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Bruce/Batman is the comic book hero least likely to strike an emotional chord, because he's as emotionally closed-off as late-seasons Buffy
And as such, not much of a woobie.
Cass? She's a woobie, and then some. Batman doesn't have the same footholds.
As we left, I asked if she liked it, and she said no, she's always hated the story.
Did she expect to like it, though?
Did she expect to like it, though?
I think she went in willing to like it, except for the fact that it actually was Romeo and Juliet, and the story pissed her off too much to focus on the cool trappings.
Thanks Ple. I should have moved that over to comic thread.
Wednesday I'm definitly going to the comic book store. Hopefully I can figure out the minimum number of titles I'll be happy reading and stick with that.
Cass? She's a woobie, and then some. Batman doesn't have the same footholds.
Exactly. Batman's not a woobie, he just trains them.
I'm still not clear on what a woobie is.
A woobie is someone you want to hug and squeeze and call him George.
Bats is defintly not a woobie.
Actually, I can't really think of a character I feel that way about.
I'm talking about the character, as depicted in the comics in the past ten years. If you don't like him, why should you like the movie?
Because I entered the theatre (1) basically ignorant of the past ten years of comics and (2) with no expectation that the movie would be totally faithful to comics I haven't read.
If I walk into a movie theatre, I expect to have a reason to want to participate (emotionally, vicariously) with the events on the screen. This movie, I didn't. Ultimately, what seems to be the problem is a total and inexplicable failure of my usually-excellent radar to detect "you won't like this at all" vibes from the movie theatre before I got there. (Said radar being why I see so few movies in the theatre.)
Actually, I can't really think of a character I feel that way about.
It's usually applied to very damaged characters with oodles of emotional trauma (e.g., Spike, Sawyer, Smallville Lex).