there's a cameo in fantastic 4 II where stan lee is told that he is not on the guest list to the wedding and it is a great metaphor for hollywood film versions of classic comic books.
for some reason the producers of these bloated merchandising tools feel the need to bypass the authors who wrote the books in the first place and replace them with someone who inevitably feels the need to change everything that made the book a classic in the first place. all this does is alienate the original fans and makes the uninitiated wonder what the big deal was in the first place. everyone loses.
look at the comic book movies that work; they don't stray too far from the source material and they seem to have been written by someone who knows and understands the characters.
no one that can change this process will probably ever read this, but i still must say, if only to maintain my own fragile sanity, LEAVE THE CHARACTERS ALONE. using a tachyon pulse to separate the silver surfer from his board because it is actually the source of his power? where is this crap coming from? the dude is infused with the power cosmic! he eats tachyons for breakfast and doesn't need his board to do it.
it is actually in your best interest not to mess with the original too much. why do you think the spiderman movies did so well? because they didn't change the character! (and they had raimi) those movies seem to have been written by someone that actually read spiderman and liked it instead of by some hack who just takes the characters and shoehorns them into what is little more than an overblown taco bell marketing scheme. they got rid of spidey's web-shooters, sure, but they didn't change any of the central, important things about the character.
here's an idea, put in one less explosion and buy yourself a decent script, because if the script sucks you're doomed from day one.
btw, the plot arc of FF4II is that invisible girl finally realizes that the possible annihilation of the entire earth is slightly more important than her own stupid wedding. she whines and complains about not being "normal" while the thing, who doesn't have the option of even appearing normal, drinks beer out of a pitcher. she worries about raising a child in this "environment." if by "this environment" she means crappy movies, then i agree. of course, if you know anything about how her son turns out, the evironment should be the least of her worries. the only funny part of the movie is when she dies and the only sad part is when they bring her back.
here's an alternative, if you're going to change one thing, then you might as well change everything.
comic fans: you must stop paying to see these movies. if they do even moderately well, then we're sending the wrong message. in my own defense, i watched a copy of FF4II that i checked out of the library, which also explains why this rant comes a year late. still, this an ongoing penomenon. for example, ghost rider vs. sin city.
for some reason the producers of these bloated merchandising tools feel the need to bypass the authors who wrote the books in the first place and replace them with someone who inevitably feels the need to change everything that made the book a classic in the first place. all this does is alienate the original fans and makes the uninitiated wonder what the big deal was in the first place. everyone loses.
look at the comic book movies that work; they don't stray too far from the source material and they seem to have been written by someone who knows and understands the characters.
no one that can change this process will probably ever read this, but i still must say, if only to maintain my own fragile sanity, LEAVE THE CHARACTERS ALONE. using a tachyon pulse to separate the silver surfer from his board because it is actually the source of his power? where is this crap coming from? the dude is infused with the power cosmic! he eats tachyons for breakfast and doesn't need his board to do it.it is actually in your best interest not to mess with the original too much. why do you think the spiderman movies did so well? because they didn't change the character! (and they had raimi) those movies seem to have been written by someone that actually read spiderman and liked it instead of by some hack who just takes the characters and shoehorns them into what is little more than an overblown taco bell marketing scheme. they got rid of spidey's web-shooters, sure, but they didn't change any of the central, important things about the character.
here's an idea, put in one less explosion and buy yourself a decent script, because if the script sucks you're doomed from day one.
btw, the plot arc of FF4II is that invisible girl finally realizes that the possible annihilation of the entire earth is slightly more important than her own stupid wedding. she whines and complains about not being "normal" while the thing, who doesn't have the option of even appearing normal, drinks beer out of a pitcher. she worries about raising a child in this "environment." if by "this environment" she means crappy movies, then i agree. of course, if you know anything about how her son turns out, the evironment should be the least of her worries. the only funny part of the movie is when she dies and the only sad part is when they bring her back.
here's an alternative, if you're going to change one thing, then you might as well change everything.
comic fans: you must stop paying to see these movies. if they do even moderately well, then we're sending the wrong message. in my own defense, i watched a copy of FF4II that i checked out of the library, which also explains why this rant comes a year late. still, this an ongoing penomenon. for example, ghost rider vs. sin city.
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