| Re: Disney BUYS Marvel for $4 Billion. |
Subject: Re: Disney BUYS Marvel for $4 Billion.
by JMPerkins on 2009/9/2 14:27:16
I don't think it's going to make that big a difference to the comic part of Marvel. The movies may be a different matter, but the movies are what made Disney buy them and they're making money. And that's the name of the game.
Although, it's not like Disney could do a worse hatchet job on the comics to movies. Marvel does perfectly fine all on their own. I'll give credit to Iron Man and Incredible Hulk, but be serious... the X-Men movies are a far cry from what they should have been. I first started reading X-Men just before the Phoenix saga when Byrne/Claremont created what are legendary stories now. I was so excited when I heard someone was finally making an X-Men movie.... what a disappointment. I would never have imagined Cyclops as such a big pussy. They all got their asses handed to them.
But, I do own most if not all the Marvel movies and I still watch the X-Men movies, Daredevil, both Hulk movies, Elektra, both FF movies, both Punisher movies and Iron Man, which is probably my favorite. So, out all of those, how many were close to the original stories?
Back to the original topic, will Disney screw up Marvel? I don't think so. Disney has deep pockets and willing to take chances.
---- stepping off soap box now.
Next?
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I'm going to correct myself now. Spider-Man was very close to the origin story and definitely my favorite.
One of the things I wanted to mention before was the Wolverine debacle. One of the main reasons Wolverine became one of Marvel's most popular characters was the violence and bloodiness. The movies made a mess of that. They all should have had an R rating but the target audience was young teenagers that couldn't get into R rated movies so they really mellowed him out. That goes back to the whole money issue. Marvel movies make money. Disney won't change that.
---putting soap box away far away.
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