The Cape

[Catman]

I don't know why there's so much cynicism here, all the way down to this guy's cape being a liability in realistic fights. He's a superhero, that's the point.

I think people are just upset because this is a throwback to the more fantasy-oriented superhero movies/shows of the `90s. Nowadays, people want the serious, realistic, Nolan-esque stuff.

I remember people complaining about Batman: The Brave and the Bold being an adaptation of the campy `50-`60s comics and, yet, it turned out to be a popular show when folks gave it a chance.

That's how fanboys are.

 

[Morg]

There is no Life on Mars US

Was, got canceled

 

[Spidey-Bat]

I think people are just upset because this is a throwback to the more fantasy-oriented superhero movies/shows of the `90s. Nowadays, people want the serious, realistic, Nolan-esque stuff.

I remember people complaining about Batman: The Brave and the Bold being an adaptation of the campy `50-`60s comics and, yet, it turned out to be a popular show when folks gave it a chance.

That's how fanboys are.

B:TBATB is done well though. I don't think you can say the same about The Cape.

 

[BlackLantern]

IGN.com Review - 3 (out of 10) Awful

and IGN seems to like a lot of things, so for them to not like it says quite a bit...to me anyway

 

[Prison Mike]

Based on BL's sig, I'll be killing a lot of kittens.

 

[Lord Valumart]

I think people are just upset because this is a throwback to the more fantasy-oriented superhero movies/shows of the `90s. Nowadays, people want the serious, realistic, Nolan-esque stuff.

I never got why these things should be serious and realistic. It's a world where people run around at night dressed up, why should it be realistic?

Was, got canceled

There was no Life on Mars US.

 

[Prison Mike]

There was an American remake of the BBC series.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0787490/

 

[BlackLantern]

I never got why these things should be serious and realistic. It's a world where people run around at night dressed up, why should it be realistic?

not serious or realistic...just know what you are...

I love 'The Phantom' (the one with Billy Zane) because it's a movie that knows what it is...it knows its full of cheese and doesn't try to be anything more than that....same thing with 'The Shadow', hell I even liked 'Judge Dredd'

'The Cape' seems to want to be taken seriously, but looks ridiculous in doing so

 

[BlackLantern]

There was an American remake of the BBC series.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0787490/

LIES

 

[Morg]

LIES

which it was, it was a crappy one

 

[Lord Valumart]

There was an American remake of the BBC series.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0787490/

There was no Life on Mars US

not serious or realistic...just know what you are...

I love 'The Phantom' (the one with Billy Zane) because it's a movie that knows what it is...it knows its full of cheese and doesn't try to be anything more than that....same thing with 'The Shadow', hell I even liked 'Judge Dredd'

'The Cape' seems to want to be taken seriously, but looks ridiculous in doing so

I'm not sure, it might be ok. Sure the older films knew they were cheese and didn't try to be anything else, but while this is try to be more it may be able to be more like the old style shows updated. Cheese for a new generation.

 

[BlackLantern]

the saturday night syfy channel movies have cheese covered...them and The Asylum...Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus

 

[kguillou]

I have a feeling this is going to be one of those "Last Airbender" kind of things where tons of people will tune in just to see how bad it is from all this bad word of mouth.

 

[SuperAl]

Metacritic has it at an overall 56. Ill give it a go, some papers like chicago sun times gave it 75. The trailers all seems really cool, kinda surprised its gettin bad reviews.

 

[The Question]

I'm not hating it, but the pacing is way too fast. A lot of concepts that they should've taken more time to develope.

 

[kguillou]

"WE ARE THE CARNIVAL OF CRIME!". I nearly died of laughter.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

It reminds me of the Jokerz from Batman Beyond. Lol.

 

[Donut]

So The Crime people are Evil Clowns

 

[TwilightPro101]

I'm not hating it, but the pacing is way too fast. A lot of concepts that they should've taken more time to develope.

I'm feeling exactly the same way about it.

 

[BillPardy]

I'm not hating it, but the pacing is way too fast. A lot of concepts that they should've taken more time to develope.

I'm not sure if I hate it or love it... the pacing is driving me nuts though. Its going so fast that I feel like I'm missing something.

 

[SuperAl]

pacing is way too damn fast. also dont get why they are making the cape cgi the majority of the time.

 

[Specter313]

Yeah, the pacing's fast, and that's really the only problem I have with it so far, but maybe this was the creators hearing all the complaints of other shows moving too slow, which is rather justified as it has been the death of many shows.

 

[luke1234]

this is pretty bad. Has the pacing of Birds of Prey.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

I see far too much Batman influence.

The Carnival Crime ring reminds me of the Jokerz. Orwell is essentially a version of Oracle that can walk. The Cape pretty much reminds me of Batman/Moon Knight.

 

[Donut]

My brother just said that its pretty much the light version of Batman