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Tuesday, May 03, 2005

bad business

I don't know why Marvel Comics keeps hiring Mark Stephen Johnson to write the stories/screenplays for some of their most interesting characters.

He's the guy who wrote and directed Dardevil. He wrote Elektra. He's currently working on Ghost Rider.

I gave BOTH versions of Daredevil a chance. The plots were really empty. The character development was unsatisfying. The stories were just boring. BORING BORING BORING.

Both characters deserved so much more... and before seeing the movie, I'm just assuming here, Ghost Rider will deserve so much more.

Typhoid Mary in Elektra was an interesting character, but like Darth Maul - showed up for a few minutes before getting wasted. Geez. The subplots in the movie are stupid. The drop of romance was totally unnecessary (I bet that was a studio ploy. I'll relieve Johnson from that fiasco.) The action was cool - but the end result was so unsatisfying. There was so much potential too.

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