Where Comic Books meet “Conservative Film Criticism” February 17, 2009
Posted by Evil Bender in Comics, Film, Humor, arts and culture, wingnuts.trackback
Watchmen SPOILERS below the fold.
This comment at Yglesias’ place just Won The Internet:
I can’t wait to hear about how “Watchmen” is a conservative movie. It is! If the plot follows the comic book, the main villain is a (SPOILERS) East Coast liberal elite intellectual using illegal aliens* for a social engineering plot, the U.S. used overwhelming force in the Vietnam War and won it, and the heroes are a small businessman and genius inventor who withdrew from the world when regulations got too restrictive, and a vigilante with a strongly defined sense of right and wrong who does not, no matter what anyone says about him, have sexual hangups.
* Not the kind of illegal aliens conservatives are generally concerned with, but maybe it’s a metaphor or something.
See? ANY film can be conservative if you are creative enough at re-casting some details, ignoring others, and claiming every good thing is, by definition, conservative.
Also, Dr. Manhattan is proof of the existence of gods.