I don't think I've watched a new marvel movie since Love & Thunder
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I was never a huge comic reader, and I think that's a shitty way to judge the movies tbh. they don't need to be "comic accurate". plenty of comics stray from other versions of characters. Just bc it's different doesn't make it bad. but that's my two cents. that being said the quality has certainly decreased recently
Ohh you talked about that before right? Cursing and throwing stuff or something?
Namor suckedddd massively
True in some cases, but if you stray from the source material too much, there’s little point in using the character imo. They’ve done great things with some characters that I didn’t care for (Mantis for example). But Namor was so far off it was extremely disappointing
Completely agree. Re both Namor and mantis
But enjoyment of movies is totally subjective of course.
Taskmaster was the worst butchering of a character
why does it have to be close to be good? is it bc it's actually good, or bc it has proximity to something you're familiar with?
Dreadful
Ya I agree. Comic book characters are constantly being reinvented, so changing them up for movies is fine. But straying too far doesn't work. For movies or comics.
the character itself was just so bad lol I didn't need to read a comic to know that
Excellent point! But if you do stray too far, and change the character too much then you might as well just create a whole new character
Because to me, a “character” means they have certain characteristics that make them who they are. Not just names, appearance and powers, but personality, their approach to things, their way of speaking. If it’s too far off, then it’s not that character anymore
For someone who didn’t know Namor from the comics, sure it doesn’t matter, and if they enjoyed it that’s great. But for me, who does know the character from the comics, it was very frustrating and helped ruin the movie
but it's never been the same character, it's a new iteration. where in media creation do you have to follow what's been done before?
It was completely off. Ruined the whole movie for me.
it was never the Namor from the comics... bc this isn't the comics. it's the movies. completely different universe where the characters don't need to be what they have been
I’m officially agreeing to disagree
and I think the Beatles suck
