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Why do so many critics and audiences call it "realistic"?

posted 8 years ago by Zombie55
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Doesn't it just amaze you how this, even ironic but still, comic book like super hero-esque action comedy with some fantasy touches added to it, considered by many to be "realistic", especially with several touches of this man killing tons of heavily armed bad guys and complete with comic sketches like "Kaboom" among others, or his getting away easily with beating up people in public with dozens of witnesses, how in the world, no matter how good this movie is, is it actually "realistic"?

The greatest trick the Devil has ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist!

[–] plowe70 8 years ago

I think it's realistic in the sense that it delves into the psyche of a man lost. What are the circumstances that could lead up to a man donning a superhero suit and hitting the streets to fight crime? And then how would he realistically fight crime? Well he would appear by all accounts to be an insane person hitting people with a wrench.

[–] nxgn_not_not 8 years ago

here here

quite

gritty is not real

normal is not real

insaine is not real

and yet
what could b more real

Sie haben mich verloren ~ avec la haine

[–] Zombie55 8 years ago

Some of the moments of humour in it are almost Naked Gun-like and Leslie Nielsen-esque, and the fact that apparently trained armed bad guys tend to shoot at him and miss him from only a few centimetres away - how is all of this an example of "reality".

And apparently, there are some vigilantes in real life that would be as equally pissed off at someone butting in line and someone molesting children that at the end, during a confrontation with someone bad, he will utter the line "You don't butt in line" and then the rest of the stuff in the same sentence with utter seriousness?

And all of this is supposed to be realistic?

The greatest trick the Devil has ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist!

[–] hurricanehorton 8 years ago

It's realistic when compared to other super hero movies, I guess. In real life people don't get bitten by radioactive spiders and gain super powers.

It's not realistic in the sense that, if some nutcase just decided to go round attacking criminals, he'd eventually get himself killed or caught by the police. Even if he did manage to survive long enough to save Sarah there's no way he'd just be able to give up and go back to his normal life with no consequences.

But on the other hand, if somebody did decide to become a masked vigilante, it wouldn't be like in Batman. You'd have to be mentally unbalanced, and this film showed this. Also, you were made clear that the guy's actions were morally questionable, even if his intentions were good.

It wasn't necessarily realism in the sense that it could happen in real life, but maybe in comparison to other fictional works featuring super heroes.