I read Kevin B's Blog about super hero/comic book movies and i absolutely agree. But this isn't just with comics or superheros. the film industry has always butchered the written word of stories when they are transferred into a movie. My brother and I have had countless arguments or debates where we agree that the director and producer had altered the story line from the actual story and essentially ruined the essence of the character. Deadpool was a perfect example! There is a level when it is somewhat acceptable to alter a character in order to make the film more intriguing or enticing to the audience but when you completely alter the main essence of the character it ruins it for those of us who understand their true origins.
Another example of this that really bothered me was watching the movie Watchmen. I went out of my way to avoid watching it before I finished the graphic novel and i thought it was an amazing comic! The characters have all of their own stories which all fall into each of the other characters stories as well. And the end was great. It made sense, and worked. When i finally got around to renting the movie and watching it I was shocked that it has such difference in it. For one thing, Night Owl in the comic is nerdy 100% of the time, he is awkward, and very scientifically oriented. His costume even looks goofy and he isn't this buff young man, he is probably in his late 30s, and he is a complete and utter dork. When you watch the movie, he has his dorky side when he is not in costume, but once he is in costume he completely loses his dorky side and he is this masculine, buff, hero who wears this costume that is black and accentuates his muscles. The only thing that reminds you of an owl when you see him in the movie is his helmet/mask/hood type thing. In the comic he literally looks like an owl. Then in the end, the movie had a completely different ending from the novel, and apparently it was because they felt that audiences would get upset if they destroyed New York City.
Going beyond the comic realm, Eragon was completely defiled by the movie industry. They took this awesome book that was, granted, very long, but every part of the book was needed for the rest to make sense, and the special effects were seriously lacking in order to pull of the final battle in Farthen Dur. Major key elements of the whole time Eragon spends there that affect him in the later novels were missing. Also the turning point in the battle revolved around the breaking of the huge Star Rose or Star Sapphire, that was treasured and important to the dwarf mountain, not only as a piece of beauty, but as a symbol for the time of the dragon riders, and how the breaking of the sapphire symbolized a changing of the times again.
It is rare that you will ever find a movie that can do justice to a written work. Many Nicholas Sparks novels are often done in film extremely well. However that is because they are written mostly with the essence of true life and reality, and they read like a movie which tends to be rare of most novels. However, in the grander scheme of things, the films are usually not as bad as people make them out to be. If you hadn't read the book or known the comic, then the movie is able to stand on it's own. Although i do agree with you Kevin, they totally ruined Deadpool.
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