... after I watched that version of JL I spent my entire next session with my pshrink talking about it. Bad. Very bad.
Oh no! I am so glad to have been spared. Thanks for the warning.
I don't get much of what I look for in comics from films of comics
Yes, that's the bottom line. The medium is the message. What is best about any given character - Spider-Man, for example - doesn't necessarily translate to film, though they do rather well with the Steve-Ditko-like webswinging positions. Wolverine in X-Men was good, but the others were variable - and even Wolverine was compromised (or enhanced) by being made tall, dark and handsome instead of short, rough and ugly.
All the things you say about DC comics are true for me with Marvel, though I do love DC too, particularly the Batman related titles. (I'd read every comic written, every week, if only I had the time and the money.) No, that's not entirely true - I'd never read Frank Miller's current Batman series, because I hate it! I won't read anything written by Peter Miligan or Mark Waid, either.
I haven't get decided to never see another TV show or movie based on a comic again, but I've come close to it. I rather liked "Constantine" - even though it was very much not the John Constantine of my imagination (or the original creators') I enjoyed the movie. I thought they were true to the spirit of what I would want John Constantine to be, not the character as he developed in the comics.
So which DV characters do you most love? My top-faves are Supergirl, Batman, and Nightwing.
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Date: 2007-11-26 04:13 pm (UTC)Oh no! I am so glad to have been spared. Thanks for the warning.
I don't get much of what I look for in comics from films of comics
Yes, that's the bottom line. The medium is the message. What is best about any given character - Spider-Man, for example - doesn't necessarily translate to film, though they do rather well with the Steve-Ditko-like webswinging positions. Wolverine in X-Men was good, but the others were variable - and even Wolverine was compromised (or enhanced) by being made tall, dark and handsome instead of short, rough and ugly.
All the things you say about DC comics are true for me with Marvel, though I do love DC too, particularly the Batman related titles. (I'd read every comic written, every week, if only I had the time and the money.) No, that's not entirely true - I'd never read Frank Miller's current Batman series, because I hate it! I won't read anything written by Peter Miligan or Mark Waid, either.
I haven't get decided to never see another TV show or movie based on a comic again, but I've come close to it. I rather liked "Constantine" - even though it was very much not the John Constantine of my imagination (or the original creators') I enjoyed the movie. I thought they were true to the spirit of what I would want John Constantine to be, not the character as he developed in the comics.
So which DV characters do you most love? My top-faves are Supergirl, Batman, and Nightwing.