Oh My Sith Lord!

I've got to remark on the torrent of feature films based on so many of my favorite childhood comics and novels in recent years. So many of the things that made me a nerdy-type kid that loved comic books have become standards of popular culture. When my first grade PS-29 school paper featured a rendering I did of Spider Man on the front page... I would never have imagined that spidey would ever be so flawlessly realized on the big screen in my lifetime. To see the battle with Doc Ock so perfectly portrayed in Spider Man 2 was incredibly rewarding for me. I really enjoyed The Hulk film by Ang Lee too. I guess it all kind of started with the success of the X-men and Blade films. I guess the technology finally caught up with the imagination of these writers and artists that I enjoyed so much in my youth. Yeah, the 70's Superman and Conan films were great but with the computer generated imagery that is possible today, the floodgates are just wide open.

I just saw the trailer for the final installment of Star Wars (the finale to the clone wars/darth vadar saga) and it gave me goosebumps. I've had a lot of debates with people my age about how the new trilogy hasn't lived up to expectations but my argument is that we've become jaded by high tech imagery and lost some of the ability to suspend disbelief that we possessed in our youths. Go ahead and watch the new trilogy with the sound off and you'll notice how beautifully painted each shot is. When the original trilogy came out, no one had ever seen anything like it but since then we've been deluged by countless films inspired or blatantly derived from that original sci fi epic. How could we look at a new star wars with the same virgin eyes?

A couple of the films i'm now looking forward to are the upcoming Fantastic Four (good god, sue looks hot) , finally a gritty, realistic batman film titled Batman Begins and of course Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Oh, fanboy joy! Like I said...2005 is going to kick ass!

Now I'd like to see some of my other early favorites like Moon Knight, Namor and Silver Surfer adapted.