Comic Booky Flicks Are IN!
Who said that comic-books had to be about super heroes in ridiculously colorful tights - and that the movies that would try to adapt them had to be just as unrealistic and flat as the source material oftentimes is doomed to be? Nowadays, it simply does not have to be so! Not when the funny books have ways to circumvent the sad realities of the past -recent past too, of course- and, to do so, churn out rather side-effect side-projects onto the silver screen rather than faithfully adapt thinly-crafted silver age metaphors...! But let us not get into that right now - hmm?
Look at DC - not Warner Bros, but truly DC Comics, yes! Just a few short years ago they served up such monumental dreck as Catwoman and an animated feature starring Wonder Woman (not to mention a bunch of them starring... Batman. Again. Ugh.)
All in a barely sustained effort to show their corporative muscle and keep up with the allegedly smaller Marvel Entreprises which is, without support from a mighty juggernaut such as Warner Brothers, pumping out adaptations of their entire roster, one at a time! From the atrocious Ghost Rider to the inept Iron Man and onwards to Captain America and the Avengers; they are not stopping trying to flesh out their entire prime roster. While DC countered timidly with a stinky Superman reboot, a smelly Dark Knight, a rotten-to-the-core Watchmen and some odd choices in-between (including Jonah Hex, of all oddities...!)
However, DC has something the competitor does not readily have - a sub imprint! With Vertigo and other even odder lines of short-lived wastes of paper (mercifully - for the potential readers, not just for the forests) the big corporative entity known as DC can, at least in theory, find something that might hit the jackpot. Eventually. Maybe. And with the creation of DC Entertainent, thye can actively dip into the bank of characters that they own in order to try and create something viable at least in terms of straight to DVD. I mean, they tried with LXG. They tried again with V For Vendetta. And then they gave us The Losers.
The latest attempt is simply titled RED - and it features like a reunion party for Hollywood's old guard - alas, for DC.
At least there are some true gems, once in a blue moon, that are undeniably inspired by comic-books but present it in such a way that you can only appreciate it with genuine glee and applaud the effort - KICK-ASS comes to mind.
Alas, for all the Kick-Asses, there will always be a bunch of Mystery Men that are so painfully lame that all they do is insure the death of the four-color world rather than bring it more fans thanks to its inception into the Seventh Art...
(Ohh - did I say INCEPTION? Bah... never mind that now; it was a flash-in-the-pan... Wait - did I say the FLASH? HA - forget it!!!)
Of course, quite ironically so, the best renditions are oftentimes delivered by the totally fake fan-made editing jobs...!
Look at DC - not Warner Bros, but truly DC Comics, yes! Just a few short years ago they served up such monumental dreck as Catwoman and an animated feature starring Wonder Woman (not to mention a bunch of them starring... Batman. Again. Ugh.)
All in a barely sustained effort to show their corporative muscle and keep up with the allegedly smaller Marvel Entreprises which is, without support from a mighty juggernaut such as Warner Brothers, pumping out adaptations of their entire roster, one at a time! From the atrocious Ghost Rider to the inept Iron Man and onwards to Captain America and the Avengers; they are not stopping trying to flesh out their entire prime roster. While DC countered timidly with a stinky Superman reboot, a smelly Dark Knight, a rotten-to-the-core Watchmen and some odd choices in-between (including Jonah Hex, of all oddities...!)
However, DC has something the competitor does not readily have - a sub imprint! With Vertigo and other even odder lines of short-lived wastes of paper (mercifully - for the potential readers, not just for the forests) the big corporative entity known as DC can, at least in theory, find something that might hit the jackpot. Eventually. Maybe. And with the creation of DC Entertainent, thye can actively dip into the bank of characters that they own in order to try and create something viable at least in terms of straight to DVD. I mean, they tried with LXG. They tried again with V For Vendetta. And then they gave us The Losers.
The latest attempt is simply titled RED - and it features like a reunion party for Hollywood's old guard - alas, for DC.
(Keep trying; what can I tell ya...)
Have a look...
Oops - wrong RED there... try this one:
sheesh - not the new 52 there... at all!
Let's try this again...
AND AGAIN - AND AGAIN...
So, you can go for that
Dirty Half-Dozen
of Reservoir Tinseltown Has-Beens.
Or go for something visibly inspired, at some point,
by ARCHIE, BETTY AND VERONICA...
At least there are some true gems, once in a blue moon, that are undeniably inspired by comic-books but present it in such a way that you can only appreciate it with genuine glee and applaud the effort - KICK-ASS comes to mind.
.
Oopsy-do again - seems like a time traveler
- FUTURE MAN no less -
dropped in on our blog... kicking Kick-Ass'...
er... ass out of there?!?
We apologize for the inconvenience...
Alas, for all the Kick-Asses, there will always be a bunch of Mystery Men that are so painfully lame that all they do is insure the death of the four-color world rather than bring it more fans thanks to its inception into the Seventh Art...
(Ohh - did I say INCEPTION? Bah... never mind that now; it was a flash-in-the-pan... Wait - did I say the FLASH? HA - forget it!!!)
Of course, quite ironically so, the best renditions are oftentimes delivered by the totally fake fan-made editing jobs...!
And if all else fails - there is always the
amalgamated movie/videogame combo:
Labels: cinema, comics, rotten celluloid
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