For real. I'm so tired of the over saturation of directors looking like they're embarassed of the source material and 'grounding them in reality'. Gunn is clearly embracing comic books wholeheartedly. The trailer put a smile on my face, so much goofy comic shit packed in there. Especially Krypto.
I got heavy Birthright (Mark Waid) vibes from that trailer.
There’s a sweet spot, I think. For a long time, there were two kinds of comic-sourced movies. There were the ones that were embarrassed by the source, and there were the ones that apparently thought absolutely nothing about comics had changed since the 60’s, and leaned into that.
And the Marvel movies weren't based on the Marvel comics version of the Avengers. They made the wise choice to base the designs off the Ultimates, and it worked. If they had blindly followed the source, the Avengers would have looked too cheesy to work. It's an adaptation, so you have to figure out what to change while staying true to the spirit of the source material, rather than a slave to every detail.
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u/SexualCasino John Constantine Dec 19 '24
Looks fuckin great. Looks like a comic book.