::laughs:: Funny you should ask that - I myself can often be heard questioning that very phenomenon.
It seems to me that film over this past decade has come in very distinct groups. Remember a few years ago when it seems like all the films that came out were those disaster movies ("Dante's Peak" et al)? And then there were all those apocalyptic films ("Armageddon", "Deep Impact")? And then the dark, religious ones (a la "Stigmata", "End of Days", "Bless the Child", "The Omega Code", "Lost Souls")? Well, these days, the rage seems to be comic book adaptations, and everybody's cashing in on it. They're even making movie versions of comic books that are so little-known, it's a marvel they actually think they'll make any money. To my mind, only a very few people knew of the comic LXG...and I highly doubt if most of the audience going to see the movie knows of the comic's existance.
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It seems to me that film over this past decade has come in very distinct groups. Remember a few years ago when it seems like all the films that came out were those disaster movies ("Dante's Peak" et al)? And then there were all those apocalyptic films ("Armageddon", "Deep Impact")? And then the dark, religious ones (a la "Stigmata", "End of Days", "Bless the Child", "The Omega Code", "Lost Souls")? Well, these days, the rage seems to be comic book adaptations, and everybody's cashing in on it. They're even making movie versions of comic books that are so little-known, it's a marvel they actually think they'll make any money. To my mind, only a very few people knew of the comic LXG...and I highly doubt if most of the audience going to see the movie knows of the comic's existance.