There are only 2 intelligent comic book based movies out there, as far as I’m aware of: TDK and Watchmen. I’ve seen both only 1 time and atm I’d rate Watchmen well above TDK. As I understood them, TDK and Watchmen bring to the exact same conclusion on the absolute need of being a hero and a villain at the same time to do good. But Watchmen goes well deeper than that, maybe it’s the whole uchronia/alternate History that caught me, but also the characters who are not even well developed in the movie compared to what I’ve read about the comic book. I don’t know, I had a lot of feelings watching Watchmen and was close to being blown away by the ending, but TDK didn’t do it for me. It really left me cold from beginning to end, except some action scenes, but that’s not what I was looking for.
Others superhero movies such as X-Men, Iron Man, etc. can’t be compared to those 2 because they don’t bring an extended reflection or don’t even call for second thoughts after they’re over. Although they can be really entertaining and a lot of fun to watch. Like Iron Man, it has really cheesy and overused, American-styled scenes in it, especially at the beginning, but I enjoyed watching it overall.
I really don’t understand the IMDB top 20 or so movies ranked by the users. And I definitely need to watch the Shawshank Redemption soon if it really is the best movie ever made, haha. I must prepare myself of being disappointed here :>
