Doesn't surprise me. I mean, Sandman was never really *about* the plot. So compressing it down to movie-length and focusing on the plot kind of misses the point -- it's hard to imagine it feeling right.
This touches on one of my major points about good comic-book movies. The ones that work aren't the ones that are slavishly loyal to the plot and story of the original; they're the ones that *get* the original, that grok what it's about on a thematic level. That's what has made most of the recent Marvel movies relatively good, and Hellboy great -- they're kind of right on a story level, but more importantly they understand what makes the character tick.
But Sandman is *about* storytelling. The digressions aren't detours: they're the heart of the story. I mean, which issues do people talk about a decade later? Not, broadly speaking, the plot-focused ones -- rather, it's things like A Dream of 1000 Cats, or Midsummer's.
So I just have to suspect that a Sandman movie would wind up unsatisfying, even if it was totally loyal to the plot...
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Date: 2008-07-17 03:02 pm (UTC)Doesn't surprise me. I mean, Sandman was never really *about* the plot. So compressing it down to movie-length and focusing on the plot kind of misses the point -- it's hard to imagine it feeling right.
This touches on one of my major points about good comic-book movies. The ones that work aren't the ones that are slavishly loyal to the plot and story of the original; they're the ones that *get* the original, that grok what it's about on a thematic level. That's what has made most of the recent Marvel movies relatively good, and Hellboy great -- they're kind of right on a story level, but more importantly they understand what makes the character tick.
But Sandman is *about* storytelling. The digressions aren't detours: they're the heart of the story. I mean, which issues do people talk about a decade later? Not, broadly speaking, the plot-focused ones -- rather, it's things like A Dream of 1000 Cats, or Midsummer's.
So I just have to suspect that a Sandman movie would wind up unsatisfying, even if it was totally loyal to the plot...