I love jessica alba, she shouldn't have been in fantastic four, she's beautiful and a decent actress, she can't play a forty year old woman. the movie falls apart before it starts, I can't get past it. I don't know where they went wrong in X-Men, I just never bought into it. and i agree on the matrix, they tried to get too cute in number 2 with the explination, and after that three was ruined.
maybe there's stories better left for comic books....a medium where character development isn't nearly as important.
i wouldn't say 100%, but he's probably 80% wrong. i thought it could have been better, but it was entertaining. i love those futuristic prophecy movies.
Call me a nerd, but comic books have plenty of character development. The difference is characters like the X-Men, Batman, Spiderman, have been defined and refined over decades of monthly issues. It's hard to cram that all that 'mythology' into 2 hours while also delivering a great action flick...which is what people are expecting when going to see a movie based on a comic book.
but it works on other movies, particularly spiderman and batman (multiple batman movies) I understand what you're saying and somewhat agree, but there are example where they work
maybe it's because they're only needing to develop one central character. as opposed to X-Men with many. i was thinking the same thing you just posted, though. spiderman and batman were well developed, and it's the biggest part of what was good about those movies. when it is minimized to action sequences, these movies lose me.
Yeah, mainstream fans of the series don't know that most of the X-Men today aren't the originals. So it's kind of hard to rip of the origin story and make it a movie.
Here's one that I bet yall have never seen: Black Supaman http://blacksupaman.com/ This is one of those movies that are so bad, you just have to watch the whole thing just to see how crappy it can get. <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bGbMiOisDk0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bGbMiOisDk0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JfrCD-z2pE4"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JfrCD-z2pE4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wT79LR1Agso"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wT79LR1Agso" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
I hate "Magnolia" more than any movie. Paul Thomas Anderson is a hack who steals from better filmmakers. It's not like Robert Altman's "Short Cuts" was made in the 1940's, or something- also, if you're going to steal ideas, why steal an *entire* movie, setting and theme?! Every frame of that movie is like a clown dousing himself on fire and jumping up and down with a neon sign that says "LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME, I'M IMPORTANT!!!!!" Characters only existed so they could announce one of Anderson's stupid-assed themes. I'll give a couple of examples- the Good Cop character actually called himself "A Good Cop" over and over again. The child molester was a children's tv host who was named, yep, Jimmy Gator...subtle stuff like that. I didn't believe a single character for a single moment. I thought his best ideas were rip-offs of REM videos. Finally, the sign of a story without ideas is to go with the Deus Ex Machina ending....it's raining frogs! Oooooooooooooh, so Biblical and deep! Anderson is the Creed of filmmakers and "Magnolia" was like one of Scott Stapp's worst bowel movements. That's my pick.
Twister "What's an F5?" -the stunned silence broken only by a dropped fork onto a plate Total garbage
