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Comic Book Movies

So it is often customary for Hollywood writers/directors to take a comic book and create a movie. It seems to be a general trend that once the comic transforms to movie state, it is either really well liked or completely terrible. In the cases of Batmen, X-Men, 300, Spiderman, and Men in Black, the theatrical rendition was generally well recieved. However, in many cases, such as Catwoman, Supergirl, The Punisher (the original, I don't know how good the new punisher is), Judge Dredd, Captain America, and many others the theatrical version was rejected and was far inferior to its comic book counterpart.

With odds against Hollywood that the comic book movie will be well receieved, why is Hollywood continuing to put out more and more comic book movies? Why can we not accept the comic book for the beautiful hand drawn simplicity that it is? Why  must we add special effects and squeeze every nickel and dime out of a cartoon? Our society has grown to the stage where we want to take everything to the next level. Our technology has made it capable for us to capatilze everything. Artists' original motives for drawing comic books could start simply as artistic and creative expression. However, because we have the technology to turn a short story into a feature length film with tons of special effects, we chose to do so because of the reapable profit.

Posted at 05:59PM Dec 06, 2008 by Megan Szakasits in General  |  Comments[0]