Quote Originally Posted by Depression Moon View Post

This sounds like what I was saying the same thing as me. You're using the word problems which is negative. That could easily be replaced with failures with the same message getting across. It wouldn't have been a problem if it was great.
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Wow so I should look forward to it being bad and unfaithful, that sounds pretty dern depressing and I don't think anyone should go into a movie with lower expectations.
Yes, you should, cause you will never be disappointed

I only go into films like that when its an adaption, there are obviously just so many factors in moving one medium to another that cause some level of degradation. Name me one movie that was based off a novel, comic book, video game, or TV program that is as good as the original series in every way and stayed completely faithful to the story with no omissions.

Think you're only talking about X-III and Origins. I don't think it could've been that much worse. It had some pretty bad acting and scenes just seemed to jump at times. They're at one place one moment then another with no explanation as to how they got there.
As a long time X-Men fan collecting since the Jim Lee era I can tell you all the X-Men movies are when you compare them to the real series (well the films are better than the last decade at least). The movies are very unfaithful and take several liberties to the stories and characters, half the cast is aged wrong, no one in the films join as they are suppose to Rogue is no longer associated with Mystique, Sabertooth is an idiot and same with Toad. Nightcrawler is filled with angst and lost all of his humor and somehow gained weird tribal markings on his skin. Mystique is now some martial arts super soldier when the real Mystique was more of user of guns and couldn't ever keep her trap shut whereas she's a mute for most of the films. Senator Kelly gets killed in the first film (he's still alive in the books) and Magneto would never have used some B-Movie plan to turn the world leaders into mutants, he would have just stormed the place and wrecked havoc to prove mutant superiority. Striker is not even a character in the comic books, he was from one of the novels and he was not part of the Weapon X program.

The movies are completely unfaithful to the source material cause it ignores the majority of canon and just sticks with the basics of what made it work. Which is my point about the Avatar film. The first season would have to be made into a trilogy just to do it justice and the first season doesn't have enough material as a whole to make a compelling trilogy of movie so instead they took the highlights and went from there.

Fans are acting like MNS made Aang a space alien who travels into the future to save the world by collecting four elemental comic books and the whole thing ended with one of his not so twisted endings. It was not that bad. Take it from someone who has had to watch his childhood get butchered by Hollywood and the film industry.

Hollywood rarely cares if the film is up to the standards of the fans, they will watch it regardless and bitch about it later (course they could do it perfect and I think fans would still find something to bitch and moan about), the real goal is to make it draw in as many new fans as possible. Its not about artistic integrity, just the bottom line, but the movie industry has always been about business.