Comic lovers and their movies

Rating: 7/10 (24 October 2007)

I'm a little behind the times, as I just saw this movie recently. I saw the comments of those who have faithfully followed the AvP comics, and read of all the ways that the director and writers fell short. I can understand, as I have been a loyal follower of the Xmen series for a long time now, and when those movies came out I couldn't help but mentally rip the script to shreds. However, I must say that there is a paradox for directors and writers when converting and abridging such a deeply complex series into a two hour movie. I've also seen this with the other series' I've read that were turned into movies. Like Harry Potter and sorts. I think the only director I've seen effectively do a book justice is Peter Jackson with LOTR, and that was largely to do with the fact that, in addition to being a very gifted director, he being given a blank check by New Line (only to be screwed later by them), and making a very long movie so he could fit in most of what Tolkien had originally written. Yet I have had to learn and except that most of the time that movies that are converted from beloved books and comics are not going to be close to what we envision when we read them. I think it is our job as the readers and fans to be patient with the process and not take the movie's shortcoming so personally.