When I first started looking at comics I had already seen as a child the Superman and Star Wars movies, the Batman, Spiderman, Hulk and Wonder Woman T.V. series plus others that seemed like they could be Superheroes.
I found comics were the only place after the early eighties that I could find what I wanted, to see: more superheroes.
Then I was only touching the surface and only buying what looked "cool". So I found the X-Men in a spiderman annual (the early years) reprinted, then in England 1986 Secret Wars came out and I found the new x-men, iron man, captain America et al.
Then nothing.
After that the very first Batman film came out and I started again looking to comics.
I loved the fact that my idols were being portrayed on the screen so people would understand why I loved them. We had the first captain America film and swamp thing and by today's standard they were rubbish, but I thought they were great. Cartoons always seemed to mess up my favourites I always wanted to see them in celluloid. And so eventually we got the X-men and Spiderman films. Now there is a saying that the book is better than the film and it had run true for every Superheroes movie. But I still love them, I loved Daredevil, Fantastic Four 1&2 all the x-men, spiderman, Batman films and even enjoyed elektra and the punisher films. So my point is this: why complain?
I gave up complaining when wolverine was 6'1" in the film.
It worked.
You can't back fill 40 years of comic history or do a 1960's origin tale (though captain America seems to me to be becoming the potentially best cbm.) in a 1& half hour film and do the subject justice.
I pray for a Secret Wars movie but know it would be changed to fit this decade.
For me, to know that future generations are gonna be interested in the Comics and characters ive loved after seeing these films gives me hope. I myself think that the comic industry has become worse than the films themselves and have bastardised the characters for the sake of change.
I await with baited breath this years movies and next years and all that come and I for one cannot complain.