“I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams.”
So much of this is just the hardest action sequences put onto print film alongside the most heartfelt musings on the human experience. Not since Donner’s Superman has a comic book film up…
“With great power comes great responsibility.”
What do I even say? Classic superhero adaption that has been memed into oblivion also happens to be one of the greatest movies ever made and a love letter to comic book mythmaking and the self serious goofiness of the medium. Visually the least evocative of the trilogy but still more striking and imaginative than many movies made today. God-tier performance from Dafoe specifically. About as awesome as I remember it from my childhood VHS collection.
Tariq Nasheed is probably the greatest example of "What zero bussy does to a nigga".
This film is von Trier's Melancholia for bleeding-heart neolibs and post-Sorkinite demsocs who think acting smug is the answer to the current human extinction event we're in the midst of. It's Southland Tales for card-carrying DSA members who simp for The Squad as praxis and "Vote Blue No Mater Who" establishment Dems who think any municipality that hasn't already been aggressively gerrymandered in favor of God Emperor Biden's war crime syndicate is a lost cause. It somehow feels less nuanced…
