Hobie-wan wrote:
Note I have read the book, which is a collection of short stories, but not seen the movie because it has so little to do with it I have no desire to see it.
Hated the movie, but Will Smith was adorable.
BurningDoom wrote:
Who cares if the source material is from a comic?
You do. And apparently a lot. Way more than any typical movie goer. I mean, that's your entire beef isn't it? It doesn't follow the comic.
BurningDoom wrote:
So because it's from a comic rather than somewhere else, the characters somehow mean less? Characters that have endured for well over 40 years?
Comic, book, legend, myth... I don't care as I'm not invested in imaginary characters. Have a movie starring a Black Santa Claus; f--k if I care as long as the movie is good. Gizmo can eat after midnight? F--k if I care if it is a good movie.
Hobie-wan wrote:
Note I have read the book, which is a collection of short stories, but not seen the movie because it has so little to do with it I have no desire to see it.
Hated the movie, but Will Smith was adorable.
BurningDoom wrote:
Who cares if the source material is from a comic?
You do. And apparently a lot. Way more than any typical movie goer. I mean, that's your entire beef isn't it? It doesn't follow the comic.
BurningDoom wrote:
So because it's from a comic rather than somewhere else, the characters somehow mean less? Characters that have endured for well over 40 years?
Comic, book, legend, myth... I don't care as I'm not invested in imaginary characters. Have a movie starring a Black Santa Claus; f--k if I care as long as the movie is good. Gizmo can eat after midnight? F--k if I care if it is a good movie.
No my entire beef is they completely ruined a MAJOR character. I don't have a problem if comic movies veer from the storyline of comics. I understand that you can't fit 40+ years of history into 2 hours, and I understand that visually a lot of the same things that work in comics won't work in a movie.
But that's not my complaint. The complaint is that they are screwing with an essential CORE character to the story. A comic movie doesn't necessarily have to exactly mirror the comics, most don't. But when you start messing with core elements, you're taking away from what makes that story great and pissing all over that character.
And really? Calling us nerds, here of all places? You guys do realize we're posting on a website full of obsessive video game collectors, right? Pot, meet tea kettle.
noiseredux wrote:Yes, BD. You might even conclude I was joking.
No problem, then. But you weren't the first guy. Comic Book guy from the Simpsons was the first reply I got, makes me a little defensive in that regard.
The trailers suggested the Mandarin in his semi-original form as a fully badass villain. He went in with that expectation and was disappointed. I get that. It's too bad that you can't overlook it and enjoy the story they created. Maybe pretend they never teased the mandarin and that the character was, I don't know... Man Daren. But still, I understand that he wanted to see Iron Man's ultimate nemesis portrayed in a more typical manner, and was let down. Nobody is right or wrong...
