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How about the Bond style spy movies. The movies where everything gets better by breaking out in song and dance. The crime dramas where the nice, hard working

by LanceH 7y ago

How about the Bond style spy movies. The movies where everything gets better by breaking out in song and dance. The crime dramas where the nice, hard working lawyer gets someone else to confess on the stand while defending his client. Even "The Godfather" is escapist in the sense that they really are just about their families in the end and aren't really that bad, except to the other gangsters who are worse. They're protecting us. Same deal for sports. What difference does it make if green team beats yellow team this week? I think this is really another case of looking down on comics as being "for kids". Really, if people are going to take down anything purely for being escapist, musicals should be the first to go :)

goto11 7y ago
Well this is Alan Moore, the author of such comics as From Hell and Watchmen, so I don't think you can fairly accuse him of looking down on comics as being for kids. And why do you think he should care about musicals more than his own medium of choice?
licebmi__at__ 7y ago
>Even "The Godfather" is escapist in the sense that they really are just about their families in the end and aren't really that bad, except to the other gangsters who are worse. They're protecting us. This is a pretty weird and shallow interpretation of the movie. I don't dismiss stuff for being "for kids", I love manga and cartoons, hell just this weekend I binged "green eggs and ham", still I'm perfectly aware that almost all of this media has a bad execution, shallow themes and well it is for kids, and if I get a discussion with my friends (specifically about superhero movies) is about how blatant the topics and absurd the topics are.
iamaelephant 7y ago
> Same deal for sports. What difference does it make if green team beats yellow team this week? You know..... you know sports are real life right? Like, there is an actual competition happening, it's not pre-scripted. Sports fans like sports because they like watching talented athletes competing with one another.

by LanceH 7y ago

goto11 7y ago

Well this is Alan Moore, the author of such comics as From Hell and Watchmen, so I don't think you can fairly accuse him of looking down on comics as being for kids. And why do you think he should care about musicals more than his own medium of choice?

licebmi__at__ 7y ago

>Even "The Godfather" is escapist in the sense that they really are just about their families in the end and aren't really that bad, except to the other gangsters who are worse. They're protecting us. This is a pretty weird and shallow interpretation of the movie. I don't dismiss stuff for being "for kids", I love manga and cartoons, hell just this weekend I binged "green eggs and ham", still I'm perfectly aware that almost all of this media has a bad execution, shallow themes and well it is for kids, and if I get a discussion with my friends (specifically about superhero movies) is about how blatant the topics and absurd the topics are.

iamaelephant 7y ago

> Same deal for sports. What difference does it make if green team beats yellow team this week? You know..... you know sports are real life right? Like, there is an actual competition happening, it's not pre-scripted. Sports fans like sports because they like watching talented athletes competing with one another.