The latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Inhumans”, has been ripped apart by critics and fans after multiple bad trailers and IMAX screenings, resulting in what could be the first huge disaster in the multi-billion dollar franchise. Marvel’s “Inhumans” was first announced in 2014, and was originally going to be one of the films in Phase 3 of the MCU films. However, the plans went south when Marvel Studios and Sony worked together to bring Spider-Man to the franchise, resulting in the “Inhumans” movie being taken off the list of future movies. The project was thought to be dead until early 2017, when it was announced that “Inhumans” would instead be turned into an immensely high budgeted ABC television series with an IMAX premiere. However, as the project went underway, things started to take a turn for the worse.
When the first image of the characters was revealed, many fans of the comics pointed out how inaccurate and cheap the costumes looked. This fact was all the more confusing as the series was reported to have a higher budget than most sci-fi television shows. Blackbolt’s costume in particular was lambasted as his look in the comics is considered to be iconic, and thus it was even more confusing as to why Blackbolt’s look was altered. Granted, Hillgrove student Trenton Spears said when concerning the problems presented in the trailer that he had “None, really”, but there are still more haters of the show than defenders nonetheless. The only character who fans acknowledge looked 100% accurate was Lockjaw, the Inhuman’s giant dog, but that is unfortunately not saying much.
Things got much worse when the trailers started coming out. Even though “Inhumans” had plenty of money to pull off some great special effects and mind blowing sets, they both appeared to fall way short of expectations. The sets looked like something out of an Ed Wood film, and the effects did not fare much better. The cgi for the super-powered hair of Medusa for instance was laughably bad for many people. As a result, Twitter exploded with hate comments about the production design of the series.
When the series finally came out, the concerns that both fans and critics had turned out to be 100% right. IGN called the premiere movie “bad from top to bottom”, and Digital Spy called it “the weakest entry in the MCU to date”. On top of the previously mentioned problems the show had, one of the others that critics ranted about was the story. Apparently, the story itself was a complete knockoff of the first Thor movie, which was the 4th entry in the MCU film series. The problems with the show are believed to be a result of Scott Buck, the showrunner of “Iron Fist”(another poorly received MCU show), being chosen as the boss of this series. Overall, what started as a potentially amazing experiment in TV and movies turned out to be the black sheep in a long line of great comic adaptations.
Marvel’s “Inhumans” is based on the Marvel Comics characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The group first appeared in Fantastic Four #45 in December of 1965. Jack Kirby’s story of the cosmic superheroes follows the royal family of the Inhumans, led by Blackbolt, as they inhabit the city of Attilan located on the dark side of the moon. As of recently, Marvel has been pushing for the Inhumans to be more popular by increasing the amount of comics they are featured in and somewhat replacing the X-Men with them. Hopefully their TV adaptation will be made up for in the future, but for now, it remains a stain on the legacy of one of Jack Kirby’s most unique creations.
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When the first image of the characters was revealed, many fans of the comics pointed out how inaccurate and cheap the costumes looked. This fact was all the more confusing as the series was reported to have a higher budget than most sci-fi television shows. Blackbolt’s costume in particular was lambasted as his look in the comics is considered to be iconic, and thus it was even more confusing as to why Blackbolt’s look was altered. Granted, Hillgrove student Trenton Spears said when concerning the problems presented in the trailer that he had “None, really”, but there are still more haters of the show than defenders nonetheless. The only character who fans acknowledge looked 100% accurate was Lockjaw, the Inhuman’s giant dog, but that is unfortunately not saying much.
Things got much worse when the trailers started coming out. Even though “Inhumans” had plenty of money to pull off some great special effects and mind blowing sets, they both appeared to fall way short of expectations. The sets looked like something out of an Ed Wood film, and the effects did not fare much better. The cgi for the super-powered hair of Medusa for instance was laughably bad for many people. As a result, Twitter exploded with hate comments about the production design of the series.
When the series finally came out, the concerns that both fans and critics had turned out to be 100% right. IGN called the premiere movie “bad from top to bottom”, and Digital Spy called it “the weakest entry in the MCU to date”. On top of the previously mentioned problems the show had, one of the others that critics ranted about was the story. Apparently, the story itself was a complete knockoff of the first Thor movie, which was the 4th entry in the MCU film series. The problems with the show are believed to be a result of Scott Buck, the showrunner of “Iron Fist”(another poorly received MCU show), being chosen as the boss of this series. Overall, what started as a potentially amazing experiment in TV and movies turned out to be the black sheep in a long line of great comic adaptations.
Marvel’s “Inhumans” is based on the Marvel Comics characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The group first appeared in Fantastic Four #45 in December of 1965. Jack Kirby’s story of the cosmic superheroes follows the royal family of the Inhumans, led by Blackbolt, as they inhabit the city of Attilan located on the dark side of the moon. As of recently, Marvel has been pushing for the Inhumans to be more popular by increasing the amount of comics they are featured in and somewhat replacing the X-Men with them. Hopefully their TV adaptation will be made up for in the future, but for now, it remains a stain on the legacy of one of Jack Kirby’s most unique creations.
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