When it comes to comic books I've always been a Marvel guy, but when it came to the best story arcs DC took the top two. Batman: Knightfall and the Death of Superman/World Without Superman/Return Of Superman set.
Based on this as you can imagine I was excited about possible adaptations, yet at the same time very hesitant and concerned they wouldn't be able to do them justice.
Superman: Doomsday (2007) was a mess, totally missed the point of the original story so when The Death of Superman (2018) was announced I assumed it would be the same. It wasn't, but it was still a very compacted loose adaptation that simply wasn't up to standard. Reign of the Superman? It's going to be awful I assumed, and yeah it kind of is.
As a take your brain out forget the comic book it would still be pretty mediocre but taking into consideration it's source material it's an absolute slap in the face to the fans. This isn't the Return of Superman story line, they've added characters who simply weren't there, they've changed peoples motivations, basically 90%+ is all original stuff that has nothing to do with the comic.
Fine, you couldn't possibly do a story of that size in a 90 minute movie but they didn't have to change it so dramatically! Could they not simply have condensed it?
It's just a Saturday morning cartoon effort that loosely touches upon the original story but quite frankly makes a mockery of it.
Stupid, bad, dumb *Shakes fist*
The Good:
Nice to see a couple of the characters up on screen
Mostly good voice cast
The Bad:
Has almost nothing to do with the original material
Based on this as you can imagine I was excited about possible adaptations, yet at the same time very hesitant and concerned they wouldn't be able to do them justice.
Superman: Doomsday (2007) was a mess, totally missed the point of the original story so when The Death of Superman (2018) was announced I assumed it would be the same. It wasn't, but it was still a very compacted loose adaptation that simply wasn't up to standard. Reign of the Superman? It's going to be awful I assumed, and yeah it kind of is.
As a take your brain out forget the comic book it would still be pretty mediocre but taking into consideration it's source material it's an absolute slap in the face to the fans. This isn't the Return of Superman story line, they've added characters who simply weren't there, they've changed peoples motivations, basically 90%+ is all original stuff that has nothing to do with the comic.
Fine, you couldn't possibly do a story of that size in a 90 minute movie but they didn't have to change it so dramatically! Could they not simply have condensed it?
It's just a Saturday morning cartoon effort that loosely touches upon the original story but quite frankly makes a mockery of it.
Stupid, bad, dumb *Shakes fist*
The Good:
Nice to see a couple of the characters up on screen
Mostly good voice cast
The Bad:
Has almost nothing to do with the original material