First to say, im Colombian so if i screw up with certain words, so bare with me.
A few hours ago, i read CraptainAmerica´s article " Shouldn´t we just be happy" and i realized i had always thought and i never dared to post, because i was i afraid someone would dislike it. Encouraged by the good response that article had, i decided to write this as an extent of that article. ( With all your respect Craptain America).
I have read several times, many fans saying "that movie wasnt realistic" or "that movie is just too realistic for something". According to a dictionary something realistic is " Something that acts in a practical way and adjusts to reality" under that definition NOT ONE CBM IS REALISTIC, you can not use a term in one tense and not in the other. Ill give you that some movies have more grounded to reality, tecnology and enviroment but if you use that description for a movie it should be realistic to in terms of character personality and situation.
In those terms, a REALLY REALISTIC version of a CBM lets take for example, the dark knight would be different in many ways.In a realistic Dark knight, batman and rachel wouldnt had survived from a fall from a window of that height, one of the hundreds of people that were on the ships would have pushed the botton to destroy the other one, the skyhook, batmans armor, the tumbler and the sonar wouldnt be posible, and most importante all the psicology and simbolism managed in the movie could not be done, because in real life those perfect species that stick close to their convitions no matter the situation ( Batmans motivation for doing whats right even though, rachel is dead and experience is pointing to the contrair and The Jokers actions to proof that everyone has a bad side and its corruptable) dont exist.
And this same principle of being "REALISTIC", can be applied to many CBMs. Many of you will say that those characterisic are inherent to CBM characters and thats the reason they do this kinda movies, so its ilogical to say those things because it is part of those fictional characters. Well, that is exactly my point.
And my point is, if i managed to explain it well, that realism is something as fanboys we shouldnt care about, Why? Because EVERY CBM CHARACTER IS FICTION AND AS FICTION THEIR TECNOLOGICAL, FISICAL AND PSICOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS will with no hope, fall under that category. So to sum up, and give the finality of my article, i wanted to give an explanation that would remove "realism" as one of the many things, we CBMers attach to critize movies.
Finally, in my opinion, i dont care about those things, i dont care if its close or not to the source material, cause you know what? I love CBMs so mucho that i just can get enough of seeing different interpretations of the characters that i love, so instead of looking at something and saying is good or bad just be euforic cause you can see in live action a childhood dream, and for most as me a life dream.
Thanks for reading, comments if they are respectful are really appreciated. Im not an excelent writer and i dont know if my arguments were solid enough, but i only want you to meditate about my conclusion and how can you apply that to your future critics. Thanks to CraptainAmerica for posting that article.
Bye guys, Gotta run.