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Trying again to talk a friend into watching Doom Patrol and I think the single biggest reason it's such a huge success is because it focuses itself almost entirely upon engendering empathy for its characters
It manages to get across the idea that these characters have done very bad things and are the primary reasons why they're in the spot that their in without saying that they deserve these fates or cannot be absolved, which is a really fine line to tread.
That it does this while still being really funny and weird and tackling issues mainstream comic book adaptations would never touch in million years (disability, mental illness, just even the idea of gay superheros) is pretty miraculous
And that is does *those* things without relying on self-referential jokes or endless pop culture references and also has the best cast and best collective performances in the medium is like a once in a generation perfect storm. And nobody's watching.
It's a Big 2 live action comic book adaptation that manages to be about Serious Issues without being po faced or devolving into rank cynicism and does not in any condescend or belittle it's extremely silly source material. Feels like it was an accident or a prank.
Two more things
- the budget is low enough to force them into getting really creative with masks and prosthetics, which means it looks good
- they used Cyborg, a character who does not mesh with the comic book Doom Patrol, and he's about 100,000x better than then Snyder version
- the budget is low enough to force them into getting really creative with masks and prosthetics, which means it looks good
- they used Cyborg, a character who does not mesh with the comic book Doom Patrol, and he's about 100,000x better than then Snyder version
