I had read the comics before watching the movie, and I thought it was a completely neutered and bland version of the comic.
Looking up interviews, it seems like the creators agree:
> Rachel Talalay has since said that the film was taken out of her hands by studio execs and watered down
And Alan Martin (who wrote the comic) says:
> I still think that the script sucked from the very beginning, so there wasn’t much of a chance for it to work out well. It was all American locker-room humour, there was nothing surreal or alternative about the jokes, I find it very painful to watch because the dialogue is so bad.
Jamie Hewlett:
> "They forgot to film about ten major scenes so we had to animate them ... it was a horrible experience."
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I had read the comics before watching the movie, and I thought it was a completely neutered and bland version of the comic.
Looking up interviews, it seems like the creators agree:
> Rachel Talalay has since said that the film was taken out of her hands by studio execs and watered down
And Alan Martin (who wrote the comic) says:
> I still think that the script sucked from the very beginning, so there wasn’t much of a chance for it to work out well. It was all American locker-room humour, there was nothing surreal or alternative about the jokes, I find it very painful to watch because the dialogue is so bad.
Jamie Hewlett:
> "They forgot to film about ten major scenes so we had to animate them ... it was a horrible experience."