Hollywood's Superhero Success/Failure Ratio

[returntovoid]

Because it's not so goody-good..? Sure, it's fun. A bit of fun. But..

Well, I liked The Incredible Hulk more than Iron Man.

 

[batpawn]

The Graphic novel was nothing special. The movie said what the graphic novel couldn't have, and Lees interpretation of the Crow was miles above the 80's hairband personification of the comics Crow...

but the movie was something special? besides the goth/punk look, it was - in the end of the day - just your regular revenge movie. something i didn't felt in the graphic novel, even though that the revenge theme is even more present there. the novel just got so much more heart and energy to it, which the film seriously lacked. brandon lee's interpretation was just "I'm back and I take revenge", something that was a huge far cry from the comic eric.

While his mission was still clear in the comic, Eric began to enjoy what he does, turning in the end to the monsters he is hunting and confronting himself in a tragic turn of pace. in the movie, eric is a hero and the bad guys are... well... bad. not so in the comic, where you can understand eric's motives but NEVER sympathise with him or comprehend the way he does his mission. Even the bad guys are suprisingly layerd, especially fanboy. In the movie, he was just your everyday-junkie, stupid, repetitive, ready to kill. the comic fanboy began to understand what he did, while he can't feel sorry for it since he is just "a monster deep from the inside", he realises his doings and the doings of his fellow mates. Starting not only to feel eric, but to sympathise with him. Seeing something in eric that the reader can't see. The force of nature.

What I REALLY disliked about the movie was the fact that it seriously tried to explain the murder of eric and shelly. And don't get me started with the "big plan to destroy detroid" and the fact that it suddenly changed from a revenge to a superhero movie. Yeah, I like the movie very much, but the ending was just not necessary and seems so clichéd (and that really means something in a movie that is built upon an already clichéd story!). I agree with you, the movie said what the novel couldn't have. But that doesn't mean what's said is important to tell. The movie felt just so much like... fantasy... magic. While the comic was pretty psychological, down to earth so to speak but still filled with so much mythical and spiritual pathos.

Let's face it, James O'Barr isn't the best author in the world, I'm not even saying that he is a very good story-teller. But the comic was a force of nature, a package of hate which is suprisingly layerd. There is much more to it than your "typical revenge" story if you just TRY to read between the lines. In the end, that's just my opinion. But I love the novel and can't understand why it is so much overlooked.

 

[Wiseman]

I love how he starts out this thread by claiming which films are successes and which are failures like it's fact. Then when he gets called on it he says that it's his thread and to start your own if you don't like his opinions......................this thread blows