It seems as if every movie we see is inspired or is an adaptation from every book we read. It will sometimes honor and respect the book while others would fail to impress readers who were fans of these books to just be destroyed by a movie. You had movies like Sony’s Spider-Man films to Fox’s X – Men franchise that were an outstanding success. Then you had The Fantastic Four and Daredevil franchises and while they are not dreadful, these films failed in most of the important ways, which was that they failed to impress fans and were just not very strong films. Comics have existed since the 1930’s and have become popular throughout the ages. Some of them have even been used for propaganda in World War II, while still satisfying their readers. During World War II, the soldiers looked forward to the diversion and escapism of comics and the quality of the material was never as important as the connection to home that troops felt from reading these stories. Comic books have gone through an amazing and powerful journey rivaling that of the characters within them. Every panel in each page shows a glorifying piece of art that builds the story without saying a word. All of that emotion and action is shown in just twenty pages in one single issue. You have people like Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Frank Miller, Dan Slott and many more who continued the stories of these characters from each and every comic book come to life. What really helped these comics become more popular was when people decided to make movies out of them to make old fans go back and experience their childhood all over again while also attracting others who never even heard about these books. Some became really successful even changing the way movies were directed, some even won Oscars, while others failed to impress. So how should a comic book based movie be made? Should comic based movies stay faithful to their original comic? This question has been asked for years. Many feel that the movie is supposed to stay current with our timeline while others agree it should stick to its origins. I’ll be talking about three movies all based on comics; which are Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, Mark Webb’s Spider-Man, and Jon Watts Spider-Man, that took different routes in their development and try to decide if these movies should stick to the origins where they began.
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