10 Ways To Fix The Biggest Superhero Movie Problems

4. Live Action Doesn€™t Equal Film

Alex Ross Justice League One of the biggest disappointments in comic book adaptations has actually been in the form of animation. If Marvel says that special effects and cost impairs their ability to be faithful to the source material I can totally buy that, but animation mitigates all of those issues so what€™s the excuse then? DC has taken advantage of the animation market with more consistency than their cross town rivals, but have played fast and loose with their interpretation of the source material. I€™ve heard many arguments as to why it€™s necessary to almost arbitrarily change stories that are obviously being marketed to the readers, but none of them have been satisfactory. Ask any comic book fan and they would go on and on about how cool it would be to actually see The Death of Superman in animated form, but what did they get? Some crap. Why? If they could make that hour and a half of complete horses#!t then DC could have just told the damn story. They own all their IP€™s, so they could have included every character and major event from that story. How compelling was the argument that they could do a better job than Dan Jurgens, and how come whoever made that argument wasn€™t immediately shown the door or at least executed by Jurgens himself? Jay Baruchel blogged about the cancelled JLA project that was going to be filmed in motion capture CGI style like Beowulf. I immediately felt cheated, how could such a dream project that could have faithfully captured the essence of the super hero genre come that close to completion just to be dumped so I could sit through six plus hours of Pack-a-Day Batman (You have no idea how hard it is to type with your fists balled up)? I always felt like I could look past really dumb comic book movies if the companies nailed it in animation, because those are worthy film mediums in their own right, but no. Marvel isn€™t the House of Ideas, it€™s the house where dreams go to die.
 
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Dante R Maddox got started in writing about pop culture in 2007. He developed his conversational style majoring in English and minoring in speech communication, his desire to write as if he were speaking to the reader face to face was the bane of many professors. An odd blend of geek cred and regular fella chic', you're just as likely to end up talking about baseball or politics as you are about comic books and movies (just don't mention Tucker Carlson, you are addressing the man who will go to jail for assault in the future after all). He wrote a book called The Lineage of Durge that's available on Amazon for a small amount of money, he's writing a second while acting as Editor-in-Stuff over at Saga Online Press, there is a graphic novel expansion of his book series also in the works as well as continued development of his cheesecannon, one day Canada...one day (Seriously, a piece of ham, you slice it up and now it's bacon?!?!? I say thee nay!!!)