Guardians Of The Galaxy in The Book of Judgement
- Aug. 12, 2014, 7:46 p.m.
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... It's not only not good. It's bad.
Let's ignore the plot holes and slip ups, and who shallow universe of the core worlds (where a street cop talks to the president) and 40ks heretics (but only when it's convenient) are the only people, and that Jesus and 4 or the only 10 aliens in the galaxy go to a few places we've seen before with generic names to do generic things to string along a bland story inset catch phrase supplemented with big budget booms for the lowest common denominator the marketing department can push for and the Hollywood cheese and pants acting and all of that...
Ignoring all that we're seeing precedents set and we are paying millions to feed them... comic book conversions take the lead over novel conversion which isn't a bad thing per say (tho my own tastes lead to heavy narrative) and are carded as original stories while effectively making it up as they go, trimming down huge serials into a few action scenes and spamming them...
It makes me so very very concerned that the upcoming Lobo film is going to see a reduced characters just farting about to retrieves the special thing to help defeat the big bad (no need for writers here son) and the anti hero god will be replaced by a lovable rocket esk marionette.
I like I say would also care to see a resurgence of "serious sci fi", akin to Logan's run and Soylent Green, stuff with narrative ... most recently scene in what? the Matrix? Brazil? Children of Men? More of those please...
Just seems that it's only Tom Cruise making sci fi without super heroes these days... I don't know ... It's just gets on my nerves a bit how everyone seems to thing guardians is the best thing since bread was first sliced with a light saber (http://tinyurl.com/l7e9tvr). Ok so I'm a pedant and I'm pretentious and maybe I would have enjoyed it if it wasn't built up so much...
It's a fun romp for all the family with a Conker's bad fur day manner of getting in the adult jokes over the young un's heads, like The Simpsons used too, and it is probably worth a watch ...
Still, If we are going to make comic books into films for the next ten years could we please get Transmetroplitan? or The Invisibles? or 100 bullets? ... I hear there is a Preacher coming up but apparently they are doing a Hellblazer on it.
Phade ⋅ August 12, 2014
Eh. Obviously you have every right to not like anything so bitch away to your heart's content, but from the sound of what you're complaining about with GotG if they ever make those into films you'll probably have a thousand other things to bitch about it too. As those stories are dense as fuck.
So I say let those stories sleep on the pages as the wails of the fanboys along the outlier just isn't worth the criticism which essentially all boils down to 'THEY DIDN'T DO IT LIKE I WOULD DO IT.'
Rhizic Phade ⋅ August 12, 2014
Hum, it's not ALL Comics to Films that mess it up so... Ghostworld, & Hellboy are two that jump to mind...
My point very much isn't "They didn't do it how I like it" but they used a chopped up version of the comics to make a very tropy film of Anti heros > Get magic object > Defeat arbitrary big bad
Yes there are better comics, but they could have also expanded the world a bit, gave the characters back story, gave the objects back story too for example the movie doesn't ever really tell you what the deal is with the gun they use or the hammer or the space ship ... these are explored properly in the comics and could have been explored in the film (or at least other films seem to contain such a wealthy from their sources // Akira, Children of Men)
tho perhaps not every film can cover as much as LOTR or Star Wars so maybe we should look for new serials? btw (all of the comics I mentioned have films on the cards)