This is useless advice as I doubt any of my three readers are planning to make a movie (well ok my husband would like to..)
But after watching "Ghost rider" last night I can say definitively that movies are NOT graphic novels, nor comic books, for a good reason.
I like a good comic story, I just can't handle having to read 10 mini picture books to get one story, so a good comic needs to be made into a graphic novel.
What they did with Ghoast rider is take all the great one liners with goofy pictures and line em up..which misses the flow of a movie, I don't have to turn the page in a movie and imagine the middle between pictures, you are supposed to fill it in with something good. If I have to waste 2 hours (when I could read the graphic novel in say 20 minutes) There aught to be some fleshing out of the story, some new interesting tidbits..something.
Coure I never read the original, maybe the movie did add stuff to a very sparse comic book.
On a side (and financial) note, the movie was borrowed from the free library of the brother in law, great to have a movie addict in the family , almost makes up for the cost of family....
If you are going to spend the money on a movie, make a movie, not a graphic nove
June 29th, 2007 at 01:43 pm
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