im not re-visioning squat.. the GOTG roster team in the comics was getting some very good praise prior to the announcement. Do you honestly think we would have gotten a GOTG movie if the comic readers weren't liking or finding that team popular?
sorry, i can't get over how terrible these ideas are..
We got a GotG movie because Kevin Fiege thought the concept had potential and could work as a summer blockbuster, not because the team was popular. The GotG comics had dismal sales prior to the announcement of the movie, and they were always seen as a niche group (kinda like where characters like Agents of Atlas or the monster version of the Howling Commandos are right now). The same thing with the Inhumans and Jessica Jones.
Nobody was clamoring for an Inhuman movie before, and then the announcement came, and Marvel is pushing them like never before. Fiege knew that the Inhumans was a franchise that had the potential to be greater. Look at Jessica Jones. Many comic fans wrote her off for years because all she did was stand in the background carrying Luke's baby (with many of those fans saying JJ was stagnating Luke as a character). Nobody was asking for a Jessica Jones show. Lo and behold, Marvel put out a Jessica Jones show because they knew she could bring something new to the table, and now fan perception to the character has changed.
for the last time.. NO THEY ARE NOT... THE GENERAL AUDIENCE IS NOT MADE UP OF UNCULTURED, DIM WITTED BUFFOONS...
if anything is more evident than ever, fanboys, geeks, nerds.. etc.. are constantly becoming more and more main stream and popular. Hollywood is banking more and more on nostalgia more than ever.
the new TMNT movie is doing that in spades with Beebop, Rocksteady, Casey Jones, Baxter Stockman, and Krang...
do you really think the stereotypical "general audience" you speak of cares about these characters? or are hyping it? no... that's the people who grew up with the cartoons... all the generations who grew up with the cartoons.
EVERY generation has grown up with a spider-man cartoon if you're under the age of 50...
not everyone who grew up watching a cartoon stuck with the books, or bought the toys.. but they would remember the characters even if they weren't ever invested in them.. and just refer to someone like mysterio as the "magic fishbowl headed guy". And at this point in time this is likely the mass majority who make up the so called "general audience" ARE these people.
Man-Bat and Clayface have never appeared in a bat-man movie so far... and you can sure as bet majority of the audience seeing that batman film will have some familiarity even if just knowledge by name or look...
LMFAO. I think you are
vastly overestimating the general audience's investment in these characters. Most of them don't give a **** about a villain that they saw on a cartoon they grew up on watching as a kid. If anything, most of them only care about the heroes, because those are the faces of the franchise. Only A-list villains like Joker, Harley Quinn and Catwoman have broken that barrier because of how mainstream they are and how much media exposure they've gotten on all levels. To the average non-comic book reading moviegoer, Mysterio is just as unknown as any other character.
And not knowing comic book characters doesn't make them uncultured, dim-witted buffoons...
I don't plan to talk about him anymore, because he's not one of my top picks for the villain. But I just get a little irritated when people start insulting the creative ideas of myself and other members.
Yeah, I defiently agree with you there. I never said I want Prowler to be
the villain, but just
a villain that could potentially be used. I think Prowler could be a really nice parallel to Peter Parker, and a bad guy who is manipulated by a bigger villain. I'm not against Mysterio at all, and actually think he'd be a great choice (certainly better than Vulture), but that doesn't prevent me from exploring other avenues.