My Take Radio

If you’ve been read­ing my reviews, you may have caught my review for Preda­tors. You can see that I loved Preda­tors. I also hap­pen to love comics, go fig­ure. Boy was I ever shocked to dis­cover the two have been mar­ried and now there’s a comic adap­ta­tion of the movie, as well as a pre­quel series and a sequel one-shot by Dark Horse. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!

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Scott Pil­grim is a hilar­i­ous and action-packed graphic novel series about a young guy who falls in love with a girl and must fight to win and keep her heart. This sounds like a pretty stan­dard fare story if you sim­pli­fied it in such a way, but it’s the char­ac­ter, the humor, the style, and real plot that makes this story a winner.

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So after much hype and fan­fare, the newest Scott Pil­grim vs. The World trailer was released to the masses on Face­book. I’ll be hon­est and say that I really don’t like Michael Cera . I am not a fan of his work sim­ply because to me, he is like Vince Vaughn — an actor who always plays the same guy in all of his films. In this par­tic­u­lar movie, Cera plays the nerdy kid who is try­ing to get a date with “hot chick” lead. (Stop me if you’ve heard this before.)  Time’s up — guess you have but are still inter­ested. The catch in this movie is that the “hot chick” has “Seven Evil Ex-Boyfriends” whom Scott must defeat. A unique con­cept (but not really since it’s based off of a comic book) but unique by Hol­ly­wood stan­dards. It seems that Kick-Ass has opened the door for these weird and crazy sto­ries to make it to the sil­ver screen, which can’t be all bad.…right?

I am like many that are mixed on the need to pur­chase an iPad but as a comic fan this looks awe­some. I am even will­ing to look past it’s short com­ings for cool stuff like comics and Net­flix stream­ing. The future is here folks and if DC & Image fol­low suit I will be read­ing comics a hell of a lot more. Would you buy it ? Share your com­ments below.

“Hey, that sym­bi­otic ooze just fell from the sky and attached itself to Spider-Man’s motor­cy­cle, this is bull­shit! This is not how it hap­pened in the comics!!”

“Crim­son dynamo and Whiplash aren’t the same person!!”

“Johnny Blaze doesn’t even use the Penance stare, that’s Dan Ketch’s power!!”

“Wolverine’s back-story is noth­ing like this!!”

To those that make those com­ments, with all due respect and with great kind­ness, I sim­ply say , please read further.

The major­ity of peo­ple who bitch about sit­u­a­tions in movies like this don’t even read comics, and the ones who do read them, half of them don’t even have the facts right, so it’s usu­ally peo­ple talk­ing out of their asses con­cern­ing such things.

I have been a fan of comic books since I was a lit­tle kid. I would gather around with my bud­dies, we’d quiz each other with trivia, we’d read one another’s books, trade cards, and we pretty much kept abreast of all on goings in our comic book worlds. This has been the norm since the late 80’s, through­out the 90’s and up until now for me. I own more comics than I have space for in my 2 bed­room apart­ment , and I like to think that I have a wealth of knowl­edge of comics, par­tic­u­larly Mar­vel comics, and espe­cially con­cern­ing Spi­der Man, with scat­tered knowl­edge around the realm of all things comics in general.

The rea­son for my post is to be the fan boy that actu­ally takes the side of movie direc­tors as opposed to the mil­lions of the “other” fan­boys who do noth­ing but com­plain about any lit­tle deci­sion made by direc­tors to bring their favorite heroes to the big screen.

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