"Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he
How many versions of Hercules are there? Thor? Achilles? Frankenstein? Sherlock Homes? Little Red Riding Hood? Once characters enter the mass consciousness and become mythic and iconic they transcend the source material and take on lives of their own. Many refer to comic book super-heroes as modern myths, and in many senses this is true, but with that comes the fact that people will constantly reinterpret myths to fit the needs of the themes of the stories they want to tell. Stories evolve in the telling and characters with them. The source material is a starting point, not an ending point in mythic stories. Sacrificing the dynamics of storytelling and its ability to grow evolve with its audiences just for consistency to source material is foolishness (but then Emerson had a point when he said "foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" and there is a lot of small-mindedness within fandoms of all sorts, especially comics). Something that is not growing and evolving is dying.
-M
Comic fans get the comics their buying habits deserve.
"Opinion is the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding." -Plato
Tell that to the fans who hate Homecoming for going off the rails regarding the source material but if Westerners were to adapt something like Death Note then they would have to have picked a white man to play L Lawliet even though some foolishly ask for a Japanese man to play him. According to his creators he is 99% white.
"Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he
Well this guy must have the biggest hobgoblin in his head look at his review on Homecoming though I myself found the movie awkward when it didn't even try to make Peter Parker act like Peter Parker though I started indifferent and some how I am still indifferent though it offends me a little as craftsman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MdNXpDo4i4 and these ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4_SZ5WATkE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BgGvf6uSgw. Oh and one more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-F-q-Bme4.
Last edited by The Dying Detective; 02-12-2018 at 01:20 PM.
"Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he
I don't really care what other people say or thing about the Marvel movies. People have their own biases and I don't care to figure out what they are and I absolutely refuse to let what other people think affect my enjoyment of something. I am quite capable of making up my own mind and and forming my own opinions and there are entirely too many people engaged in so called criticism who are only happy when they are bitching about something, and frankly life is too short for me to deal with people like that of my own volition. SO no I am not reading those reviews because it would be 10 minutes of my life I would never have back and there are so many other better things I could do with that time, like read or watch something I do like.
-M
Comic fans get the comics their buying habits deserve.
"Opinion is the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding." -Plato
As far as I am concern about Marvel's current movie output they might be in trouble thanks to how much they rely on jokes these days instead of taking themselves seriously it could be a sign that they aren't confident in their skills to write a movie so they compensate by overusing jokes.
"Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he
Those movies are successful even if the comic buyers don't like them. Guardians 2 made 389 million, Spider-man Homecoming made 334 million, and Thor Ragnarok made 314 million. They are not in trouble and are not in danger of going away anytime soon. Of all that money made, I daresay that only a fraction came from regular comic buyers. The movie producers have to go with what they think the general public will respond to. I think all the changes have been clever, for the most part.
Eventually someone will have to notice the flaws and that most of the movies look exactly the same with different touches and the over use of bathos or comical breaks in serious moments might cause trouble in the future. And then once the over saturation sinks in then people will not attend out of boredom.
"Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he
Isn't that true for anything? You do what works until it stops working, then you do something else. The public can't get enough of the Marvel Movies.
Eh I get what you mean I admit even I don't really see a future where the public gets tired of superhero adaptations. We're already in 2018 and it still doesn't look like it's going to happen any time. But I wonder how long until people get tired of the same joke fest they've been getting all these years?
Last edited by The Dying Detective; 02-13-2018 at 09:02 AM.
"Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he