Stop locking the appreciation threads!

[The Brain]

Originally posted by Jimbo
spiderman to me just followed like a typical super hero/action hero plot. there was nothing outstanding about it. any movie where i can easily tell what's going to happen bores me.

OK, that's certainly a fair argument.

But the problem most of us have always had with video game or comic book translations to the big screen is that the director/producer/scriptwriter/whoever moves so <i>far away</i> from the source material, the only thing recognizable (usually) is the character names.

Remember the <i>Mario Bros.</i> movie? It was a bad idea to make it in the first place, and much worse to set it in something that didn't look like what you find at the arcade.

Have you read our constant arguments in any <i>Batman</i> thread here about how Schumacher fucked up the series?

At least they've stayed pretty-- not completely, but mostly-- faithful to the entire Spidey storyline. Which is good, because it's what most of us want to see played out on screen.