1. Last night I watched the episode of Minority Report where a group called Momento Mori develop a DNA virus they infect a senator with because she wanted to make it legal to tamper with a person’s DNA in utero to cure genetic defects. The police catch the bad guy who says he is not a monster. He wants to stop the progression of the technology because in the future a motivated high schooler could deliberately or accidentally release a DNA changer that could end up killing all of humanity. Whoa! Where would you be on the issue? And what would you do to prevent or encourage one side or the other? Great episode! I’m looking forward to watching how the issue plays out.

  2. Royce Hunt says:

    I agree that the villains must be more compelling. One of my favorite villains showed up in Daredevil Vol 1 Issue 208, The Deadliest Night of My Life .

    The villain was a wealthy person who made her mansion into a death trap after Daredevil had killed her son. She died, but not before setting the bait for the trap (no spoilers here). Daredevil’s deadliest villain ever was not even alive.

    However, such a villain would not make a good movie. It might make a good television episode (I hear that there is a cable TV Daredevil series now). Movies tend to demand world-threatening villains.

    • Zac Totah says:

      I’m not familiar with the Daredevil comics, but wow…a villain like that brings a powerful dynamic to the story. Even more interesting that Daredevil and the villain didn’t interact. Thanks for sharing, Royce.

  3. Audie says:

    It might be good if Marvel movies would finally get Doctor Doom right. The Fantastic Four movies keeping trying to make him some kind of…I don’t know, it’s just odd what they’ve done with him. He’s one of Marvel’s biggest villains, and could probably work as a good villain if they would simply make him what he is in the comics–a genius at magic and technology who is also a despot.

    I think the recent Star Wars movies may prove some of your points about effects and story. When the first teasers came out, they didn’t seem to have been all that well received. Roly-poly droids and strange people in the desert weren’t cutting it, the last trilogy had made viewers not get too excited by neat effects. It seemed like it was the trailer that gave us a brief look at the characters of Rey and Fin, who they were and what they were thinking, that got people really interested.

What do you think?