EDITORIAL: Why destroy good movies?

(This is in a non argumentative voice) I think the reason people get pissed off is because something that is near and dear to them gets twisted and bent loose as you said. I for one liked Wanted, and I never read the comic, but after I did read the comic, it just seemed like the movie wasn't as faithful to comic as it probably could of been. The movie was changed to be more contemporary and easier to translate.

Now Spiderman 3: as a movie itself, it was *ok*. Coming from a more faithful side, it wasn't that great. I mean, my personal biggest gripe against comic book movies is ALWAYS kill off the enemy. (minus a few movies like Batman Begins with scarecrow)I know the good guy must win, but personally it'd be cool to see enemies return especially in like a Darth Vadar like style and just be there as a background menace, kinda like you know he's always there. Spiderman 3 just kinda cluster(frick)ed enemies and tried to do what 2 separate movies could of done)and in this case it wasn't done well. Plus personally I feel like all 3 movies were too focused on Pete and MJ and losing all of Spiderman's charm and jokes.

So in the end, its all people's perspective, and how much they are willing to push aside their faithfulness to a movie/franchise.

The thing is we are talking about movies here not the comics. We are not going to get 20 Spider-Man movies so I really do not understand this worry over Villains. I want new ones in very movie not to see the same couple over and over.

I am with you Joker I love Spider-Man III. The biggest group of people who hate it are Venom fans. Since it was not a Venom movie they hate it simple as that. [sarcastic voice on] Venom is too big for a Spider-Man movie. [voice off]

First Class...

Now this is something entirely different. We have had 4 X-Men movies to date so we do have a pretty good idea of what to expect.

Most other CBMs at least pay lip service to the source material. With the X-Men franchise they do not do even that. The X-Men have been taken from us and place in the hands of people who just want to suck money out of us.

They do not care about the Comics, they do not care about the Fans. They were willing to throw away the greatest love story in Comic History (Scott and Jean) so she and Wolvie could almost get it on. There is a clear pattern here of doing it wrong.

So Joker you might be willing to wait to see what happens with First Class but many of us are not. We are already sick of what has been done to the X-Men and want it over. Personally I want First Class to bomb big time. I want it to stink so bad that Fox never, ever, makes another X-Men movie.

The point here is that I do not want another movie with the X-Men name added on. I do not want to see yet another crappy interpretation of the Mutants I want the real deal. So even if First Class gets raving reviews from the Critics I am not going to see it.

Sometimes there are more important things in life than a couple of hours of entertainment.

well, you picked probably the biggest mockery of source material ever created.

Wanted as a movie, i found to be very boring, but the thing is, it wasn't Wanted. If you walked into a room and people were watching Wanted, and you had no idea what they were watching, there is not a single person on the planet that would know it was supposed to be an adaptation of the comic. Thats the reason people say it sucks. They could have named that movie ANYTHING else, but not Wanted. Why? again, because IT WASN'T WANTED. I don't know what it was, but the one thing it was not, was Wanted. Need me to say it again? okay. It wasn't Wanted! It would be like making a Batman adaptation, with no superheroes or villains, and most importantly, NO BATMAN. Would you consider that a good movie? I know I wouldn't.

So i don't care, it could have been the greatest movie ever made, and I'd STILL say it sucked, because it failed in adapting the comic. Which, really, should be the entire goal of an ADAPTATION.

I actually disagree with Corndog on the Wanted issue. I never read the original and I realize that the movie wasn't close to it, but that doesn't matter that much to me. I really don't see why they would choose to call it Wanted and label it an adaptation when it was pretty much an original story, but whatever.
I hated wanted because I thought it was a crappy movie. If it was a great movie that had nothing to d with the comic, then I would give it credit. But in my opinion: the movie sucks and it's a terrible adaptation which makes it really bad.

I generally agree with the stance this editorial takes, but find it hard to support such a poorly written and poorly argued piece.

another glorified comment posted in editorials because someone needs attention.

do 95% of you even care about credibility or being taken seriously?

I respect all your guys opinoins I was just giving @ odins beard I don't need attention just wanted to write a article.