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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 892501" data-attributes="member: 3649">Change is generally needed when making a comics-based movie for many reasons. Time is limited, so there has to be room enough for both plot and explanations, esp. for a superhero film. (That really needs to be said, since movies like Bulletproof Monk and Men In Black are based on comics).Remember that very few people in this country read comics even casually (top red-hot-hot sellers today would have been cancelled 20 years ago due to low sales) and those who did and gave it up only have vague memories. Most people only remember that %^% Batman TV series. So, you've got  to present an entirely new unverse in terms most people will understand, within 120 minutes, AND get past the terrible mainstream reputation comics still have in this country.X-Men: Not really a great deal of change here, actually, save for some power levels and a few minor particulars. Spider-Man: Probably the best superhero movie ever made. Again, not too many changes. Gwen Stacey? Forget her. She was a bump in the road and she's been dead-dead for thirty years now. Batman: Again, not all that many changes. Somewhat less enjoyable for the casting, but then they also had the terrible weight of that %^$& TV show to overcome.Smallville: What changes they made are good. No, it doesn't resemble the comic continuity much at all. For older people who remember when there was a non-clone Superboy, it really doesn't resemble continuity. Smallville takes the standard teen drama and slips in bits of comic genre here and there; it's a stealth approach to appeal to people who'd never have watched Lois and Clark, much less a more action-oriented Superman show. I think the main reason comics fans don't argue so much as LOTR fans is that mainly we're happy to have anything that's not total crap on the big screen AND making tons of cash.</blockquote>

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