Board Thread:Movies/@comment-5041674-20140508040330/@comment-24713690-20140805224438

Realistic in what sense? There no such thing as what Harry turned into in ASM, so there's no way it could look realistic. A guy wearing a mask - a crappy looking mask, but a mask nonetheless - is something than can be real, and that's what Norman looked like in the Raimi film. I don't see how zombifying someone can possibly be more plausible than a guy putting on a mask.

I think one of the problems with the Raimi goblin was the realism of it - the artifice was to obvious - it made it look less developed than you'd expect from a mega-budget film.

As for taking them seriously - Raimi's one would win it for me, but not because of looks - they'd both fail on that front. Raimi's film was had a tighter script - and, like I said before, I'm more forgiving of the Raimi film because we'd finally gotten a SM film (with so much talent around now, who know how to make superhero films work, there's much less reason to get things wrong).