Yeah, I've seen that site before. Actually, I just found this site that talks about the Lois Lane comics they have there, which actually makes them sound interesting... http://members.aol.com/MG4273/lois.htm
But I see what you mean about comics being the excapist absurd. Hmmm... What I really liked about the X-Men movies is that they're a shade of reality. Like Bobby's "coming out" scene, or the moderates vs extremists, and Wolverine's redemption. So maybe what I'm liking are not the comic books, but the movies adaptations made by enlightened directors and screenwriters.
In a way, movies are all about personal experience. There's no way to do a survey of the masses in a movie because watching movies is an individual experience and the point of movies is allowing the individual to live briefly in the world presented on screen. We expect personal stories when we go to the movies.
(With comic books, on the other hand, it started out as a fantasy world. There's no way 8 colors on crappy paper can properly simulate the real world. So we have superheroes in over-bright costumes with over-bright personalities. There is, however, a move towards realism (but not reality) and "serious" stuff in the 80's. Even so, with comics it's more about the panel progression. You do not directly enter the world, but see it pass by in little sequential frames. Another reason why Sin City did not work as a movie)
So yes, movies are about personal stuff, but also exciting stuff. Extraordinary lives, or at least extraordinary responsibilities that then somehow connect to the everyman. And so, everyone is "the few". It's just like when you read Mill, you always side with the minority voice, the one that challenges the majority, because we value individualism. Or sense of ego kinda prevents it from being otherwise.
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But I see what you mean about comics being the excapist absurd. Hmmm... What I really liked about the X-Men movies is that they're a shade of reality. Like Bobby's "coming out" scene, or the moderates vs extremists, and Wolverine's redemption. So maybe what I'm liking are not the comic books, but the movies adaptations made by enlightened directors and screenwriters.
In a way, movies are all about personal experience. There's no way to do a survey of the masses in a movie because watching movies is an individual experience and the point of movies is allowing the individual to live briefly in the world presented on screen. We expect personal stories when we go to the movies.
(With comic books, on the other hand, it started out as a fantasy world. There's no way 8 colors on crappy paper can properly simulate the real world. So we have superheroes in over-bright costumes with over-bright personalities. There is, however, a move towards realism (but not reality) and "serious" stuff in the 80's. Even so, with comics it's more about the panel progression. You do not directly enter the world, but see it pass by in little sequential frames. Another reason why Sin City did not work as a movie)
So yes, movies are about personal stuff, but also exciting stuff. Extraordinary lives, or at least extraordinary responsibilities that then somehow connect to the everyman. And so, everyone is "the few". It's just like when you read Mill, you always side with the minority voice, the one that challenges the majority, because we value individualism. Or sense of ego kinda prevents it from being otherwise.