by O.Supreme » Tue Dec 12, 2017 4:45 pm
As a huge fan of animation, I'm not sure what to think. It's just sad that with so many great ideas that could be made into an animated theatrical film (Infinity War??!?), they go with something like this. But then I have to temper my disappointment. I love animated films, but history shows that general audiences just don't seem to. Batman: The Mask of the Phantasm is arguably one of the BEST Batman films ever period. Yet many people don't even know it exists, and it did have a theatrical run in December 1993. (Also this was not a film made for video and converted for a short run like The Killing Joke - MotP was always intended to be theatrical).
Now that being said, I want to get a couple of *PC* issues out of the way...
1. All the people complaining that Spider-Man should not be black are idiots. This is a new character, Miles Morales, he has been around for a while, even an old fogey like myself can acknowledge this. I'm totally ok with this. The trailer shows Peter Parkers tombstone, as established in the original storyline from this take on Spider-man THIS IS NOT PETER PARKER... This is a story about Miles, and apparently different characters all donning the guise of Spider-Man. Also while I may not care for many of the new characters Marvel is creating (Amadeus Cho Hulk, Riri Williams Ironheart etc...), I am ok with them all, because they are new characters. What would irritate me is if an established character such as Peter Parker, although being fictional, was changed to be something he is not. Some people want this, and that's what irritates me. Fortunately this is not what the film is portraying so people need to calm down.
2. The animation (hopefully not finished) doesn't have a cinematic quality. A lot of people are actually asking if this IS a film that is intended to come out on DVD and just getting a limited theatrical release, that's people expectations based on the trailer. Sony really needs to step up their game and hopefully deliver something significant, because with a solid MCU Spider-Man out there, there is not going to be much draw for fans of these characters, or of animation in general.
All that being said, I'm probably going to go see it. I just hope I don't have the same experience I had when I walked into Star Wars the Clone Wars back in 2008, to a half empty theater on opening day. At this point, this is what I'm anticipating. I hope I am wrong.
There are no more good TV Shows, only ones that haven't disappointed me yet.