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Hain · 02-07-2008, 05:05 AM

Wow... I am amazed my father somehow did not take me to go see it when I was a kid.

Still, back to why I am afraid of an emphasis on CGI. We as the consumers of the entertainment industry have had some rather bad comic book adaptions forced on our plate... yet we ate it up. I won't drop any names //cough// ELEKTRA //cough cough// DAREDEVIL //cough// -excuse me- of the ones I didn't care for.

Some movies pull it off. I will admit I loved the comic book feel del Toro accomplished in Hellboy and am stoked about the next one. Yeah some of the effects were hokey, others were great. Overall, it was a really fun movie that got me to just relax and enjoy.

For me, I would not expect Iron Man to be a movie where the comic book feel would be emphasized. Think Batman Begins or The Punisher. Yes, Punisher had a lot of crazy things going on in it, just look at the Russian, but the movie was, in my opinion, a character-intense movie that Jane pulled off. Travolta's kinda sucked at the end... but c'est la vi. Both the movies mentioned are about an intense portrayal of the characters, not on the comic book feel... OK let's forget about the microwave emitter.

The character Stark suffers his demons and keeps some dark secrets (drinking, fragment in his heart), and went through an intense ordeal. To me, these make a perfect opportunity to make another intense-character based flick, and not some popcorn action-packed darkly-humorous with side stories up the wazoo flick.

Iff (if and only if) RDJ can make a really believable Stark, or some jerk gazillionaire engineer I want to become, I will probably just sit back and let the characters have their way with me, regardless of the CGI.

-Yes, that did sound bad-

02-07-2008, 05:05 AM	#43 (permalink)
Hain has a plan Location: middle of Whywouldanyonebethere	Wow... I am amazed my father somehow did not take me to go see it when I was a kid. Still, back to why I am afraid of an emphasis on CGI. We as the consumers of the entertainment industry have had some rather bad comic book adaptions forced on our plate... yet we ate it up. I won't drop any names //cough// ELEKTRA //cough cough// DAREDEVIL //cough// -excuse me- of the ones I didn't care for. Some movies pull it off. I will admit I loved the comic book feel del Toro accomplished in Hellboy and am stoked about the next one. Yeah some of the effects were hokey, others were great. Overall, it was a really fun movie that got me to just relax and enjoy. For me, I would not expect Iron Man to be a movie where the comic book feel would be emphasized. Think Batman Begins or The Punisher. Yes, Punisher had a lot of crazy things going on in it, just look at the Russian, but the movie was, in my opinion, a character-intense movie that Jane pulled off. Travolta's kinda sucked at the end... but c'est la vi. Both the movies mentioned are about an intense portrayal of the characters, not on the comic book feel... OK let's forget about the microwave emitter. The character Stark suffers his demons and keeps some dark secrets (drinking, fragment in his heart), and went through an intense ordeal. To me, these make a perfect opportunity to make another intense-character based flick, and not some popcorn action-packed darkly-humorous with side stories up the wazoo flick. Iff (if and only if) RDJ can make a really believable Stark, or some jerk gazillionaire engineer I want to become, I will probably just sit back and let the characters have their way with me, regardless of the CGI. -Yes, that did sound bad- __________________ ////\\// IRONSKY.NET \\//\\\\ Last edited by Hain; 02-07-2008 at 05:20 AM..