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Originally Posted by JD10367
The biggest problem--or maybe not "problem", but the biggest issue people will have with the film--is that it's very sci-fi. Much more sci-fi than people will be expecting. You've got phaser guns, space ships, a sciency backplot closer to "Prometheus" than Superman... it gives the whole film a bit of a "War Of The Worlds", "Independence Day" feeling. At first I didn't like it at all. But after the film, I got to thinking: in today's world, the alien-ness of the storyline deserves to have more airtime. As does humanity's reaction to it. In the comics, people just sort of shrug it off; this film does a much more realistic interpretation of how humanity would react to finding out there's life in the universe, and some of that life is right here on Earth, and sort of all-powerful.
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It will be interesting to see how 'John Q Public" responds to more and more outlandish sci-fi creeping into the super hero genre. Honestly, it makes sense because what else are you going to pit an superbeing against that works? Another super powered being of course.
But up till this point, the most popular super hero movies were Nolans Batman and Ironman, who techically dont have any superpowers. Just rich guys who can create super machines and gadgets. and of course those movies went with the more realistic and earthbound stories. Now, even the Marvel movies are headed into more and more sci-fi with the Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy, Cronos, etc.
It will all be dictated by box office of course. Green Lantern had a ton of sci-fi and the public didnt respond (it was also an awful movie). I would assume most comic book nerds love the sci-fi stuff and "general audiences" wont respond to it as much.
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