Four-Color World: The Comic Book Thread

Re: The Dark Knight is done, now is it Superman's turn?

1. I loved Captain American when I was a kid. He was my favorite. But that movie sucked.

B. The Spiderman remake was bad. It bothers me that they did a Spiderman origin movie twice in a decade. It bothers me more that the second wasn't as good as the first.

 

Re: The Dark Knight is done, now is it Superman's turn?

I'll be curious how it does... Superman just doesn't seem to be nearly as popular these days as Batman, Spiderman, Iron Man or probably several other superheros.

 

Re: The Dark Knight is done, now is it Superman's turn?

Who is Spiderman?

 

Re: The Dark Knight is done, now is it Superman's turn?

I thought "Amazing Spider-Man" was OK, much better than SM3 which had been a sprawling disjointed mess, but it really didn't change the origin enough to be a good reboot.

And the Raimi series had been saving Curt Connors in reserve the entire previous series, so there was really no reason SM4 wouldn't have been a big throwdown battle between Spidey and the Lizard.

So really "ASM" seemed pretty much the movie SM4 would have been -- except they switched out the whole cast.

 

Re: The Dark Knight is done, now is it Superman's turn?

The change in the cast is the main reason I liked it so much better.

That said, there is one other difference. They still have a living Norman Osborn, who can be a hell of a villain if done right.

 

Re: The Dark Knight is done, now is it Superman's turn?

To each his own, but I thought the movie was pretty damn good. It told the story it needed to and set things up well for "The Avengers." I also thought the character came out pretty well also in "The Avengers" -- of course, it helped to play him off Tony Stark for much of the movie.

 

Re: The Dark Knight is done, now is it Superman's turn?

Have you watched the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man recently? I loved that movie when it came out (and still do to a certain extent), but it doesn't hold up at all.

Green Goblin's costume is a joke and the slapdick scene they inserted after 9-11 with the people on the bridge throwing stuff at Goblin was godawful. The balloon scene's special effects were exceedingly poor (I'm pretty sure you see a tram full of tourists pass during the shot of the balcony collapsing).

 

Re: The Dark Knight is done, now is it Superman's turn?

It's too bad the Goblin character was so cheesy looking in Spider-Man. Willem Dafoe was perfect to play Norman Osborne, but - as I noted above - his costume was positively dreadful.

 

Re: The Dark Knight is done, now is it Superman's turn?

The people throwing stuff at Goblin notwithstanding, I think it holds up pretty well. McGuire pretty much nails who Peter Parker was in the early days of the comic.

 

Re: The Dark Knight is done, now is it Superman's turn?

I liked the Spider-Man reboot a lot more than I thought I would...

 

Re: The Dark Knight is done, now is it Superman's turn?

The Goblin costume was terrible, but I still enjoyed the first version much better.
I thought Maguire was a much better Peter Parker.
I thought the Peter-MJ romantic element was done much better than the Peter-Gwen version.
The sappy element in the first version was less bothersome than the remake's crane-workers-of-NY-unite moment.

 

Re: The Dark Knight is done, now is it Superman's turn?

I really enjoyed 'The Avengers,' but the best you can say about the Captain America movie is that it told the story it had to tell and set up 'The Avengers.'
I agree with you.