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09-14-2009 08:33 AM |
I watched the entire LOTR trilogy on TNT yesterday, so that was basically my whole day.
Great films, all of them. Now I'm really hyped for The Hobbit.
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Originally Posted by toretorden
(Post 734963)
I don't think that's a big problem with Watchmen actually. I think it is faithful and a successfull adaptation of the comic. When people don't like it, I assume that in most of the cases, they wouldn't have liked the comic book either.
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Well, a lot of critics complain that it's too faithful to the comic.
Basically, if you're not faithful enough to the source material you alienate it's fanbase, but if you're too faithful then the movie has no reason to exist.
Most great comic book movies took some liberty from the comics and implemented their own original ideas.
Spiderman 2 did it by changing some things about Dr. Octopus's origin story but these changes helped make the character more tragic and sympathetic, Iron Man did it to make the story more modern and resonant with it's more political themes, and the first two Superman movies avoided the more complex plot elements from the comics to keep things simple. So a lot of times making a few changes are for the better.
Burton pissed off some Batman purists for this reason but IMO I liked a lot of his ideas better than what originated from the comic. Batman Begins and Dark Knight made a lot of changes from the comics too, more than the Burton films in fact, so I find it hypocritical that people go apesh*t over these movies while refusing to give Burton credit for anything just because he had his own vision, especially when his films along with the Frank Miller comic played such a big role in redefining the Batman universe as how we see it today. |
