I personally want to travel to hollywood and rip the testicles of the higher up as and feed it to them. I just saw the trailer through the window in curry's. I was watching thinking what the hell is this generic peice of crap and it slowly dawned on me what i was seeing. I am weeping openly.
Those super heroes that made the comic so awesome seem to have been removed. Its just a shoot'em up film as far as i could tell with angelena jollie having more of a part than she should. oh and the guy playing the lead looks really young and not the mid 20's lifeless man that made it so interesting. Prepare to rant people, hollywood have F***ed us again _________________ Ninjarific
ok i have just come back from seeing this...and to be quite frank i havent got F***ing clue what the hell to make of it. i think this is yet again hollywood not getting the point...again, i only think that Jolie bothered to read the GN out of all the cast, i think the Dir was the wrong choice as well. it kind of felt a lot like the kind of movie john woo would of been told to make it for some big u.s studio 10 years ago.yes the action was very good but this alone a film does not make.although i also get the feeling the source material was not really taken seriously, it kind of felt that it was kind of being played for one big joke, i am sure when it comes out on dvd adolescents and those with the emotional maturity of one will embrace it whole.
I did enjoy it a lot - in the same vein as Shoot Em Up - but I think you have to forget this is in any way connected with the comic of the same name. Actually I can't really remember the comic all that well, but it is not just a matter of "some things being slightly changed", you are right, it is a whole new story where the lead characters have the same names.
There are some great SFX with bullets and trains, some unanswered questions and some satisfying violence. Go in expecting a mindless, completely unrealisitc summer film and you will not be disappointed.
Yesterday I didn't think I could be bothered to go but I am glad I did.
For me it is the film the Matrix should have been - an unknown man discovers incredible fighting powers and uses them in all out action scenes just for the pure joy of them with no "philiosophy for dummies" rubbish that someone had copied down out of wikipedia. _________________
i was told today that the movie rights where sold before the first issue of the comic was put into print. ive spent the last few days thinking about this movie and i guess the best thing i can come up with is that this movie is kind of like LXG all over again. and like LXG it kind of leaves the point out. the wanted comic is a cutting analysis of the supervillian and begs questions about the way the way the west views violence in terms of entertainment.
still makes quite a cool big dumb action movie, lots of fun.
i was told today that the movie rights where sold before the first issue of the comic was put into print.
Wow - kind of shows the film makers didn't care at all about the story then. Strange property to do that with though - it is not like it is a hugely known story that non comics people would have come to see because of the name.
norsefire1 wrote:
ive spent the last few days thinking about this movie and i guess the best thing i can come up with is that this movie is kind of like LXG all over again. and like LXG it kind of leaves the point out. the wanted comic is a cutting analysis of the supervillian and begs questions about the way the way the west views violence in terms of entertainment..
Both very true points. If you love the comic you will probably be annoyed and disappointed.
LXG is a good comparison of its relation to the comic (although not the quality of the film I would say)
It really does have no sub text for deeper discussion and, in fact, goes right against the idea of violence as entertainment being a problem - in fact it postively glories in it. Personally I have no problem with it doing that on its own terms (I like a bit of cathartic violence in my media), but, yes, why not just make your own action film and not spend the money on the license? _________________
to be quite cynical about it i think a studio buying up a license is all about cash makeing. i think if a movie can be tied into a comic, game, rpg, book then i think that the studio wanting to get bums on seats from the fans who like the media the movie is based on. and i think that its getting to levels of explotation of a license when a studio buys rights to something that has yet to be created in full.
I think that this is a strange case of stripping it to the bone, the fact that there was still story enough to make a movie is either
1. a credit to Mark Miller
2. a discredit to the movie audience
But like Constantine, its proof beyond belief that the source material can be largely ignored.
Get used to it, its going to happen again, and again, and again, ask the Novel Writer.
the one thing we can hope for, and the ONLY thing we can hope for, is that the movie is good.
i have not seen Wanted yet, but will, and i am in hope that enough of the substance remains, and that it will be a high octane roller coaster ride. like i have said i haven't seen it yet. so i may be talking shit.
so in my mind what makes this more tolerable that Constanteen?
well see if you can work that one out yourselves
If I'm wrong on this i wholly humble myself
but if I'm right i will also gloat.
In the meantime, i will let you know when ive seen it.
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