Funny how this is the most celebrated graphic novel of all time and I've never heard of it. In any case, it looks interesting, not your typical superhero/vigilante flick. The fanciful sci-fi aspect is eye-catching and will probably garner a nice turnout opening night (not to mention the host of fans that are teeming over this).
Staying true to its origins, the superheros look fresh out of a comic book with neon spandex, capes, and the whole nine. But if you're going to go that far, you better go all the way. Half-doing a sci-fi film/comic book movie of this "caliber" would be atrocious. You might as well go as "over-the-top" as you can. And when I saw the submarine ascend out of the water into gravity-defying flight and propulsion, I knew this is what they are going for (with the psychedelic music to top it off). Not to mention the electrified, flying blue guy (meant to represent an all-powerful being in the story).
More than anything, for those who haven't read the comic-book, sheer curiosity will get them to the theater. For the fans, I hope their beloved story is done proper justice. I must say, the odds are against them, seeing as these film adaptations notoriously don't do well. We'll see if it can prove history wrong. The plot looks to be a band of heros who are forced to stop fighting crime, then called on again to save the city. Sounds like an "Incredible" knock-off...
Never heard of it? Pretty new to comics then, eh?
I am curious as to what you mean by these film adaptations notoriously not doing well... Most of the recent comic films have done more than well, like the recent
The Dark Knight.
Spider Man, X-Men, Iron Man, V For Vendetta... These films all did fine, and many more. Which ones were you talking about? Which History needs to be proven wrong?
Your guess at the plot is completely off base, btw, so I doubt this will be anything like
The Incredibles. Read the series and you will see what I mean.
However, I have already heard some (clearly uninformed and unfounded) critiques leveled at this film, in that it rips off
Heroes, the television series. Horseshit.
Heroes ripped off
Watchmen, big time. Either that or it [Heroes] is steeped in homage for the seminal comic of the 80s. Still, I am betting a slew of people will walk out of the theater complaining about how
Watchmen stole its material from
Heroes. Bummer.
Hopefully still more people will look past the main story thread to the brilliant subtext of the material, if it remains intact, which after reading Sleezy's link, it seems it might.