So. There’s a new movie coming out in a few weeks.  I’ve been a little skeptical of it, wary.  There’s far too much that can go wrong in the translation of comic to screen.

And now I’ve seen the movie.  And it’s got it’s problems, but nothing unforgivable.  In fact, it’s been pretty good, up until about 75 minutes in.  And then… ? Then it all goes to shit.

See, as I was telling my wife earlier, I’m okay with tweaking continuity up until a point.  There’s stuff that has to get compressed and changed so that 30+ years of comic history can be distilled down for an audience that only has 90 minutes.  The problems I have are the utterly unnecessary continuity changes.  Like taking a character played by, say, Ryan Reynolds, and totally fucking him up (I’m fairly certain that the planned spinoff that’s been rumored is either impossible or will completely jump the rails).  Like creating family relationships for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON WHATSOEVER.

Sigh.

So, yeah, I’ll still go see the movie, probably, but I’ll always wonder why a studio can’t treat it’s own property with more respect.