Avengers Movie Will Suck

I'm one of those guys who read comics when I was a kid, and I remember the Avengers very well. I still have a stack of them in my closet. I have the entire X-Men collection even. Numbers one through three hundred something. No, I haven't bought a comic in the last fifteen years, but I still have a pretty good comics collection and I plan on giving them to my sons as a kind of heirloom.

So I have a very good idea of what these comic super-heroes were about. And mostly the movies do not do them justice. Not even close.

It's funny, really, because for so many years I was waiting for them to be made into movies. My friends and I understood that the special effects technology was insufficient to do super-hero movies well, so we were patient. And now that the technology has caught up, the movies are coming out.

And they are mostly done either plain wrong or with too many flaws.

Take Daredevil. It was one of the few that was done mostly right, but what was with that stupid mask? In the comics, it's attached to his costume, but in the movie it's more like a hat that covers his eyes. It was stupid for at least three reasons. First, as a hat, it can come off easily. Two, it doesn't conceal his face very well. And three, it just looked dumb.

Oh, but I've talked about this before. The movie people have an instinctive belief that they are superior to the comics people. And that includes the writers, producers and the costume designers, too. They just can't leave it the way it was in the comics. They believe anything they do will be better. But they are wrong.

Even the Batman movie makers changed Batman's costume. It's wasn't an all black costume. It wasn't bullet proof either. It seems only Superman's costume was left alone.

Take the X-Men. They were given all black leather costumes. Wrong. If I were to itemize everything they did wrong with the X-Men movies, this post will be too long. Suffice it to say that even though the first two X-Men movies were close, the third one completely sucked. And that last one? The X-Men origins movie? That was a disaster!

Which brings me to the soon to be released Avengers movie. Never mind that the roles are miscast. (With the exception of Robert Downey as Tony Stark.) But the trailers have made it clear that the main villain, Loki, the Norse god who's a bad guy, enlists the aid of aliens to attack earth. It's like, huh? Loki has a bevy of Norse mythological bad guys with whom he had sided over the years. Since when does he have to go SciFi for his villainous deeds? Since never.

Well, this post can go on and on. I will take my sons to see the movie. But I already know it will suck. Just like the movies HULK, CAPTAIN AMERICA, THOR, FF, X-Men, and yes, even SPIDER-MAN sucked.

Only IRON MAN and Nolan's BATMAN movies are on the mark. (The all black costume can be overlooked in Nolan's Batman.) And it's really too bad. If only...