Posted by Will Turner, Karaoke King at nat0.ucc.ac.uk on March 21, 2004 at 14:23:46:
In Reply to: I agree somewhat posted by Lokileby on March 21, 2004 at 14:21:11:
And I'll come with him. And yes, the flashback structure is a better way of doing it, providing you don't clog up the story too much (You have to be a bloody good writer to do those properly, believe me I've tried!)
: I don't know very much about comics so a lot of these backstories were kind of nice for me.
: For Spiderman I knew a little, and Xmen I knew a fair bit from watching the cartoons in the early 90s, but I found (especially for Spiderman) that the backstory took up too much of the movie. It just took too long for the movie to really get started.
: Daredevil's backstory was just about perfect for me. Short and sweet, and kind of done in a flashback sense (if I remember correctly) which I like because its better IMO than having the movie take place over several years because it starts out with the young Parker. This is why I liked Xmen better, because much of the back story (especially Wolverine) was also done in flashback sense. This was also a good thing about the Batman movies, but he, like Hornet, will have less backstory as well.
: But with the sequels they were (or will be) able to just get into the story, without much in the way of backstory, and whatever backstory there will be I would imagine will be worked in through flashbacks.
: And about Hellboy, I am actually more interested in this movie from seeing the TV trailers than I am from seeing the trailer in front of ROTK I believe. I won't be shelling out cash (poor student and such) to see it in theatres, but I will definitely be renting.