Why are comic book fans so anal about super hero movies?

[scnd]

The Wolverine movie wasn't the /be all - end all/ that we wanted it to be, and my only major complaints fall under Victor's (Sabertooth's) scripting and Deadpool not staying true to the comic book, and the movie being PG-13 (hence developed for people outside of the source material's target audience).

Personally i feel that Logan is a deep wartorn character with a history, and the film captured that. Everything else was a creative choice.

 

[Susan Arendt]

I am hearing two completely different reviews of the new Wolverine movie.

One side is going on and on about how it isn't faithful to the original story, Deadpool isn't done the right way, the action is campy, and on and on...

Yet I equally hear from veteran comic book fans that the movie exceeded their expectations.

I am unsure who to believe. Nonetheless I must pose the question: WHY are comic book fans so anal? I mean look at the Lord of the Rings movies. The fans of the books KNOW Tom Bombadil and so many others things were removed from the original story, yet most people tend to accept the movies. Why superhero movies never get this same respect is beyond me...

Anywho, your thoughts please.

Beg to differ. The LOTR fans I knew were positively enraged that Tom Bombadil had been left out of the movies. Enraged.

 

[CuddlyCombine]

Remember that whole thing about video killing the radio star? Well, the same thing is happening here. Where music artists thought that music videos would be a tool to distract watchers from the poor quality of their music, comic book fans are worried their comics will get simplified to the grave or twisted out of shape.

Also, comic book characters tend to have a lot of backstory. Any major superhero or villain has been featured in at least 50 different spinoffs, and, if most of those are canonical, has a Bible's worth of flavour information for the taking. Since it's impossible for a movie to realistically capture that without turning into a reading session, the personality of your hero/villain gets much less explored and built upon.

This is all one huge generalization, though. Not all of them hate the movies.

 

[Biek]

For the same reason gamers are anal about videogame movies.

 

[bindox]

Now I must go hiss at noises and snarl at passing trucks.

Make sure you hiss into the front grill of the passing truck or it won't hear you.

 

[Dale Cooper]

I enjoyed Wolverine as a pop-corn flick, take it for what it is and have a laugh at the really awful bits, and because of this I was able to enjoy it.

However, I would have rather have seen the Origin comic book made into a movie by Marvel. I know it will be an unpopular thing to say but I thought both Marvel's Iron and New Hulk were much better than The Dark Knight Returns. They were more fun and in the spirit of comic books.