[Snowflakian]

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheSymbiote

well what about the costumes from watchmen,they didnt look bad.

Watchmen is a different scenario.

The story itself calls for costumes varying in styles over the ages. The modern costumes had a more modern spin on the entire idea.

It's basicly a world like kickass, only capes have been ingrained into the culture to the point of even having a bill in congress outlawing them. Not doing the costumes wouldn't have worked. This is one of those instances where it works on screen becaue of what the mini series itself is. A deconstruction of a costumed vigilante. As well as the costuming techniques to convey the eras in time of this new world where capes exist. Something like X-Men the first class can skate on costumes too, as it's the first class. This could be the class that made professor X realize spandex, or 'colorful costumes' don't exactly work. Sadly there are other issues here though with keeping movie-canon and using comic-canon. Scott, Jean, Warren, and Bobby specificly. Movie-canon denies their usage, and comic-canon requires it. So to remain comic accurate, ruins the movies that got them where they are to begin with.


There is a place where you can blend this though.

I mention this in one of my blogs even. TV can skate on many aspects that movies cannot. So while they can do more on tv with a spin-off series, they can then use the movies themselves for bigger events, marginally in canon but with the real world twist as they have been doing. Then we could get storylines like civil war, secret invasion, messiah war, and more, while still getting the verbatum comic accuracy on tv to build it up and be the proverbial hype machine.

Overall though, you have to balance the aspects, there are things that work on screen and things that don't. Just as there are creative teams willing to try, and those that'll just scoff at the aspect of including anything from comics. You have to find a happy balance for the best of both worlds, while not being sacrilegious to the source material. When the source material can go fully on screen though? USE IT! Don't pussy-foot around it just because you find 'comics' lame, and don't ruin what makes the comic great if it'd work, by making it the typical audience BS for acceptance. Making characters likable, giving them things so they have a happy ending, and more. When a comic isn't written like that, why do it onscreen? Especially when the entire point of a comic is those hardships? Like kick ass was. You can tell right off the bat with it, the changes were for pleasing the general audience, and those very changes are mildly dentrimental to the original intent of the comic itself in the type of story it tells.

It's like making romeo and juliet, but letting them have their happily ever after, if you do that, then it's not romeo and juliet.