Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Hm, while I do agree that comic books often take too many liberties with the source material, I'm afraid it's not anything that's going to change soon.
The problem with comic book movies is that it has to condense 70 years of retcons, reboots, and continuity into two hours of cinema and still squeez a plot in there. They tend to aim for the proverbial lowest common denominator--in this case, the general populace who doesn't know the characters' histories like fans. Everything has to be dumbed down for those who are unable or unwilling to follow years of history.
Which is why Batman Begins retold Bruce's origin story and why it introduced Ra's al Ghul gradually instead of having him be the kind of figure he is in the comics.
Hmm. Good point.
theredbaronNot necessarily people who don't care about being patriotic as far as the global market is concerned, more just people who aren't patriotic about a country they don't live in. I have to say, while I do know a fair bit about Captain America and he is fairly well-known amongst my nerdier peers, he would hardly rank at all in the popularity stakes as far as comic book sales/character prestige is concerned. As I understand, Captain America isn't far below the popularity of say Batman or Spiderman in the US.
Hm, while I do agree that comic books often take too many liberties with the source material, I'm afraid it's not anything that's going to change soon.
The problem with comic book movies is that it has to condense 70 years of retcons, reboots, and continuity into two hours of cinema and still squeez a plot in there. They tend to aim for the proverbial lowest common denominator--in this case, the general populace who doesn't know the characters' histories like fans. Everything has to be dumbed down for those who are unable or unwilling to follow years of history.
Which is why Batman Begins retold Bruce's origin story and why it introduced Ra's al Ghul gradually instead of having him be the kind of figure he is in the comics.
Hmm. Good point.
theredbaronNot necessarily people who don't care about being patriotic as far as the global market is concerned, more just people who aren't patriotic about a country they don't live in. I have to say, while I do know a fair bit about Captain America and he is fairly well-known amongst my nerdier peers, he would hardly rank at all in the popularity stakes as far as comic book sales/character prestige is concerned. As I understand, Captain America isn't far below the popularity of say Batman or Spiderman in the US.
Again, good point.