From an antique store in South Jersey. For me personally I absolutely loved the Flintstones but I don’t ever remember them being called the Flinstones. But I do know the changes are real and not that bad memories BS.
Growing up, in the 80s, I had a very good friend who I met at age 14 and he lived in a trailer park with his mother, grandmother and two no good brothers who he shared one single bedroom with. His father was never part of his life, and he had never met him. His mom, for some reason, told him that his father had r—-ed her and that’s why he was born. She was a good person who deeply loved him and whom he truly loved, but I question her judgment in telling him that.
I knew him till I was in my mid 30s and he was a deeply flawed person when it came to women and loyalty to his girlfriends but he had a lot of good character traits too. He got those character traits, he told me, by reading Captain America. He said that Captain America became his father figure for life. He wanted to do everything Captain America did and respond to situations the way Captain America did. This is what superheroes used to be. Someone to look up to and strive to be like. As corny as it is for a lot of people, it gave them something to aspire to.
My question is simply this. Do you think this Supergirl movie and for that matter any superhero movie would do better in the box office if Hollywood, and of course the comic writers themselves, would actually make superheroes that have good virtues and are not antiheroes. Who are good people who do the right things in the right situations at all times. People who we want to be like morally. Is there a market for this?
I love a good anti-hero as much as the next person. But it just seems that antiheroes are all we ever get anymore. Would this Supergirl movie had done better if she was something that young girls can look up to and want to be. She can still be strong and independent but she doesn’t have to be also so deeply flawed.
I’m not saying it would’ve been more successful or a better movie. I’m just simply asking. Is there room for actual heroes and not antiheroes anymore?