More Superheroes

So over the past few weeks I've watched four X-Men movies, three Spiderman movies and Daredevil. I've also played a Fantastic Four video game for Wii (which I found to be pretty boring). I found X-Men III quite strange, and I'm told from many of my X-men loving friends that it apparently strayed quite a bit from the original stories. I can't really attest to that though as I've yet to actually hold a real X-men comic in my hands. The Spiderman movies, again with the exception of the 3rd, were all enjoyable. Not that I didn't like the third movie, it just seemed a little all over the place. (Not unlike this blog post by the way. Explanation: my internet wasn't working for most of the day, and since I waited until today to post, I am now forced to scramble). Anyway, I could see what Kaplan was saying about Spiderman being a character that teenagers could really identify with. He is the classic geeky guy who seems to all of a sudden change into someone else, welcome puberty! Plus his awkwardness with girls and struggling to earn a buck is typical of the average teenage boy's every day life. Spiderman was certainly a stark contrast to the typical rich, handsome, muscle-bulging superhero that attempts to portray "the perfect man." Daredevil was also a fun movie to watch, I wouldn't call it the best movie ever made, but I did love the story and the idea of the blind lawyer as superhero. I'm glad I picked all these used movies a few weeks ago, they've really come in handy. When you are reading about the Holocaust, you need something else to take your mind off of it before you go to bed, and superhero stories have proven to be quite effective. Thank God for all those Jewish writers and artists without whom we wouldn't have all of these wonderful characters and stories.