Talk:Big Hero 6/@comment-929837-20140307092406/@comment-929837-20140316204613

There's a huge, ginormous difference between making a movie based on a fairy tale and making a movie based on a comic book.

You are too probably too young to recall this, but back in the 80s and 90s "comic book movie" back then was the equivalent of "videogame movie" today. There were so many BAD comic book movies during that time ("The Punisher", "Batman Forever", "Batman and Robin", "Superman 3", "Superman 4", "The Crow: City of Angels", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3", "Vampirella", "The Phantom", "Howard the Duck", "Tank Girl") that the word "comic book movie" was a byword for "awful movie".

Only in 2002, "Spider-Man" helped break the stigma that comic book movies used to have.

Comic book movies are a genre. Fairy tale movies are NOT a genre. Bad fairy tale movies are a dime a dozen, When a comic book movie does badly, it impacts on the genre as a whole.

And I KNOW there had been great comic book movies that only barely resemble the source material ("Men in Black", "Blade", "Mystery Men", "Kick Ass"and "The Mask"), but they are the exoection that prove the rule.