Hollywood directors should not turn books into movies, and if they do, they should stay true to the story one De Anza College student tells another.
"Some are really well done, but some directors steal the idea to fit hollywood's needs," Vivian Nguyen said. "Hollywood has obscene expectations."
Five comic book movies were released in 2010, and another nine are to be released this year, with nine more to follow in 2012.
Callum G’s article "Comic Book Movies: A Hollywood Phase?" on Comicbookmovies.com, debates whether recent comic book movies are indeed a phase like the western movies during the ‘50s and ‘60s and gangster movies in ‘70s and ‘80s.
Carlos Sivira, 19, business major at De Anza College, said that too many movies are beginning released at once, but comic movies are mostly likely not a phase.
"It might last longer [than the vampire phase] because there are more stories," said Sivira in an interview Wednesday in De Anza’s food court. “They could make an origins movie for all of them”
Brian Sanders, 19, undecided at De Anza, agreed with Sivira’s comment and added, “There is so much content.”
Sanders is right. Comics are open for interpretation, and moviemakers have the opportunity to adapt each character as they see fit.
Engineering major Eric Estrada, 26, said that he likes all these superhero movies, and there are not too many of them.
“I like to see what actors will be playing these characters from the comics,” Estrada said.
English major Adrian Sam doesn’t care about the volume of movies coming out, but is concerned with the quality.
“They got to take the time to read,” said Sam, “they got to take the time and do the research.”
G said in his article that the Spider-Man movies declined in quality as the series went on, but were still successful. The ‘fan boys’ found the movies disappointing, however the box office was not.
Biology major Shruthi Chandrasekhar, 19, says people will go see a movie after reading the comic.
According to G’s article, comic book fans will always be interested in seeing film adaptations of the comics.
Film production major Daniel Stenzel, 19, isn’t sure if comic book movies are a phase, but said that comic books are easy to turn into movies because they are visual.
Comic book movies are always going to be popular, because the viewer knows what they are going to get, according to the G’s article.
But 23-year-old computer science major Tommy Le questioned this concept.
“Why do people want to watch a movie when they know the story already?” asked Le.
Often times the movies aren’t just like the comics, moviemakers will change certain aspects.
“Altering parts of the story to fit into the movie format is unavoidable to make it work within the time frame,” Stenzel said.
