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My Humble Opinion

posted 5 years ago by [deleted]
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Being a fan of comic book movies (ALL comic book movies - DC, Marvel, etc.), I have, for the most part, been happy with the movies made since 1978's glorious Christopher Reeve Superman, because when I was younger, superheroes were not treated with the respect they deserved. Most movies and TV shows (i.e. 1960's Batman) never treated them as anything other than campy exercises.
2000's X-Men changed all that, so I like them most of them (even the ones with questionable ideas behind them).
There have been a few I didn't care for (Howard The Duck, TMNT (never was a big fan of the comics), Transformers, but for the most part, I have liked (and in some cases, LOVED) all the superhero films from 2000 on.
My point is...I am not a nitpicker when it comes to continuity in superhero films, after all, I have always considered superhero films to be a subgenre of science fiction and you can do anything in scifi.
Know that film makers have to adapt stories to the screen, I have been okay with almost everything that they have put on the screen, and will continue to do so. After all, film makers could still be treating superheroes as campy, unsophisticated kiddie fare, but they haven't since 2000's "X-Men", In some instances, they have given us intelligent, thought provoking cinema.

[–] Otter (24464) 5 years ago

"...and you can do anything in scifi."

I'm going to disagree with that, in general terms. In sci-fi you really do have to be at pains to maintain believability, to establish what is possible and to provide a good reason for any violations of the laws of physics, and to make everything that isn't covered by the superpower or warp drive or whatever obey the laws of physics, and then you have to make establishing all that part of an entertaining story.

And that's why writing sci-fi is harder than a lot of people think it is.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

If Star Wars is sci-fi then anything can be sci-fi.

[–] Otter (24464) 5 years ago

Star Wars might fairly be called fantasy-with-spaceships, if anyone cared about defining such things.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Exactly.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

To Otter: Of course there are certain natural laws that have to be followed so the viewer can follow what appears to be real, but in science fiction, especially when talking about superpowers, natural laws do not apply (i.e. Dr. Strange)

[–] Otter (24464) 5 years ago

The "Doctor Strange" movie didn't even pretend to be sci-fi, it was about magic and sorcery! It violated the laws of physics with cheerful aplomb and was a heck of a fun movie, it thumbed its nose at the conventions of the hard sci-fi genre, where the laws of physics apply unless you've come up with a way around them that sounds scientific.

But the comic book movies aren't hard sci-fi, they're comic book movies. Basically the convention there is reality and the laws of physics apply to everyone unless they're stated to have superpowers, in which case the sky's the limit. No, the center of black holes is the limit, the sky is commonplace for superheroes!

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16160) 5 years ago

Summers8, is that you?

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Are you addressing me? I am not who you think I am. I am just a 67 year old movie buff.