Emperorbach said:
a self contained story needs pretty much to stick to original material or pissing off the fans alot , for reals guess thats why iron man 3 never bothered you but watchmen and 300 , you can't modernize or adapt those stories looslely or they wont be the same films , not all films need a modern aesthetic or update , that'd even be boring or disrespectful to the source material especially when all hthe plot elemetnts for watchmen were made by the cold war era like i said those movies are so much better if you undertsand the era they were made in context is needed |
no the source material is better. The movies were made pretty recently. Even if we're saying he made the best possible version of those films while sticking to source material (which I agree is more important when it's something like Watchmen as opposed to Iron Man 3 which isn't based on any certain comic and therefore should be allowed to wiggle more) he still didn't do anything inventive or original. All he did was copy paste and have nice effects to do it. Hell 300 he completely botched up the combat with the whirly slomo crap. Just make the fights more gladiator and less Matrix and it would have been so much better. Also going back to my Dark Knight Returns example, if they would have just updated the president and some of the phrases (were "instant pizza" and "eyes sideways" really phrases in the 80s?) it would have been far less jarring for a modern film. When you play too much to nostalgia you end up with something bland and uninspired with no creative spark.
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