I don't know what "The Marvel" is. You say it's a money-making machine. How come I have never heard of "The Marvel"?
RE: Batman Begins/The Dark Knight- the auteur is in plain sight Chris. When I watch these two movies now, all I notice is Chris Nolan's direction. You are right he's High Concept, but not of the kind that Jerry Bruckheimer is so famous for. Nolan's got intellect on his side. He could be seen to be pandering in a way, but who isn't who makes a comic book movie? At base the very act is pandering to fans.
Chris Nolan assumes the audience is smart. Jerry Bruckheimer just hopes they have a couple hours to kill.
I just watched Batman Begins again, and I see almost no flaws. I don't like Katie Holmes. And what a distraction she is now- her marriage imploded and it's all you think about when you see her as Rachel Dawes. Warner Brothers was right to give her the boot for promoting Cruise's War of the Worlds over Batman in 2005
The Spirit was made into a movie, but I don't think you would like it at all. It's Frank Miller's Spirit, and it tanked huge.
But I like it. They definitely should do a faithful movie of Will Eisner's art, like Tin-Tin.
Plastic Man would be a great film too. He can be seen in some of the animated DC cartoons, but no movie has been made yet.
He would be a great movie character. They kind-of did it with Mr. Fantastic in The Fantastic Four movies.
Critical rankings don't concern me, especially two comic book movies like Avengers and Thor.
I give them both the same grade. I enjoyed them equally the same- no one better than the other.
Marc Webb can't sniff Oliver Stone's boots. That ranking is pitting a Giant against a flavor of the month director.
I reckon Marc Webb could never make something like Nixon or Platoon. Never in his life would he be able to.
Andrew Garfield does seem perfect for the role- way better than Tobey Maguire, who looked like he was acting the whole time.
That said, the first 2 Sam Raimi Spider-Mans were very good. Thumbs up. But #3 blows donkey balls and always will.
That series imploded because of that movie.
We see this new reboot because of that movie.
I can't even LOOK at the cover of that DVD, it's so horrible. Hudson Hawk horrible. Howard the Duck horrible.
Comic book Masterpieces have been made, but there are only a scant few of them.
The Dark Knight is probably the closest we've seen to a Comic book Masterpiece.
The cast, the characters, the drama, the tension, the score, the action, the camerawork (can I say IMAX?)- Nolan is the full meal deal, and I can't wait to sit in front of another Batman in just over a week.
If only he'd think about Aquaman. LOL I can dream, can't I?
Imagine a Chris Nolan Aquaman movie. It would be something else.
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