I get it, it's more dark and in a sense more "mature" but at the end of the day movies are entertainment and this seems to ruin your day. There is a reason a lot of movies have positive messages. It's not cheap, it's part of the point.
shareA strange post.
I didn't find it that depressing. Movies should be entertaining and this one is, but it's good to tackle serious issues too.
Good Will Hunting, Taxi Driver, The Godfather, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Boyhood, Spotlight, Schindler's List - all great films, some arguably depressing, all entertaining.
I don't think any of them would be improved by stripping them of having anything important to say.
Which films would you prefer?
I didn't find it that depressing. Movies should be entertaining and this one is, but it's good to tackle serious issues too.
First of all, movies don't HAVE to be anything. Movies can be "boring" if they want to be if it helps adhere to the story it's telling. Second off, you had a much better argument on your header, where did it go? The idea that the film tries to be overly depressing makes it unrealistic. I don't agree with this notion, but I was interested in what that kind of point of view could have entailed. Instead you just said an inane declarative statement that didn't add anything to the conversation.
Your post sucks, and I hope you die.
Not really on that second part. 'Merry Christmas.
Well, I was highly entertained by this movie. In fact it's one of the very few superhero movies that achieved that. That "positive message" crap gets boring very fast, especially when you realize that it's basically just a lie.
shareIt's a gritty film and it's strength lies exactly in the supposedly "depressing" real life stuff. Our heroes are not so heroic here. One smells and is a psychopath, another has impotence and cannot control his emotions, another is detached from humanity, or so smart he can't really connect with anyone.
Don't ignore the positivity in the film too, particulary centered around Laurie, what happens between her and Dan, her mother, Dr Manhattan. All these characters grow.
The film goes overboard at times when deviating from the comic (in the gory scenes) but is not wrong in depicting human nature as savage ("Blake understood..."). If you accept it as a fact it's not depressing. Some people believe they would never, ever kill another person, no matter what the circumstance...these people lie to themselves and will agree this sort of film is too depressing. I'd rather have the truth than the type of cheap, comforting little lie that adults tell their children before going to sleep. Speaking of maturity...