01-16-2008, 06:58 PM
My aproach was to watch them as stand-alone entertainment. Anyone going into a movie with preconcieved notions based on a book or graphic novel that spawned the movie will be in for a let-down most of the time. Every reader has a slightly different experience of the original work, and the director's interpretation may be close to yours, or it may be way off.
Let's face it. They are movies based on a comic book for Jeebus' sake.
Bottom line, if you enjoy them great. If you don't, what the heck were you expecting anyway?
A friend of mine and I got in a heated discussion of the Godzilla movie (the one with Mathew Broderick) with our company librarian while we were all carpooling. He was moaning and wailing about how aweful it was. Finally I got fed up and shouted at him "For $#&&%!! Sake, it's a F%$*&)(^%ing movie about a giant radioactive lizard atacking New York City! What the H#&*) were you expecting? Sir Ian McKellen doing Shakespere?"
Let's face it. They are movies based on a comic book for Jeebus' sake.
Bottom line, if you enjoy them great. If you don't, what the heck were you expecting anyway?
A friend of mine and I got in a heated discussion of the Godzilla movie (the one with Mathew Broderick) with our company librarian while we were all carpooling. He was moaning and wailing about how aweful it was. Finally I got fed up and shouted at him "For $#&&%!! Sake, it's a F%$*&)(^%ing movie about a giant radioactive lizard atacking New York City! What the H#&*) were you expecting? Sir Ian McKellen doing Shakespere?"