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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 1816704" data-attributes="member: 508">See, that's the kind of thing I really hate.&nbsp; I can live with making changes to superheroes when you make a movie based on a comic book; I understand perfectly that some things just don't translate to the screen that well, and I'm perfectly fine with having one version of the character in the comics and another version on the screen.&nbsp; So the X-Men movie has them in leather instead of spandex: I was fine with that.&nbsp; But then, some comic book head honcho gets it into his head: &quot;Waitaminute, we'll be confusing people who see the movie and then want to read comic books about the characters from the movie.&nbsp; We'd better go ahead and have the X-Men stop wearing their costumes and start wearing leather instead.&nbsp; Oh, and we'd better revamp the Toad so he looks more like his movie counterpart.&nbsp; And the next time we use Mystique, let's make her all bumpy-skinned like in the movie.&quot;&nbsp; The Spider-Man movie used the &quot;genetically-enhanced spider accident&quot; instead of the &quot;radioactive spider accident&quot; and Spider-Man ends up shooting webs from his own body.&nbsp; Again, I was fine with that -- in the movie.&nbsp; But why in the world do they always have to realign the comic books to fit the movie?&nbsp; They're two completely different media, people!This kind of stuff drives me crazy.Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 1816704, member: 508"] See, that's the kind of thing I really hate. I can live with making changes to superheroes when you make a movie based on a comic book; I understand perfectly that some things just don't translate to the screen that well, and I'm perfectly fine with having one version of the character in the comics and another version on the screen. So the X-Men movie has them in leather instead of spandex: I was fine with that. But then, some comic book head honcho gets it into his head: "Waitaminute, we'll be confusing people who see the movie and then want to read comic books about the characters from the movie. We'd better go ahead and have the X-Men stop wearing their costumes and start wearing leather instead. Oh, and we'd better revamp the Toad so he looks more like his movie counterpart. And the next time we use Mystique, let's make her all bumpy-skinned like in the movie." The Spider-Man movie used the "genetically-enhanced spider accident" instead of the "radioactive spider accident" and Spider-Man ends up shooting webs from his own body. Again, I was fine with that -- in the movie. But why in the world do they always have to realign the comic books to fit the movie? They're two completely different media, people! This kind of stuff drives me crazy. Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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