Movies of comics - good or bad?

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Movies of comics - good or bad?
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i am wolf the noob lol	Nov 24 2012, 12:42 PM Post #1
Posts: 855 Group: Member Member #8,599 Joined: November 23, 2012 Gender Male Country United States Favourite Anime DBZ, Welcome to the N.H.K., Death Note What Browser do you use? Google Chrome Favourite Manga Gantz	Hey...I just wanna know what others think of it. I don't think most of the movies are bad, but it kinda annoys me how people suddenly start talking about it. Like, people that never read a comic before and never gave a ___ about Iron Man or Thor suddenly talk about them just because there was The Avengers movie. So many girls that said that they don't like comics now post stuff about it on FB...it's a little bit annoying me how some things are so mainstream. Another example. No one (of the people that don't read comics) knew about Green Lantern before. There was a movie, now they do. Same for Captain America. Last example...when I google Bruce Wayne...I wanna see picture results of Bruce Wayne, not an actor that portrayed him in a movie?!



Auld-Dog	Nov 24 2012, 03:38 PM Post #2
Posts: 375 Group: Member Member #7,334 Joined: February 18, 2012	Interesting topic. I think the movies have helped put unknowns into the mainstream, stuff like Marvel and DC, like the heroes you have mentioned who otherwise people wouldn't have had a care about but now are aware of them and may want to find out more about them. I think it can help in that sense. Comic series like Watchmen, or Hellyboy can put them into a more into the limelight than they would sitting on a magazine shelf in a shop. I lked the Kick-Ass movie, but it doesnt hold a candle to the graphic novel. Its more gritty and real than the movie and doesn't get overly far-fetched (jetpacks and gattling machine guns anyone?!) with a more fleshed out story (Big Daddy has a tragic past than one in the movie, more sad/pathetic as a character). I was scratching my head when Kick-Ass has on the jetpack and mows down the mobster characters in the building with the gatling guns on either shoulder (how he doesnt go deaf is beyond me...). It goes against the character of the movie, the whole point is that he upholds and believes in the hero code: to never kill the villian. Sure he can smash his face in with a weighted stick, but never kill. Also things don't work out for him with the ladies and if anything, he gets a really bad rep as a wierdo pervert (complete misunderstanding but it holds more true to life i think). Blade and Spider-Man and X-Men movies really did lift the bar and put super heroes into the movie limelight and prove that they can be done really well, appealing to a wide audience and generating much interest into the lore of each respective character. I think movies are great for comics. Sometimes though they are not done overly well though (DragonBall Evolution comes to mind) and can knock back popular known series back bigtime.
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i am wolf the noob lol	Nov 24 2012, 04:08 PM Post #3
Posts: 855 Group: Member Member #8,599 Joined: November 23, 2012 Gender Male Country United States Favourite Anime DBZ, Welcome to the N.H.K., Death Note What Browser do you use? Google Chrome Favourite Manga Gantz	I know what you mean. It helps, to get people to know different characters, but what I also mean is that the people get a limited view on it. If you ask someone that only saw the movies of Batman, they will say "Oh yeah, with Joker and Bane" I know people that think that Joker and Bane (maybe even Two-Face, The Penguin and Poison Ivy) are the only villains that exist...the Batman games (Arkham Asylum/City) really gave much information about everyone. With Spiderman, most people will only know the Green Goblin and Doc Oc...I know movies can't give you full information in that time limit, but they never try. The Sequels could more go into details of the comics, but it still always stays very plain. I know they wanna make money, but they could try to satisfy the fans, not just use a trademark and thinks that all they need (DB Evolution, lol). But like I said, some movies are good. The Dark Kight rises spoiler Spoiler: click to toggle I haven't watched the movie yet and I don't really think I want to, but I already heard that Batman dies in it...I didn't actually look if it's 100% true, but I just wanna say something to that: I heard people saying like "omg batman died" and stuff like that...it's nothing new for a superhero to die...I saw Batman die before already...they make it such a big deal...



Auld-Dog	Nov 24 2012, 09:24 PM Post #4
Posts: 375 Group: Member Member #7,334 Joined: February 18, 2012	Ah, now thats another good point. Limited views can be annoying too when it takes away from the actual source material. Juggernaut from X-Men3 Last Stand for really painful to watch. ie Spider-Man (remember that all important hiphen between the 'Spider' and 'Man'). They keep it fairly accurate, geeky intelliegent teen character who is bitten by a 'radioactive spider' and somehow his DNA changes enough that now he has super human strength, amazing reflexes and flexibility, a 'spider-sense' and can stick to almost any surface with any part of his body. But the all important factor that they didn't do in the Sam Raimi directed Spider-Man movies was the web-shooters, they create that it is a natural adaption that comes from his wrists as opposed to wrist technology and 'web-cartridges' that he somehow creates. In the new Spider-Man though, with Andy Garfield, they reimagine Spider-Man again and give him the web shooters. I think it must be great for people who are only introduced to things like Spider-Man in the movies and then go on to find out more and discover this whole mythos about the character that goes back for years, and more often than not is many, many times better than the media that portayed that character. lol the only issue i think they have have though is, where do you start from?? Spider-Man has been restarted so many times over, with multiple incarnations, that do have similiar origins but after this the tale changes and what happens to Peter Parker takes different routes. Note im just using Spider-Man as an easy reference as this is more not the case with other superheroes, Superman, Batman, Iron Man, Thor, Blade (jeez, have you seen the old 70's afro version-wow), X-Men etc etc. Swamp Thing was a character i was unfamiliar with till i saw the movie, well one of the 90's version, by todays standards it was a naff film by far, but for me growing up it got me curious about the character and any time i saw it i wanted to know more about him. Seeing him fight these crazy mutated monsters, while still trying to live as a man but is forever trapped as an elemental 'thing' of nature.
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* -Zero-	Nov 24 2012, 11:41 PM Post #5
Black Knight Posts: 8,697 Group: Retired Staff Member #1,874 Joined: November 5, 2006 Favourite Anime Code Geass, Death Note, Dragonball/Z	I think comic book based movies are awesome. I really didn't know much about Thor, Iron-Man, Captain America before hand. However after watching the movies and having loved the movies it actually made me want to find out more about the characters. And I know there are still a lot of things for me to learn about them but as movies bring up things or I hear things, I research them to see if its something that's in the comics to see what they took from there. For example the villain for Iron-Man 2 I read that it was a mix of Whiplash with another Iron-Man villain that I don't quite remember the name of. I generally live comic book based movies. I've loved all Spider-Mans, liking Garfield's incarnation more, the marvel cinematic universe, Batman movies. I do however understand some people get ignorant. Like thinking Mary Jane was always Peter's first live when in fact it was Betty at the Daily Bugle, although Betty was short lived so one can argue that it was Gwen
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i am wolf the noob lol	Nov 25 2012, 12:19 AM Post #6
Posts: 855 Group: Member Member #8,599 Joined: November 23, 2012 Gender Male Country United States Favourite Anime DBZ, Welcome to the N.H.K., Death Note What Browser do you use? Google Chrome Favourite Manga Gantz	I agree with both of you...Like I said, I really liked many Batman movies, Spiderman and others. And sometimes they do make the movies good too. I guess you understand what I mean and why it's annoying...different to you, not everyone does research. I have many batman comics and all people talk about is the Joker...that doesn't make me dislike Joker, but it makes it feel so mainstream to like him (same with Goku). But even if you still learn to like new things, I hate the fact that the movies "replace" the characters. Like I said, when I google a superhero that got a movie, I wanna see the actual comic character and not the actor. If I wanna see the actor, I google the name and the superhero together. And the fact that the results show the actors, just proves that people search for the movie stuff, not the comics. I just want people to stop overusing things...since Avengers, I see pics, videos and other stuff of it, everywhere over the internet, by people that only saw the movie and nothing else. I guess I just get annoyed easily by things like that...people acting smart about something that they don't know much about :P Sorry for writing that much lol



+ Steve	Nov 25 2012, 02:14 AM Post #7
Greetings. I will be your waifu this season. Posts: 19,471 Group: Legend Member #5,710 Joined: February 7, 2011 Gender Male Country United Kingdom Favourite Anime Hunter x Hunter(2011) What Browser do you use? Mozilla Firefox Favourite Manga Berserk all day erry day	I think Watchmen was done really really well. I hadn't heard of it until the movie was coming out, so I got the graphic novel and read it before the movie came out. It's not exactly identical but they way they updated it all was brilliant there weren't really any bits that were completely different from the graphic novel except at the end when... Spoiler: click to toggle Adrians machine destroys the cities it's not a creature from another dimensions it's explosions of Jon's energy, which actually makes a bit more sense. I think comic book based movies are pretty awesome, sure some people are ignorant about them but ultimately it brings more fans to them than it does loses them. I've never heard of anyone who stopped reading comics because the movies came out either so they don't really take fans away just add more. People who don't know about superheroes before the movies are just lame, clearly had no childhood Only one I've not known about is Kick ***** and I don't even read comics lol.
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~~Frankie~~	Nov 25 2012, 09:23 AM Post #8
Posts: 573 Group: GTFO Member #593 Joined: August 8, 2005	The Dark Knight series is the best IMO.



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