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<blockquote data-quote="Mercutio01" data-source="post: 4947428" data-attributes="member: 37277"><p>I feel about this trailer the same contempt I do for the Sherlock Holmes trailer. It's about the amount of faith to the character (read: name and look only) and changes just about every other detail in such a drastic, and bad, way as to make me vehementy reject the possibility of even daring to watch the films.</p><p></p><p>It's one thing to change a story completely and talk about it as a different vision of a character--like the various Batman movies have done. It's another thing completely to create a de facto "official" film interpretation of a character and to stray so far from the source material. The addition of a demon trailing Kane and the implied "deal with a devil" are story elements that belong in Spawn, not Solomon Kane.</p><p></p><p>For what it's worth, backstory for backstory's sake pisses me off just by existing. There's no backstory for Indiana Jones until the third movie, but does that make the other two (well, Raiders, anyway) less enjoyable? Is there any doubt about what Indiana Jones is? Personally, I thought the introduction of a back story actually made me like Indy less, and was a serious let-down. But then, I appear to be the only person in existence who would rather watch Temple of Doom a thousand more times than Last Crusade even once more.</p><p></p><p>I do not intend to support this movie in any direct fashion. Maybe when it comes out on DVD and Netflix has it I might deign to watch it. I think this looks like the exact analogy of Arnie's Conan is to Howard's Conan as Purefoy's Kane is to Howard's Cane. The only difference is the production value of the film, which isn't enough to sell it to me.</p><p></p><p>In short, not interested. Or rather, interested but only in the rubbernecking-as-you-drive-by-a-car-wreck interested.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercutio01, post: 4947428, member: 37277"] I feel about this trailer the same contempt I do for the Sherlock Holmes trailer. It's about the amount of faith to the character (read: name and look only) and changes just about every other detail in such a drastic, and bad, way as to make me vehementy reject the possibility of even daring to watch the films. It's one thing to change a story completely and talk about it as a different vision of a character--like the various Batman movies have done. It's another thing completely to create a de facto "official" film interpretation of a character and to stray so far from the source material. The addition of a demon trailing Kane and the implied "deal with a devil" are story elements that belong in Spawn, not Solomon Kane. For what it's worth, backstory for backstory's sake pisses me off just by existing. There's no backstory for Indiana Jones until the third movie, but does that make the other two (well, Raiders, anyway) less enjoyable? Is there any doubt about what Indiana Jones is? Personally, I thought the introduction of a back story actually made me like Indy less, and was a serious let-down. But then, I appear to be the only person in existence who would rather watch Temple of Doom a thousand more times than Last Crusade even once more. I do not intend to support this movie in any direct fashion. Maybe when it comes out on DVD and Netflix has it I might deign to watch it. I think this looks like the exact analogy of Arnie's Conan is to Howard's Conan as Purefoy's Kane is to Howard's Cane. The only difference is the production value of the film, which isn't enough to sell it to me. In short, not interested. Or rather, interested but only in the rubbernecking-as-you-drive-by-a-car-wreck interested. [/QUOTE]
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