What people like me are scared of is that movies become the one and only medium. For quite a lot of people if it's not on the big screen it doesn't exist. I mean look at this discussion. I have never seen a musical or a play, even if it were based on something I like. But I bet I will never be called elitist if I refused to go to "watchmen on ice".

Also I never met anyone who never saw a film in the same way I never saw a stage musical. Yet there are loads of people who never read a comic book. Film adaptation of a comic book is no different than a novelization of a film. It's just that all the hype that builds up about them that's annoying.