> >>WHy do we keep saying this? Did everyone up and lose their >>imagination? Does Harry Potter not move tickets? Lord of the >>Rings flopped? Since when can the American audience not >handle >>an alien? >> > >Thank you and Hood for pointing this out. Here's the deal, if >you're going to go to a hyper-stylized movie about superheroes >one of which is a giant naked blue man but a giant dead alien >squid makes you go "they had me up until the squid!", then >please stop going to the movies. People are acting like >they're going to see the English Patient then at the end it >becomes StarWars. Just stop it. >
That's the thing that's getting to me. The movie seems 1000x more stylized than the comic. Out of 12 issues, did the comic even have 5 splash pages? The costumes were supposed to look ridiculous, and the characters admitted it. I look at the trailers and I see cool poses, costumes that seem pretty workable, and slow motion. Now, I got no beef with this stuff, but people are acting like throwing the alien in there would be some kind of pump fake. I'd bet that any of the thousands who saw the trailers and ran out to buy the book were surprised at how serious the subject matter actually was given what the trailers showed.