(May 16, 2025 at 12:15 pm)Alan V Wrote:Yes there is a professional wrestling element to it and indeed overthinking them takes away from the fun I won't deny that but there are messages there and I think good ones(May 16, 2025 at 9:15 am)The Architect Of Fate Wrote: That's not remotely the message of superhero movies at all you just don't get the genre
Nowhere does the movie remotely teach us that only the powerful can save us.
To me superhero movies seem a lot like professional wrestling: superheroes fighting super-villains, but with special effects.
I enjoy them anyway. Taking them too seriously misses the point altogether.
Come to think of it, superhero movies are very similar to religions too: superheroes fighting super-villains.
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Nemo sicut deus debet esse!
“No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
