I Like This Job – I Like It!
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Today, I wanted to express my gratitude for movies inspired by, based on, and made about comic book stories. After a few certain movies that I won’t mention (cough’daredevil’catwoman’fantasticfouroneandtwo’cough), it looked as though these kind of movies were being made for the sake of gathering money from the public. But the past few such movies have perhaps turned that particular page (for this summer, at least). The movies still have commercial qualities in them; crazy special effects (I loved the Skyhook and the somersaulting truck in Dark Knight), deliberately long action sequences, and violent gasp-worthy fight scenes. But there is also artistic integrity, more respect for the original story’s intention and a new love for painstaking attention towards morals and responsibility (Dark Knight piled it on, but I’m also talking about Guillermo del Toro’s action sequence between Hellboy and the last forest god).