'Thor' fans protest black actor

[LuckyKBoxer]

Guys its a damn Marvel Comicbook movie.
Its based on the marvel comics universe.
you guys are reaching all over the place lol.
this is not some documentary on the history of the emergence of Norse mythology...
the source material is pretty to the point, its right there for all to see at anytime.
we are talking about people who are in most cases lifelong fans of the comic books and the characters who are complaining because this rails against what they grew up on, imagined, and fantisized about for years based on the pictures in comicbooks.
I think I already made my thoughts clear that changing a relatively minor character in the story doesnt bother me, but the biggest gripe most comic book fans have is when these movies change things up so drastically... its why the xmen movies and fox are hated by comicbook fans for what they did to the characters... especially deadpool in the last wolverine movie.
unfortunately I think alot of these fans are being a little more then unrealistic..
if it was up to them the comicbook movies would cost in the billions, last for dozens of hours, and only appeal to a small percentage of the public.
unfortunately for the comic book fans, the studios have fractions of that budget, about 3 hours at the most to tell stories, and have to make changes to appeal to the largest possible audience...
as long as the story is good, the main characters are not changed to much from the source material, and it sparks my memories of a childhood spent devouring comicbook stories and art then I am happy.

 

[Omar B]

It's been a while since I read the book...but how close is the movie to it...
(ignorance is bliss sometimes: I always rather enjoyed Bond movies, not knowing there were actual books...)

It was a decent movie but a far cry from a good CR adaptation. The 2 first kills were wrong, he used a sniper rifle in Rockefeller Center, NY for the first and strangled the second. The setting was moved from France to Montenegro this eliminating why the assigned Bond to the case (He's been going to Casino Royal almost every weekend to gamble since college so him being there would not raise an eyebrow). Le Chiffre is not a pimp owning a string of "hotels" up and down the coast of the small town Royal Le Aux.

Then we get to The Bahamas, where they tell the actual Quantum Of Solace story from a parallel POV. Rich man, adulterous wife, sleeps with men at her husband's club.

There's no attempt to blow up Bond with an explosive planted on the walkway from the casino.

I could go on, but it's not needed. The actual adaptation of the book doesn't start till about halfway through the movie when they Bond, Matthis and Vesper are having lunch. Oh, and turning one of Bond's greatest allies Matthis into a traitor I hated to no end. The guy's saved Bond's life many times over the years and the two are like brothers.

It sticks kinda close to the book till Bond is in recovery, then it veers off wildly again. Matthis is arrested as a traitor, Vesper does not kill herself with an overdose of pills and leaves Bond a letter explaining everything. They also left out the speech where Bond explains who he is and why he does what he does.

As far as portrayal, DC was close, but Dalton was closer.

 

[Omar B]

Look at the awesome! http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansi...rs_Featured_New_High-Resolution_iTHORi_Images

 

[granfire]

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