Joe Talks Comic Book Movies with C.K. Chin

But I'm also very child-like in that way because I think a lot of that kind of got taken away a little bit. So I still enjoy cartoons and Marvel movies or whatever it is and these type of things, these escapism stuff that I feel like I just never really kind of fully got out of the way. And so it's like you grew up fast and now it's like you're making up for lost time and doing that kind of stuff. I started embracing them again. I thought they were foolish like comic books and comic book movies and stuff like that. I thought they were foolish for a while and then I got as I got older I go, but wait a minute. I like those and then I started embracing them as I got in I guess into my 30s. Yeah, I think I think you should have a better understanding and again not to get so super deep on superhero movies, but I think there is something that that really kind of shines a mirror on people too. If you have this blank canvas and be able to create something as to whatever you wanted and then you can create this person. It's kind of interesting. I remember I forgot there's an essay going around or something that's talking about like Superman for instance and like how there is some interesting psychology behind it. The idea that everyone on Krypton is Superman and his alter ego is actually a human as opposed to every other superhero alter ego is their superhero, but he actually has to pretend to be normal because he just himself is you know, whatever. It's like this weird kind of thing and I remember reading that kind of stuff and thinking about that and thinking about how like most recently I think Spider-Man they finally cast a young young guy as opposed to like a grown man and there was like what kind of stuff would you go through as a teenager that all of a sudden discovered that you have all this stuff going on and they did a good job in the most recent movies about him going to high school and telling his best friend and getting caught about it and getting all this stuff. I feel like there's like as an adult watching it is not the same. I think I really enjoy it on a different level, but it's cool. Yeah, well, it's just superhero movies. They're just fun. That's all it is. That's right. It's just fun. It's junk food. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Junk food for the mind. Yeah, I think that there's a time like when people would come by and say this didn't have any. You're arguing the realism like the people who pick it apart like that. It's just kind of they can do whatever they want. Like if that's what you want to do with a superhero movie, go back and do that about Bugs Bunny 2 stupid. That's right. Exactly exactly. Oh, he got shot in the face. You could totally not survive that. But yeah, exactly. He's talking rabbit, bro. Yeah, exactly. None of it makes any sense. You know what I watched the other day that I haven't seen in a long time. The Watchmen. Yes, that's a fucked up movie. Yeah, but that's there's I mean that is so well written and especially the new it there. Have you said you watch the series? The TV? No. I was watching the series for a little but Dr. Manhattan's bullshit. Like Dr. Manhattan's supposed to be a glowing nuclear blue guy with a giant dick and all of a sudden he's a regular guy. Right. I was like what is this nonsense? Right. That's like if the Hulk was just a guy who like went to CrossFit. Wait, wait, wait. In the HBO series? Yes. Yeah, I mean so. Bro, he's supposed to be super jacked with a giant dick. That's true. Okay, that's Dr. Manhattan. That's right. He's supposed to be able to like time travel and do whatever he wants. Yeah, go to other planets and shit. He seems way too normal. Yeah. Let me see what he looks like. Pull up what he looks like. Because the one in the Watchmen the movie like it looks like what you'd expect a god to look like. He's got the crazy white eyes. He's almost like animated. Where's everybody else in this show is you know basically just a person with superpowers. For sure and some of them don't even have superpowers and I think that that's that's again that's one of those things where living in a world. How was it? What is that? Yeah, look at him. Get the fuck out of here. How is that Dr. Manhattan? That's ridiculous. The real Dr. Manhattan in the movie is like a perfect specimen. He's like a god. He glows and then this other one is just like a dude with makeup on. Like they just got lazy. Like I don't understand it. There's a what is the oh my god I can't I'm blanking on it. Look at him. Look at that. That's not it. That's not it. That's a cost. That's just some guys for taking out a cop or something. Is that what it is? Thank god. I throw up in my mouth. Let himself go. It just I just watched it for a little bit and I was like I don't know. But it is it is more raw. I think that the when you're talking about a show or move that kind of stuff when you start to kind of blend these superhero situations into real life like people aren't going to be cool with everything and they're not all going to be cool. You know like that's the thing I think there's there been a couple you dystopian type of things where what if Superman was bad. He decided to do terrible shit. It's like we what could we do. Well that's the thing about the watchman right like the comedian is a terrible person in the watchman. Yeah. The guy with the mustache and the cigar. He's fucking horrible horrible. He's a murderer. Yeah. And that he's a superhero. Right. It's very yeah very conflicted. Yeah the power. Yeah. Absolute power corrupts absolutely that type of thought process right. What is the what's that move that the series the guy that come out same similar situation where it's a superhero story and it's about the same thing about these superheroes like Dr. no sorry Mr. something. I'm blanking on it but but they basically go follow these superheroes that just aren't good people. I know what you're talking about. Yeah the boys the boys the boys watch that right good. It's good. I thought it was like a watchman watchman rip off. You can kind of see it that way but it's obviously it's just very well written. I'm gonna say it that way. Yeah. Yeah. You can see it that way. But it's like when you make evil superheroes like this. But it's it's really it is true. I mean if you had if you gave somebody ridiculous amount of power or whatever it is. Yeah. You could probably expect that person to just decide to choose pure. Right. That's what we have what right now with the government. Yeah give a lot of power. Yeah exactly. It's a it's a weird time for that. Watch the entire episode for free only on Spotify.