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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 3568264" data-attributes="member: 158">That's pretty much my take on it as well. The movie makers will muck around with the plot and specifics as they want or need to; as long as they capture the feel of the genre and the characters, that's all that matters to me. It's why I wound up liking -- nay, enjoying the first FF movie. They succeeded in capturing the personalities and interactions of the characters I grew up with. First and foremost, the FF is a family, and they managed to make it show through the movie - their squabbles, their learning to live together, their acceptance of one another, and (I gotta say) I enjoyed the showing of the FF as accepted heroes to the general public, as they usually were in the comics.I remember power-switching in the original comics, and I seem to recall it in some various What-If type stories, too; it's within the genre, and therefore cool to me. Peter Parker may have been bitten by a gene-altered spider, but the core of the character (geek who becomes cool and learns there's responsibilities with it) wasn't tampered with. Gwen Stacy? They really tampered with her, and I disliked that part of Spider-Man 3; but overall, it still didn't mangle the genre too much.Heck, they REALLY mangled Lord of the Rings, when you get down to it -- but they didn't touch the core of the story, and it's popularity bore that out.So far, I'm liking what I see about FF2, and hopefully it'll be successful enough for a FF3 - I'm not looking for Doctor Zhivago, just a cool summer movie.</blockquote>

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