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Prismsblade posted...

You're referencing crappy/mediocre comics with good potential premises turned into great shows/movies. Which isn't relevant to already great comics being made greater by directors as you claim. The last Thor movie was universally considered inferior to the comic and Strange 2 about the freaking multiverse of all things ended up dogshit.

The Sonic movie succeeded due to the directors understanding the source material and characters. Which is the differance between a success, or a flop. Hence why the synderverse bombed.

Also unlike comicbooks manga can't be transitioned to live-action 1-1. From their zany designs, hairstyles, clothes, world and action. All of it looks goofy as fuck in live action. So they're limited to either manga or animation by design.

Which is most comics. That's the whole point of my posts. All the "great" comics were the original stuff made in the very beginning/golden ages and all the rehashes starting from several decades ago have been mediocre. I have not heard anything about the later Thor and Dr. Strange movies even having a source material. They're completely original content as far as I know. If they were based off of existing comic arcs that just shows how little the original comic arcs matter.

Yup, exactly as a I said, they succeed by the directors despite the source material not being movie material. The sonic movies have completely unique plots with completely new characters set in a completely different setting.

The difference with manga is that mangas actually have a standard and are known more for the actual narrative and plot than the general premise. People can make a generalized premise adaption like the Netflix Death Note but it gets widely panned since the original source material's narrative is just so much stronger. People allow that for comics and stuff like Sonic since the source material's narrative isn't the strong part, it's the premise. It's why stuff with actual acclaimed narrative like The Last of Us are much more faithful.

Prismsblade posted...

Routinely? Nah. Most are either reboots or sequels and that's not changing anytime soon. If not for comicbooks the big cinema would be all but dead by now probabaly.

And there are as many alternative versions of characters as there are universes in the infinite multiverse. Which offers writers a infinitely sized sandbox to be as creative as they want without impacting the main continuity. Plus if the universe becomes a success they can add it to the multiverse and utilize it whenever. Or if not just forget about it. It's genius.

And idk what you're talking about in regards to them only pulling from its peak. Storys like spiderverse, or Thor 4 were adapted from storys within the past decade.

And quality wise mondern comicbook storys aren't any worse then older ones. So they're have plenty of source material to drawn from for many years to come.

There are way more new movies in Hollywood that come out that are completely new than related to a previous movie.
Your second paragraph just makes it clearer that the strength lies in MOVIE-ORIGINAL content, not the source material's writing.
As I've already said, the narratives of the movie Spiderverse and Thor are completely different than the source material's. All they do is share a loosely similar premise. That has barely anything to do with the original source material's writing. If the original was so good it'd make more sense to follow them faithfully.
And no, almost nobody is adapting modern content, unless your definition of modern extends to decades ago.