In today’s comic book movies is seems that directors and producer want to inject and certain realism in to the movie. While this can and has work I personally would like to keep my comic book movies close to the source material and put as much fantasy as possible in to it.
The whole reason I read comic books is to escape from reality and jump in to a universe of heroes with super powers, spandex costumes, super intelligence, and ridiculously eccentric villains. It takes you to a world where your problems seem a little minor in the scheme of the Joker trying to blow Gotham up…..again, or Captain America being shot.
Me as a fan would love to see the movie makers stick closer to the comic books then go for the real approach. Case in point Iron Man. I liked the Batman movies more only because I like the character a little bit better; in Iron Man director Jon Favreau did an excellent job of keeping the movie very comic book. The way the suit looks is the way it looks in the comic books and I think that’s the best way to go in comic book movies. Batman suits look good but they don’t seem very comic book to me.
Also the first Superman with Richard Donner and Christopher Reeve did a really good job of sticking to the comic books instead of trying to make it real (unless you count Marlon Brandon calling Krypton Krypten.) Everything from the suit to how he acted as Clark Kent was done well. Not to say that the movie didn’t have its flaws but it and Superman 2 were in my opinion really good comic book movies.
One other movie I am having a problem with is Green Lantern. I know the way they are making the movie it is almost pure fantasy, but this is a movie that I would like them to stick the source material more. They have changed the suit, the power battery, and the ring.
Why would you change something that has been working for the past 60 years?
I know that I have favored DC in this article but I know more about DC. So sorry to all Marvel fans who do not feel represented in this article.
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