Actually, I agree with you on this, at least to a large extent. Fights with big scary monsters are one of my least favorite classic traits of superhero stories. I'm far more interested in the characters themselves. That's what I really disliked about the first couple seasons of JUSTICE LEAGUE: the characters never took off their masks. They were just superheroes fighting bad guys and big scary monsters, nothing more. Thankfully, the show vastly improved.
At least with NEW FRONTIER (where the monster was easily my least favorite part of the otherwise-wonderful comic, which is far more fleshed out than the film), Darwyn Cooke created the big scary monster as a metaphor for communism, in that it's a big faceless threat. He thought the metaphor would be too obvious, when instead no one got it at all.
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Date: 2008-05-27 10:46 pm (UTC)At least with NEW FRONTIER (where the monster was easily my least favorite part of the otherwise-wonderful comic, which is far more fleshed out than the film), Darwyn Cooke created the big scary monster as a metaphor for communism, in that it's a big faceless threat. He thought the metaphor would be too obvious, when instead no one got it at all.