Based on…what, exactly?

Based on my impression that the movie at least, “appears to have a plot” that wasn’t lifted from the emotionally retarded fanfic writings of one of the trench coat mafia kids.

I mean,

… really? What were the highlights of Wanted?

1- That the main characters were so bad ass that they got to kill all the Superheoes? (Isn’t that the stuff of sophomoric playground arguments? Who’s stronger, Superman or Capt.Marvel/Shazam? ANSWER: Neither, ’cause Wes and the Secret Society killed them all!)

2- Or my two personal highlights… Fuckwit and Shithead. ‘Cause nobody has never thought that “shit” or retarded people are funny.

3- Or the fact that the first thing the main character does once he finds out he is above the law is go and rape Britney Spears (or some sort of Hollywood star). You know, ’cause that screams “subtext” as opposed to “writer thinks he has a clever idea after watching Skinemax and squeezing one for the team.”

So basically, the movie may or may not be good; but at least it “looked” better than what an emotionally challenged 9 year old fanboy may think “would be kewl” to see on a comic book “but DC and Marvel wouldn’t allow it”.

Hell, now that I think about it. I’m surprised Millar didn’t get Jones to draw the Thing’s “dong”.

It seems to me that Hollywood is making a superior Wanted!!!

Based on…what, exactly?

It seems to me that Hollywood is making a superior Wanted!!! Far better than what Millar did with his creation, in his/its own medium… the comic book.

Can’t wait for somebody to point this out to “the Savior of the Motion Picture Industry”, “the self proclaimed best thing to NEVER have happened to the Superman Movie Franchise”… Mr. Mark Millar!!!

And I use the term “Mister”, loosely.

And while Spider-Man> is hardly deep and profound, it indisputably connects with mainstream American sensibilities in a way Wanted the comic book (deliberately) doesn’t. The latter is, in many ways, one big, long, self-indulgent in-joke about superhero comics and their audience. That does not a successful big-budget script make, regardless of how any of us rate the quality of the source material or the in-joke.

You want to see that on film, rent Kevin Smith’s Dogma, the pre-Wanted #1 film that gave Millar his derivative Shithead death scene.

The main problem I have with the trailer is that quite honestly, this is the most boring trailer ever released by Bekmambetov’s standards, especially in comparison to the Day Watch trailer. There really isn’t anything visually exciting or unexpected to be seen in here, and coming from a director who is as style over substance as Bekmambetov, that’s a pretty bad sign for me.

Wow, that seems…very different.

Makes you wonder why they’re even doing it as an adaptation. It literally looks like they could just change the names and not have to pay a dime in movie rights.

It’s not all that different. They’ve taken away the costumes, but the basic concept looks the same to me

Makes you wonder why they’re even doing it as an adaptation. It literally looks like they could just change the names and not have to pay a dime in movie rights.