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Michelle Turner said:Folks, have you actually read "War of the Worlds"? Because if you had, the ending wouldn't come as a surprise...
casualotter21 said:Taste is such a subjective thing. Here we are, a few people who clearly enjoy comics, comic tropes, and their adaptations. And yet, it’s so easy to walk away with completely different impressions of the exact same films. I'm quoting Quote : Archangel just because he brought up a whole heap of comic book adaptations:
The First two Batman movies were great for me (especially the second). Both X-Men movies too. I’d love to catch those old Superman films that ABC aired last, probably maybe 10 or 15 years ago. It's a shame. 😢
I could also mention Spider-Man. The first one was actually fun (though not as good as The Dark Knight), and the second was even better.
Constantine was pretty cool to me: given the scale of the story, I was hoping for some kind of horror or perhaps an action-horror. Instead, I got a visual version of The Matrix—a clone where even a scene involving someone getting tossed out of a taxi felt overly stylized. Still, Tilda Swinton as Gabriel was top-tier, and don't even get me started on Rachel Weisz. 🙂
Hellboy was totally entertaining and good. Hellboy is a legend, let's face it! And Karl Ruprecht Kroenen is a legend too. I read the comic and that was fine as well. You could easily make an interesting horror RPG campaign in today's world where players fight against evil Nazi occultists.
Can you believe I haven't seen any of those three films? Nor have I felt like I was missing out much. I suppose that says something about my take on them.
Speaking of those films, I should mention Hulk. I haven't seen that one either. In terms of adaptation quality, well, Hulk was never really an interesting superhero to me.
For me, it was totally mediocre. I gave up watching after about 40 minutes and went to bed. I'm not quite sure why: there wasn't anything in that movie I hadn't seen in other comic adaptations: over-the-top villains, irritating comedic relief, angsty heroes... For some reason, none of it clicked, despite the good idea.
I watched the old version with Dolph Lundgren and it was mostly alright. Except! Except for the scene where The Punisher fights an entire school of ninjas and just tears through them all. You know how? Like, while they're preparing to use their Japanese martial arts nonsense—katanas, karate, and so on—Dolph pulls out a shotgun and just mows them down with a burst. Now THAT is a martial art. 😈
I watched the film with Jay and my buddy in New York and it was terrible to me, though they found it purely entertaining. Much like with Constantine, the issue is likely that as I get older, a solid story becomes more important than special effects. Actually, by that logic, a lot of movies should be bad for me: Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow or Hellboy, for instance. However, those films feel more like lighthearted fun rather than serious cinema, which is why the gaps in characters and plot don't bother me at all. In fact, I accept it as part of the atmosphere. But when Hollywood tries to make an "impressive" and "cool" film where that impressiveness is exhausted by the effects while the story and characters are thrown in the trash, that's when I lose my patience. Special effects are cheap. Good stories and characters are priceless.
I don't know. I swing wildly from one pulpy adaptation to another. The Mummy was great. The Mummy 2 was meh. Conan was great. Conan 2, Red Sonja, and The Scorpion King were either useless or just questionable jokes. Go fuckin' figure.
dejoo said:I was talking about this movie with a friend yesterday, and he claims the story it's based on is actually true?!?!?!
So now I’m asking you all—is the story behind this film real or not...
If it actually happened, I might just need to move off this planet entirely🙂
Regardless, the movie itself feels a bit too brutal for my taste.
Jeremy Bishop5 says:
For me, the best comic book adaptations are Spider-Man and Batman... but there are so many out there that those two are just small outliers, so I’m not expecting much from FF, though Constantine was my biggest disappointment...
I'm with you on Constantine. Honestly, anyone involved in that production deserves to be dragged through the streets. Messing with Alan Moore’s legendary run is nothing short of a sin. They stripped away all the darkness, the cynicism, and the sheer depravity, leaving us with just another generic superhero flick.
Is this really the man who strangled his twin brother with an umbilical cord in the womb? Or the one who cursed his own father in a fit of revenge, ensuring he could never pass into the afterlife? Or the man who tore wings off the angel Gabriel because help wasn't provided when it was needed most, or even engineered a new kind of hell within a prison cell?
Keanu Reeves, you'll be burning in hell for this.😠 😈
Zachary Bennett3 said:It’s not going to work because they messed with Dr. Doom's origin story!!! And that is a cardinal sin!!! What is this cosmic radiation nonsense when everyone knows Dr. Doom is a master of black magic? Why do they insist on tinkering with the comic book classics??? As if having a black Kingpin and Catwoman wasn't enough (Daredevil and Catwoman were probably the worst major studio films of the last few years)... Imagine if Blade had been played by Busey??? Now that would be an actual scandal... I'll watch the movie, but only to see for myself what they've done to Doom...
He doesn't deserve this treatment. He is a super-villain with the greatest plan ever conceived—activating volcanoes on one hemisphere to knock Earth out of orbit, pushing it away from the Sun and triggering a new ice age!!! Luckily, Spider-Man managed to reverse the process and set everything right...
SHOW SOME RESPECT!!!
paranoid said:Evil Dead 😎
