Post by jesuspj on Jul 16, 2008 12:14:03 GMT -5
I can tell you this.
I didn't like the movie version of Wanted. Not one bit.
I could not get over the fact of how different it was to the actual comic.
While watching it I had the same thing go through my head when I heard about David Goyers Green Arrow/Supermax project. "Why couldn't they have called this something else?!"
The big argument is "Well some things just don't translate well to the big screen."
Bullsh*t. Comics are HUGE in movies. We have big blockbusters about guys in armor, men dressed as bats and spiders and giant green monsters and some that are just SUPER.
You're telling me that a movie about costumed super villians duking it out wouldn't sell?
"But the comic is too graphic and violent and swears a lot!"
Ahem....... Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, 300, Sin City, Robocop, Dawn of the Dead. Hell...even the Punisher had boobs walking around and a few cuss words. And I do believe the X-Men flicks as well.
And those flicks made it BIG. (Ok. Maybe not the Punisher so much...)
What did we get? WHAT DID WE GET?
Equilibrium meets Smoking Aces meets Transporter with a little bit of Shoot Em Up with a couple of the names from the comics being pasted on some of the characters.
I left the theater hoping, WISHING, that this movie would flop. I really did. Just so we didn't get any possible sequels of this piece of crap.
But it didn't.
It's making tons of cash.
And Mark Millar is running around saying it's "Brilliant" when you know damn well that if it flopped, he would be the first to say "Well it didn't stay close to the material."
And now....there's a sequel in the works.
Variety has the story. Go read it there. I'm too pissed to even talk about it anymore.
www.variety.com/VR1117988927.html
I didn't like the movie version of Wanted. Not one bit.
I could not get over the fact of how different it was to the actual comic.
While watching it I had the same thing go through my head when I heard about David Goyers Green Arrow/Supermax project. "Why couldn't they have called this something else?!"
The big argument is "Well some things just don't translate well to the big screen."
Bullsh*t. Comics are HUGE in movies. We have big blockbusters about guys in armor, men dressed as bats and spiders and giant green monsters and some that are just SUPER.
You're telling me that a movie about costumed super villians duking it out wouldn't sell?
"But the comic is too graphic and violent and swears a lot!"
Ahem....... Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, 300, Sin City, Robocop, Dawn of the Dead. Hell...even the Punisher had boobs walking around and a few cuss words. And I do believe the X-Men flicks as well.
And those flicks made it BIG. (Ok. Maybe not the Punisher so much...)
What did we get? WHAT DID WE GET?
Equilibrium meets Smoking Aces meets Transporter with a little bit of Shoot Em Up with a couple of the names from the comics being pasted on some of the characters.
I left the theater hoping, WISHING, that this movie would flop. I really did. Just so we didn't get any possible sequels of this piece of crap.
But it didn't.
It's making tons of cash.
And Mark Millar is running around saying it's "Brilliant" when you know damn well that if it flopped, he would be the first to say "Well it didn't stay close to the material."
And now....there's a sequel in the works.
Variety has the story. Go read it there. I'm too pissed to even talk about it anymore.
www.variety.com/VR1117988927.html