Epic Battle, Good Fun, Good Guys And Bad Guys, Green Lantern, Outright Hostility, Protagonists, Reasonable Person, Smart Film, Superhero Flick, Superheroes, Term Culture, Wages 7 Comments
Realism VS Surrealism
Realism is highly overrated. In particular, I hate realism applied to fantasy. Mostly because it seems to miss the point of fantasy in the first place. I recently started a Twitter mini-debate with a friend of mine.* Watching a preview for the new Kick-Ass movie, I remarked how the movie straddles a clumsy line between [...]
Posted in Blog Also tagged Backstory, Bank Robbers, Batman Begins, Bullets, Deconstruction, Grown Man, Justification, Kick Ass, Killers, Mini Series, New Kick, Parody, Pistols, Premise, Realism, Superheroes, Surrealism, Technological Edge, Tongue In Cheek 1 Comment
Opinions
Opinions are a funny thing. We all have them, and, no matter how much we might have in common with each other, no matter how similar 95 percent of our thoughts may be, there’s always disagreements. My buddy Nik and I both share a love of pulp, of Transformers, of superheroes and Heroscape. But we [...]
Posted in Blog Also tagged Average Joe, Butto, Cool Things, Disagreements, Eclipses, First Person Shooter, Fps, Fun Game, Funny Thing, Heroscape, Internet Age, Nik, Nitwit, Numbskull, Premise, Random Thoughts, Self Indulgence, Solid Gold, Superheroes 5 Comments
The Event Horizon of Boring