I like this movie and don't see why it get's bashed so much. I never read the comics or anything so I don't know if that's a major sticking point or anything, but even a lot of critics seem to hate it which I doubt that many read the comics either.
Ever feel the chill in an epic moment in an epic action film?
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1) The story is too rushed.
2) It's PG-13, Spawn can only work if it's R rated, as the animated series proves.
3) Miscasting. Martin Sheen is great but he was a wrong choice for Jason Wynn, it should've been a younger and more built actor.
4) John Leguizamo is WAYYYY too over the top as Clown, he can play very serious characters but I think the producers forgot that Clown is supposed to be intimidating and sinister and not a full blown looney tunes character. They also took away his ability to speak telepathically as the Violator.
5) The visual effects are very dated and were even dated for the time it was released. The shots in hell look like they were from an old Sega game.
6) Getting rid of Chapel and replacing him with a newer character, a mary sue with little to no purpose other than eye candy and shooting up the place--Jessica Priest. Chapel was a great character and was closer to Al, in addition to that he was also a member of Youngblood.
7) Stupid plot devices; Spawn crashes the party like an idiot in hopes to killing Jason when it only exposes him to security, not that it harms him very much he's the Devil's general after all. And later Jason gets a deadly virus placed in a piece of his hart and if anybody kills him it exposes everyone to it, um, what? That's just plain laughable even for a movie like this.
8) Sam and Twitch only get one lousy cameo and so does Angela.
That said, the hate for this movie is well deserved, but I will give it credit though for its cinematography, action scenes, and that Spawn at least looked kind of cool. And even though I earlier disowned the idea of replacing Chapel with Jessica Priest...I would so do Melinda Clarke in that armored catsuit in a heart beat.
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well it didn't have good action. Spawn didn't really have a clear villain (The Clown was the bad guy, but he wasn't really after Spawn, he was just playing around)
So Spawn didn't really have any good enemies to fight against. (Again the clown doesn't really count because he was just messing with Spawn) Which was kind of boring.
so you had a hero that had no clear villain, The you had some convoluted plot about Jason Winn working with the clown to kill spawn but then Clown betrays Jason, The the devil wants Spawn to be the leader of his army bla bla bla.
The story is pretty confusing and dumb at the same time. It kind of goes all over the place. I remember the biggest complain i heard from friends was, IF the devil gave him his powers why doesn't he just take them away? which made no sense.
add to that the really awful CGI and the bad acting. and yeah..... you can understand the hate
As others have said, bad VFX, bad acting and terrible directing. This was directed by a former ILM animator who clearly had no experience directing a movie. Aside from Spawn himself and the Violate, the cinematography and directing looked like belonged in an early 90's direct to video action movie.
shareI am Michael Jai White Fan and I thought he was pretty badass as Spawn,I thought Leguizamo did great as Violator and also there was the gorgeous Melinda Clarke
7/10
I must become someone else. I must become something else.
Batfleck and Gal Gadot will Prevail
I am Michael Jai White Fan and I thought he was pretty badass as Spawn,I thought Leguizamo did great as Violator and also there was the gorgeous Melinda Clarke
7/10
I've never read the comics but I can tell a bad movie when I see it
shareEven when I was 14 I thought it was garbage when it came out, and I knew nothing of the comic book (still don't). It's an offensive piece of trash IMO, nothing works in this movie, not even the special effects that should be the selling point of a superhero movie.
Garbage. 0/10.
Because it sucks.... it sucks more than a 1 dollar hooker by a cheap pub on a saturday night
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