So I finally got to see the movie Push a few weeks ago. I guess it originally opened WAY back in February, but I didn’t even know about it. And this is supposed to be my thing; comic books, movies or a combination of the two. But NOPE I didn’t know nothing! But let’s see, the reason I found out about the movie at all is because I recently came across the 4 issue limited series of comic books. Which were, in fact, kinda great. And somewhere on the books it referenced a movie and I was like WHAT. Oh  my God, lets run over to IMDB and see what’s up.

But do you know what I found over at the movie database?  Bunch of people complaining about the movie not only not being good but review after review talking about how it was like Heroes-the TV show. And I kinda see why they might say that-because they’re a similar powers aspect. But that’s kinda it! I mean some people have similar powers but it’s really nothing like the TV show. The movie Push is about random people with special powers using their powers pretty much for personal gain. A few of them seem to work for a government group. But, and let me be clear about this, you wouldn’t REALLY know what the movie’s about without the comics. And THAT is the true shortcoming of the movie. It’s an “art movie.”

I recently had a talk with a friend about how I’m planning to make my own super hero movie and the problem with most of them so far is that the movie producers REFUSE to make the movie like the comic book. Either they think they know best how to “make a movie” or they want to do something artsy like that poor stupid ass Lee who made the Hulk movie.  It takes somebody like Rami who was a lifelong Spider-Man fan to make the Spider-Man movie right. So Push is artsy. I liked the movie-from a film making point of view; interesting, not overly defendant on effects. But then the director impressed me with his British gangster movie a few years ago. But as a super hero movie it was off. If he wanted to make an art movie he should have chosen Kandinsky as a subject matter.

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But back to the COPYCAT issue. The current series of X-Factor features a couple of offbeat characters; Jamie Madrox and Layla Miller. And yeah, those two are basically the 2 stars of Push. This X-Factor started around 2005 so it’s POSSIBLE the movie just absorbed them. But hard to say; it takes a movie so long to get made it could have been on the shelf for 10 years. But I think not. I think somebody saw the weird dynamic of Madrox and Layla and said I’m gonna use that.