[QUOTE="SilentSoprano"][QUOTE="xaos"] The same things that dramas do, telling different stories with different characters. As action movies with an economic eye turned toward franchise, certainly initial films in a series do tend to follow an origin story formula, but freed of that constraint, all kinds of stuff. Of course, that is restricting it to the superhero stuff, as opposed to comic adaptations like Ghost World, American Splendor, A History of Violence, From Hell, Road to Perdition, etcxaos
Sorry, but comic book movies will never grow on me unless there are more that come out which are similar to Kick-Ass. That and Spidreman 1/2 are the only ones I really thought were great (from what I remember).
Whereas I thought Kick-Ass was unwatchably terrible, so different strokes. Obviously, the "comic book umbrella" is broad enough to serve a wide array of tastes, which was pretty much my point.How was Kick-Ass terrible? And no, the umbrella isn't broad enough except for a few exceptions. Most of the comic-book movies that are churned out have the same generic action, tons of CGI, humongous budget, sub-plot romance, "funny" one-liners, and hot, young Hollywood actors/actresses. Rarely is it the case that a comic-book movie actually attempts something interesting or out-of-the-box. There never seems to be much substance from the ones I have seen. Then again, how can they really do anything other than follow the path that is already laid out for them in the backstory and books?
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