Cartoons have limited appeal they are going for mass appeal and live action is the way to go there.
It's based on a video game. It already has limited appeal.
I disagree, 10 years ago people would have said super hero movies had limited appeal; now nobody would say that because the batman trilogy, iron man and avengers were so good that almost everyone now enjoys the super hero movies
What are you talking about? We had Superman, Batman, The Mask, Men in Black, Blade, the list goes on, Comic book movies and super hero movies never had limited appeal what world do you live in?
Between Batman Returns and the modern Marvel age started by the first Iron Man movie, comic book movies had a certain niche/campy stigma associated with them. The comic book films that were successful were such because they downplayed their comic book origins, whereas the modern films embrace them. With the exception of Spider-Man, they weren't generally done very well and weren't the pop culture phenomenon we have now. Iron Man and the resulting Avengers tie-in movies changed that, but it took a long time for geek culture to become the norm.
No that is all fabricated in your mind, there were three X-Men blockbusters, three Matrix blockbusters, three Star Wars block busters, (well one Matrix movie bombed but whatever,) three Spider-man blockbusters, Ghost Rider, Aeon Flux, Punisher, Fantastic Four, Hulk, and quite a few others, plus the Nolan Batman films were all pretty serious stuff.
No you are flat wrong, comic book NERDS have issues with those movies for not being too close to the source material but general audiences ate them up so there was no stigma to speak of. **** man I have heard countless commentary where filmmakers had to pitch their story *as* taken from a comic book to get the studios to back it this movement began LONG before Iron Man came about, that is just the point it became fully mainstream but the last 15 years have been dominated by sci-fi super hero blockbusters either based on comic books or similar material.
The claim was 10 years ago nobody would have seen comic book movies taking off which is BULLSHIT we have had dozens of them in the last 15 years so it was closer to 20 years ago this movement began and it really kicked off with X-Men in 2000 that is well documented among Hollywood historians and movie buffs the modern comic book age didn't begin with Iron Man that is just the point where Disney took over and began pouring insane amounts of money into it, hell even the Bayformers began before that period and those are based on a comic book story too.
NONE of that has any relevance to this discussion because who CARES what people said would be niche or not, the world has changed audience CRAVE this stuff now audiences don't give a **** what is based on a comic book or a novel, or a video game, or a cartoon, or a fucking board game, they eat it up that has been the trend for a long time now and video game adaptations aren't exactly new either hello nobody watched those Resident Evil films Bull **** those were blockfuckingbusters too. Some of you are mistaking great film with money making franchises, nobody is arguing those things were great cineme but they sure as hell made **** tons of money.
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