briskeagle3 said:Super Ted... I mean, remember how they found an error in his fur during production—so they just tossed him out? It’s wild—then some alien entity grants him a new life... and Mother Nature steps in to give him superpowers, turning Ted into Super Ted
Does anyone else actually remember that cartoon? Honestly, they could probably turn it into a movie today...
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Of course I remember. 😁 It was that same era—shows like He-Man, Ewoks (I used to collect all the trading cards), Superman, Super Ted, Flying Bear, Charles Schulz... they were all incredible shows. They were twenty times better than the junk they pump out for kids today. But seeing them try to turn these things into movies now? It really shows how far Hollywood has fallen.
Besides, isn't Superman a British cartoon? If they’re hell-bent on adapting something European, I find it hard to believe they'll get it right. A Superman movie would only work if it were a pure comedy—that's it. If they truly wanted to adapt European material, they should have gone with Marvel superhero characters from those classic comics; those stories are fifty times better than the American Marvel and DC crap (with a few exceptions, of course).
Man, just imagine a legitimate, Blockbuster Superman production for something like Dylan Dog (a real Dylan Dog, not the garbage we've seen)... or maybe Martin Mystere. If they actually adapted Mystere properly, he could rival Indiana Jones based on the source material... or Nathaniel Never, etc...
But we won't see that happen. Americans just don't "get" those kinds of stories. To them, any comic that requires actual brainpower feels foreign. Imagine an American studio trying to adapt a hero who doesn't have some supernatural power, a mutant, or a Kryptonian (exceptions like Batman, obviously) or some meathead like Captain America—characters that only pass as heroes because of how superficial the nation is. And we’re stuck on the outside looking in, because let’s face it: we’ll never see our European comics hit the big screen since there isn't anyone in Europe with the massive industry clout that Hollywood possesses.
