Preacher is the only american "superhero"-ish comic I can stand (relatively low-key supernatural stuff with a few exceptions). It's pretty awesome. Good characters and well-written. They should make a movie based on that instead of all of these re-boots.
preacher really is getting made into a movie
i posted it on one of the "movie" threads in another forum... i just can't remember which one
preacher comic was awesome
the spiderman movies in the 80s were not theatrical releases, they were "made-for-tv-movies"
Unbreakable was awesome, way way better than anything else that M Night Shamalan made, the only thing that i didn't like was that it was never advertized as a "superhero" movie, it was really just advertized as "another movie by the same director as the 6th sense", also, when i rented the version of the DVD that contained extra scenes "not seen in theaters" i saw that with each of these scenes you can clearly see exactly where each "deleted" scene would have been in the movie, and each and every one of these "extra" scenes really should have been in there, if all of those extra scenes had been in the theatrical release, all those 6th sense fans would have been better able to tell exactly what the hell was going on, especially considering the fact that, because of the way it was advertized, a huge amount of the people that saw unbreakable on the opening day were people that didn't know anything about superheros
i didn't even realize it was a superhero movie untill about a week after the opening day when my freind called to complain that a movie that had been advertized as a horror movie turned out to be a superhero movie
in response to post number 70
i thought re-telling the "origin story" was just standard part of doing a re-boot, something done as part of establishing that this new movie is part of a brand-new movie universe, except for that whole weird-ass "superman returns" thing where brandon routh's movie was supposed to be a direct-sequel to superman 2 but we're supposed to somehow pretend that superman 3 and superman 4 just didn't happen, that idea sounded as weird as hell when it happened, but i really think that it really could have worked pretty well for the spiderman franchise, if you re-watch the last 30 seconds of spiderman 2, it looks like it would be pretty easy to make the first 5-20 min of spiderman 3 take place about 5 min after the end of spiderman 2, where the police hellicopter is responding to some sort of "supervillian" doing something on the rooftop of a skyscraper or maybe adrian toomes (spell?) wearing the vulture wings
