Hulk not smash, deliver puny box office... just like MallratsThe Comics Journal has an interesting theory on the future of Marvel Comics and comic property movies. I've felt the exact same way since I heard that someone had optioned a Namor flick, calling it an "underwater Star Wars." Marvel has some great properties, X2 and Spider-Man were huge box office hits and I believe Daredevil still could be, but someone has to tell Avi Arad that there's a fine line between comic characters with huge mainstream appeal and characters who're just going to bomb. Namor is a definite bomb, as will be the Fantastic Four movie if it ever gets made. There's just no mass appeal for a mer-man, the son of an Antartic explorer and and the Queen of an underwater race of people, while the psuedo-comics science/suspension of disbelief it requires to follow a story about an ex-pilot, a scientist, his girl-friend and her younger brother who pilot a rocket into space, only to be bombarded by cosmic rays and be granted super-powers is too huge an obstacle to overcome with the public. Granted, Spider-Man and Daredevil have comic science origins, (and when will Marvel stop using that CGI DNA shot to explain that someone was changed?) but the beauty of these characters is the way they move on the movie screen, and the way their abilities are manipulated into a story. I've never heard anyone complain that they dislike 'The Matrix' because the character's powers are unbelievable. The FF are completely different story. All anyone is going to wonder is if "Mr. Fantastic can stretch his dinky also? And do you think The Thing is hard all over? I mean really all over." |
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