Posted by Runshouse21 at nytgate1.nytimes.com on March 19, 2004 at 13:47:36:
In Reply to: Comic Movies Today posted by Kemo Twa on March 19, 2004 at 13:37:07:
: Ok, I just want to pose a question that my friends and I have been kicking around for a while now.
: Do movies based on comics do justice to the comics they represent?
Yes
: Don't get me wrong, I love the line of comic movies that have come out (with a few exceptions) but I feel that they take a few too many liberties. What I mean to say is that I was having a conversation with a girl who had never picked up a comic in her life; she was all excited to have a newfound comic knowledge so I let her tell me about each character. I didn't have too much of a problem until I heard her refer to Wolverine as "the main guy." Now, I like Wolverine as much as any comic collector but I wouldn't consider him THE main character of the X-Men series. Perhaps I'm taking it a bit far but now that I watch X-Men I notice that it deals mostly with Logan. He has interesting plot line, yes, but so does a lot of the Professor Xavier's elite.
I see what you mean but disagree... you are comparing 2 movies to Thousands of books. No matter how they made the X-men movie someone would have come off as the "Main Guy" Do I think they took a liberty with it.. nope... its just a consequence of doing a story on the big screen that has decades of past cannon.
I want a JINX movie myself.