In Which The Hoard Potato Absolves You Of Your Guilt
You know, folks, everything I said the other day the roots of my excitement for this movie also means that you don't have to apologize to me if you aren't excited, if you think it's going to be lousy, or if you don't want to tag along when I hit the theater tonight.
It's okay, really. I am an unapologetic Green Lantern fan, and believe me, over ( Read more... )
It's okay, really. I am an unapologetic Green Lantern fan, and believe me, over ( Read more... )
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There have been a lot of comic book adaptations that I've found mildly disappointing, but there's only one that actively pisses me off at how badly it screwed up almost everything -- especially after two previous movies that kept getting things so very right.
That would be X3: X-Men United, whose only saving grace was Kelsey Grammer as Hank McCoy.
That movie egregiously mishandled a storyline that should have, frankly, been both epic and dramatically engaging. Jean to Phoenix to Dark Phoenix ... for one thing, they should have spread it across at least two movies, rather than trying to cram all their ideas into one grand finale that ultimately was nothing of the kind.
I could go on. And on. And on. But I'd rather spend my time and energy talking about stuff I like.
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I just scored the entire run of Republic's Adventures of Captain Marvel serial, which is, from all reports, one of the high points of both the comic-book superhero adaptation and the CLiffhanger Movie Serial forms.
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The reason Jonah Hex is a terrible superhero movie is that Jonah Hex was not and is not a superhero, and the producers didn't GET that, so they had to give him superpowers.
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Having relatively little exposure to GL before, I can't comment on how well it respects any established/treasured canon, but... In my ever so humble opinion, looking at the movie on its own merits, I think...
...that many of the people sitting around me that night are bound for the Special Hell. };>
I'll reserve actual opinions for later, though I will say that I'm looking to see it again in the next week...
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That said, I'm still planning on going to see it. I know what it's about, and I know that Comic Book Movies often get bad reviews, because they just don't have the strength of plot of Gone with the Wind.
I counter that with 'what movie does, these days?'
As for bad superhero movies, I'd have to put the first Punisher movie at the top of the list, staring Dolph Lungren. That, I think, was worse than the Corman F4.
I'd probably have to put the 1997 Batman and Robin up there too.
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I HAD PURGED JOEL SHUMACHER'S BATMAN MOVIES FROM MY BRAIN.
.... seriously, Batman and Robin beats X3 hands down.
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So glad.
Though it does leave me with X3 being the worst 'real' superhero/comic book move I've paid to see.
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Frank Castle is an unapologetic Remo Williams rip-off who doesn't even have a supporting cast as entertaining as Chiun.
The only think that makes Frank distinguishable from any other Gun Totin' Action Movie/Men's Novel Hero is that he operates in a superhero universe.
Every adaptation leaves that part out ... understandably, yes, but nonetheless, Frank just kind of fades into background noise. It stops being a "comic book superhero movie" and just turns into another overblown shoot-em-up.
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