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Originally Posted by MarkMono

I utterly loved this movie. I can totally understand why comic-book fans are dubious of Will Smith as a superhero, and Will Smith fans will despair of the almost complete lack of jokes in the second half of the movie, but I would call this the comic book movie of the year at the very least.

Movies based on comic books have definitely started to improve over the last decade, with studios looking to what in the comic book format makes the stories work so succesfully (The three act episodic format is a good example. Both Lost and Heroes consistently incorporate this.) rather than just buying a license, sewing a costume and dropping the characters into the middle of blockbusters. Batman Begins, Iron Man and X-Men are all good examples of this, taking the movie story formats and stripping the unnecessary fat and backstory from them, leaving evocative set-pieces and letting the characters tell their own stories, or sometimes, most tellingly, not.

Up 'till now I have scoffed when people talk of movies "establishing franchises", mainly because it only seems to get brought up as an excuse for other parts of the film which are lacking and/or substandard, but I can honestly say that I would happily see them make several sequels to this.





Nah, I loved the fact that it deliberately left vague with only specious ties to Roman, Greek and Judeo-Christian mythology.

If you really want concrete anwers, him being the hero (Out of all the 'gods' he is THE hero, according to Mary), the 'insurance policy of the gods' and the whole doomed lovers angle points to him being either Thor or Herakles.

Im not a fan of not knowing, hence why i was annoyed at it, but then again its more ground to expand if there is a sequel.

PS this kind of praise from markmono means this movie deserves an oscar of some sort.