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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on May 11, 2013 13:26:02 GMT -5
In some cases, I don't mind it. As long as you aren't butchering the character to the point where it feels likea bargain bin version of it. For example, I present Spider-Man 3's "Venom". The symbiote stuff is done very well and true to the material up until Peter starts acting goofy as hell and emo. Eddie Brock feels very one-dimensional in this movie. His build up is rather hasty and doesn't leave much of an impact on the story and gets lost in the mix of the Sandman, symbiote, and New Goblin stories. Casting Topher Grace doesn't help either.
Topher is entirely wrong for the part, he can't pull off a big, hulking and somewhat sympathetic Eddie Brock and instead feels like he's playing Eric with a camera and douche cut. It's all wrong, they completely miss the character's point.
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Post by dav on May 11, 2013 14:18:13 GMT -5
The Dark Knight series was the perfect balance. It borrowed heavily from comics but applications of the many stories referenced with the original screen play was brilliant. I disagree. I'm cool with the changes to make it "realistic", but they threw out Batman's entire personality and created their own version of Bruce Wayne/Batman. He was presented as a mostly normal guy who just wanted to quickly fix Gotham and get on with being a regular Joe. That's not even close to who the Batman character is or has ever been. Batman is a guy so obsessed with his past and his promise to stamp the criminal element out of Gotham that he completely loses himself in it, to the point that there is no real Bruce Wayne. Only Batman and the phony Bruce Wayne he plays in public. Even the Adam West Batman was presented that way for crying out loud. Actually, it has been presented quite a few times in comics and other media that Bruce is willing to give up the Bat cowl, under certain circumstances. He mentioned being willing to let John Paul Valley take the mantle before he went completely doo lally and in the Phantasm movie, he was prepared to not even start with the woman he loved by his side. I think that it isn't going against Batman's character to have him leave the role, IF there's something to pull him away from it like someone else taking the role or if there's someone he loves taking him away from it. Since both conditions were present by the end of the Dark Knight Rises, I was fine with it. |
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Post by HMARK Center on May 11, 2013 21:04:03 GMT -5
Just like with any other source material, I think film adaptations should have total freedom to change whatever's necessary to make a good movie. Go ahead, shift stuff around, so long as the product is good.
Of course, if you're going to make an adaptation you should at least keep SOME of the trappings of the source material, otherwise you're misleading the audience, which obviously isn't right, and begs the question "why not just write an original film, then?". But all in all, go ahead and tinker around, so long as it's good.
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