> James Gunn on today’s characters: “Everybody’s a f*cking antihero. Everybody’s too f*cking cool.”
> "What about not being cool? What about being a nice human being to someone? Why is that considered old-fashioned and Pollyanna? I want to be Pollyanna. I love that aspect of myself. I believe in the goodness of the human spirit. I think a lot of the people that are doing things I don’t like, I think that they are essentially good people. They just have weird ideas about things, and I think that we can communicate with those people. Maybe I’m naive, I don’t know, but that’s who I am."
Gen X version of troll's remorse. This is a funny point of confluence of libs and chuds where they both just want simple, uncritical and straightforwardly instructive works that don't bother seriously examining questions like "what is good?" or "can a virtuous person falter?", just feel-good slop.
9 posts and 1 image reply omitted.>>713282The real problem is that Gunn is full of shit. He doesn't mean any of these words and his previous work proves it. He's just catering his words to exactly what the hopepunk audience wants to hear.
God I'm so tired of capeshit discourse. The best superhero movie is still worse than a good superhero comic, and superhero comics aren't exactly great art to begin with. But at least if you crack open the best of Jack Kirby's work you get pages upon pages of cool cosmic pop-art and not "inspirational" shit for emotionally stunted 34yos who want Superman to tell them they are valid.