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In reading some of the regular news stories coming out of Comic-Con (and by regular news I mean general public, not comic or pop culture related sites), I've noticed that two things got any major press: Green Lantern & The Avengers. Not Thor, Not Cap.
I'd say GL has a good chance to be DC's Iron Man film franchise for the same reason IM did well: it's a semi-recogonizable name to the general public, but not iconic enough to generate expectations of any sort. I think that's where they fail with Superman. Batman was close enough to the original film to allow the updating to work. It was more subtle. If the special effects in GL are cool enough, it will go over huge.
Thor may look good, but I think at heart it's going to come off as too "old" for want of a better term. Sort of like Beowulf was. Adding little bits like Don Blake buying Mjolnir off Ebay sound, well, just silly. If Thor is a grand epic, that's pretty much mocking yourself for spite.
And Captain America looks to be drifting too far off of what people expect with the costume changes, etc. Chris Evans to me comes off as too cocky to be the leader that Cap is supposed to be. He may look good in the suit, but he's just Bucky.
I think Marvel's main goal is just to get those characters out there and then make the big killing on The Avengers, I envision DVD collector sets and marathon film runs. But a poor Thor & Cap showing may make The Avengers a rough go.
I'd say GL has a good chance to be DC's Iron Man film franchise for the same reason IM did well: it's a semi-recogonizable name to the general public, but not iconic enough to generate expectations of any sort. I think that's where they fail with Superman. Batman was close enough to the original film to allow the updating to work. It was more subtle. If the special effects in GL are cool enough, it will go over huge.
Thor may look good, but I think at heart it's going to come off as too "old" for want of a better term. Sort of like Beowulf was. Adding little bits like Don Blake buying Mjolnir off Ebay sound, well, just silly. If Thor is a grand epic, that's pretty much mocking yourself for spite.
And Captain America looks to be drifting too far off of what people expect with the costume changes, etc. Chris Evans to me comes off as too cocky to be the leader that Cap is supposed to be. He may look good in the suit, but he's just Bucky.
I think Marvel's main goal is just to get those characters out there and then make the big killing on The Avengers, I envision DVD collector sets and marathon film runs. But a poor Thor & Cap showing may make The Avengers a rough go.
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