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Yea, they always bend the rules to a certain extent. Sometimes they justify it with a little revision of the story (Doom's powers coming from the radiation in the movie, for instance) but it hurts comic book readers. I mean, yes, it's all for entertainment and should be judged as a movie and not as a comic book turned into movie, but it's easier said than done.

Let me think. I am like that with video games turned into movies. I HATED Resident Evil:Apocalypse. I was really looking forward to watching Nemesis, but he wasn't even that cool in the movie.

So, watching Superman Returns, is another example. I am pretty sure Lex Luthur is not the only villain out there that has to confront Superman. That got old ten years ago.

Finally Fantastic Four was cast wrong. I would NEVER have given the role to Jessica Alba. Her acting was not good enough in my book. Best to have given it to a no name actress.

I can blarg and blarg about this for pages. I'm a girl, I have that gift. domokun

OMG! YES! In a way, I they would tiwst up the whole phoenix thing. It was a bit sad, to me, that they did that. I guess the public is not ready to have Shi' Ar Technology enter the media to try to destroy her.



Advent Children rocked. Period. YOu don't have to be a Final Fantasy fan to enjoy it.

Just want to keep movies simple enough to catch the attention of non comic book fans/video game fans. It's understandable, but man. Even they know something's not right.

I must agree. I was a fan of the Joker and the storyline between the Penguin and Catwoman. I can respect where Dr. Freeze comes from, but still it's a little iffy. I still think Uma Therman had something going. I wouldn't say it was the right sex appeal for the movie, but it was something.

They could have just focused on the actual origins and if they wanted to tweak certain things, then that is fine. But not major things. It just gets depressing. It doesn't take a comic book fan/video game fan to realize this. I mean, I loved x-Men 3, don't get me wrong; but I knew somethign was wrong wth it coming from an entertainment point of view and not an X-Men fan point of view.

Basically, it comes down to directors and producers having to do their homework right and using what works best. I am pretty sure that they will not get sued since a comic book company would hold some royalities over the movie.

.......and I rambled again. Sorry. sweatdrop

:does a little pouting stance:

....I guess....


But they should still transfer it over a little more....WAY better than how they do it now.

I would think comic book industries would use movie companies to lure people into the comic book world and gain more readers/fans.

My cousin saw the Spidey movies and then started reading the comics.

Every week he'd ask me "but why doesn't he just use the webs in his wrists?".
That's what the movies are doing to the people who see them, they skew the basics of a character and then when they come to read the comics, they're not as good as the movies, comics aren't all action, and the movies don't have to be either.

If the makers were more concerned with the fans who buy the comics, the people who have been fans of the characters long before the movies, and took note of the fact that we like them without stupid alterations and had faith in the fact that, ridiculous history alterations or not, the characters and stories have always been good enough to pull in massive crowds. Hell, Spidey alone sells enough comics worldwide to feed Africa for the next millenia, why don't they just think "hmmmm.. Stan Lee sold these guys to millions let's not go messing up a formula that's worked for 60 years".

And the whole "they wouldn't be entertained" thing: they showed the designs Spidey went through to create his costume in the first movie, surely some of the massive minute and a half that they spent showing him colouring in, could've also been spent in front of some test tubes creating web fluid?