Watch The Boys for exactly that. You won’t get that from Disney.

Also the Invincible animated series does it too.

I totally agree with both your comments, but to be fair, they said “movies”.

Maybe season 1 of the boys. It devolves into disgust porn in the later seasons.

I made it to the first episode of season 3. It was just trying way too hard at that point to not be a show anymore but pure shock value

The wild thing is that the shock value was toned down from the comics

Perhaps they are going for a tone of heroic escapism, or fantastical drama over gory and downbeat “realism”.

If you really just want to see heroes maiming people it’s been done. Invincible, The Boys (show and comic). Even back to the 90s there were comics like Stormwatch that centered on the premise of “realistic” consequences of super powers.

Aye, it’s all about what theme you’re exploring or mood that’s being set. We don’t have batman exploding into mist when he fights people who can lift planes/cruise ships with their bare hands, because that’s not the story being told. When the theme is about the consequences of powers, rather than the escapism and being good (the ‘super’ part of superman being his morals and convictions), we get the boys and their (gory) explosions.

The web serial Worm by Wildbow, written like 10-15 years ago maybe, is also a pretty good superhero deconstruction.

I think Hancock had a few instances of that

Never got around to that one, worth it?

Critically panned, across the board, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. It could have done with another couple of rounds of script polishing.

It was two movies Frankensteined into one. The first half is awesome. The second, not so much.

It was a script undirected for 12 years

There’s a deleted scene where Hancock meets a woman at a bar and takes her home. It’s kinda weirdly emotional and totally should’ve been left in the movie imo. Here’s the scene.

It’s not a good movie but it’s a fun watch if you’re not expecting much.

I wanted to like the movie, but drunk will smith just didn’t do it at all for me.

It’s okay, not memorable though. I can’t seems to recall anything from that movie but i do remember i have fun watching it.

I remember liking half of it. Oddly enough, I can’t remember whether I liked the first half where he’s a drunken bum, or the second half, where he’s more together, but I specifically remember thinking half of it was decent at least.

So yeah, I agree that it’s not very memorable.

Have it on in the background.

I never fully understood Katherine Heigl’s character and her point in the plot.

It’s decent. Not great.

The first 2/3rds of the movie is really good. The last part is pretty bad. Overall I enjoyed it.

They cut all such scenes and pasted into The Boys, in a Mark Twain style “Sprinkle these around as you see fit!”.

Exploring the failed attempts and the real struggles of being a hero.

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Super hero movies should have more scenes of them accidentally maiming people just because of the sheer amount of power they weild.

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