I should have known this movie would suck when at the very beginning there were those lame facts about comics flashed on the screen. How anyone could like this movie is completely beyond me. In the theatre I saw it in, people were walking out it was so bad. My friend and I, who were brave enough to stay, were actually laughing in certain scenes, so ridiculous it was. All of the emotion was contrived, and utterly bathetic. The scene with the little boy about to shoot the dad!?!? Where did that come from? This director has some sort of fetish for prepubescent whimpering boys. The "twist" at the end, was completely predictable, and did nothing to save this horrible train wreck of a movie. The only people I can imagine liking it are total nerds, whose immature fascination with comic books leads them to attach themselves to anything that might elevate their obsession beyond its truly dorky baseness.
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I should have known this movie would suck when at the very beginning there were those lame facts about comics flashed on the screen. How anyone could like this movie is completely beyond me. In the theatre I saw it in, people were walking out it was so bad. My friend and I, who were brave enough to stay, were actually laughing in certain scenes, so ridiculous it was. All of the emotion was contrived, and utterly bathetic. The scene with the little boy about to shoot the dad!?!? Where did that come from? This director has some sort of fetish for prepubescent whimpering boys. The "twist" at the end, was completely predictable, and did nothing to save this horrible train wreck of a movie. The only people I can imagine liking it are total nerds, whose immature fascination with comic books leads them to attach themselves to anything that might elevate their obsession beyond its truly dorky baseness.