> actually i liked Daredevil. Might have been because I had > low expectations > going into it (had heard it sucked, and I don't really > care much for Ben > Affleck)...but I wasn't terribly disappointed. It > certainly wasn't a > Spider-Man or X-Men...but there were enough aspects of it > that I liked that > I was able to overlook a lot of the suckage (noticed > it...but was able to > overlook it).
I've had some pretty serious problems with the interpretation of all of the comic books films that have come out with the exception of the Punisher (in spite of some general silliness in the story), Elektra, Judge Dredd and the Road To Purdition (none of which I read), and Sin City (which appeared to be pretty damn close to verbatim (I was impressed -- plus I think Elijah Wood was good casting even though he didn't say anything). Spider Man -- the "Ultimate Spider Man" series the movies have been based on basically sucked ass all the way around imo. They made gratuitous and stupid changes to the character (biological webbing -- and the loss of powers in the 2nd film). Mighty Morphin' Power Goblin -- I've heard people say the original costume wouldn't have worked in a movie -- I'm not necessarily so certain of that, but still... even if it wasn't _exact_ they could have avoided making the costume look like something from Saban. Daredevil -- Really should have been titled DareBatMan... Even within the individual film is completely inconsistent, because he has these conversations with his partner where the partner is saying that they're dying financially and they can't afford to continue doing all their pro-bono work ... Meanwhile Matt Murdock is sleeping in a million dollar sensory deprivation chamber which is a near replica of "the Bat Cave". What pro-bono client gave him all that? (This is a mistake the Spider Man movies have fortunately avoided.) The visualization of his hearing was -- gratuitous, silly and unfortunate, but forgivable in comparison. Imo making the King Pin a "minority" (black or otherwise) also significantly changes the story -- it removes much of the "edge" as the KingPin is supposed to be representative of the upper 1% (granted criminal) who are continually fucking-over the remaining 99% of the population. I think it has more "bite" when he's a white guy (historically in power -- white slave owners, etc) instead of being a member of a "minority" who have been historically opressed in this country. The tattoo on bullseye's forehead was silly, though forgivable I think as the character has always been presented as being a stark-raving lunatic. I do wish they'd used something marginally larger than a paperclip tho (just for gp suspension of disbelief). X-Men -- Lady Deathstrike - great character with history and story that could have been used in the movies reduced to a few flashy visuals and no dialog before being killed off. Rogue - got the stripe of white hair from Captain Marvel (who she killed, which is why the powers stayed with her) after having been the adopted daughter of Mystique (who of course trained her as a member of the "Brotherhood of Evil Mutants") - also got the ability to fly and superhuman strength and "invulnerability" from same. Mystique - great character again with lots of history reduced to a cronie for Magneto because he's "cool", slick, stylish costume never seen in the films (forgiveable, but still -- it was nice). Between Mystique and Rogue they managed to rob themselves (and the audience) _again_ of loads of plot and story for films, actually, much moreso than with Lady Deathstrike. BatMan -- BatMan Forever seems to have been the best of them thus far, although I think they cheated themselves out of a much better Edward Nigma character by making him more like the gags in the comedy show from the 50's than the original character who was calm and collected -- not sure if Jim Carey would have been the best casting if they'd gone the other way tho -- maybe Alan Rickman who played Hans Gruber in Die Hard, the voice of God in Dogma or Snape in the Harry Potter films... prior to Kilmer they were decent but not great. After Kilmer they became absolutely stupid -- not even worth mentioning... I wonder if they really were trying to reproduce the 50's TV series with things like Bat Ice-Skates (can we get some Bat Figure Skating in while we're saving the day do you think?). Mr. Freeze in general -- WTF? The whole idea behind the story of Mr. Freeze was that he was a cold, calculating, nearly emotionless hard-ass because his sole purpose in life was to restore his wife, the only person he ever had feelings for. So in the film there he is in his frozen hideout, surrounded by women in furry bikinis, give me a break! You had a _great_ story and you threw it away for nothing -- for a few seconds oftits-and-ass and a few schlock stale jokes that were old circa 1960. I'm hoping BatMan Begins won't be such an abortion. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the films, but the film-makers make huge numbers of bad mistakes. I'm looking forward to the Fantastic Four ... and I'd love to see a DeadPool movie based on the first 26 issues, in spite of knowing they'd butcher the hell out of it. Assuming they used makeup, I wouldn't even mind them casting Tom Cruise (he's consistently done a good job with roles that everyone has objected to him being cast in like the Last Samurai -- and there was an issue after the first 26 in which Loki made him look like Cruise and he spent the next couple issues taking guns, knives, hacksaws, blowtorches, etc. to his face to try and get the scars back without any success, so there's an "in joke" reason to cast him. Who knows, they could make a sequel that featured some of the better comedy material from the subsequent issues. Who wouldn't pay to see Tom Cruise taking a hacksaw to his own face? :) s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://macromedia.breezecentral.com/p49777853/ http://www.sys-con.com/author/?id=4806 http://www.fusiontap.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:152966 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
