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Posted: 2/9/2006 9:57:00 AM EDT
Some of my favorite movies are the superhero comic adaptations. Some are right on and some downright awful. A partial list:
Batman Begins 2005 Electra 2005 Fantastic 4 2005 Blade: Trinity 2004 Catwoman 2004 Hellboy 2004 Spider-Man II 2004 The Punisher 2004/1986 Daredevil 2003 The Hulk 2003 X2: X-Men United 2003 Blade II 2002 Spider-Man 2002 X-Men 2000 Blade 1998 Batman & Robin 1997 Batman Forever 1995 Batman Returns 1992 Batman 1989 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace 1987 Superman III 1983 Superman II 1980 Superman: The Movie 1978 I'll have to go with the X Men so far, but I am really waiting for Iron Man. Chime in with your favorite. |
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Well, for a nonsuperhero adaptation, "Sin City" was the most interesting. For superhero types, I'd go with "Spiderman II" and "Fantastic Four." You know what I've found is that some of these movies that are panned by audiences and critics, actually do well in DvD format. For example, "Catwoman" was a bomb, it also makes a lot of annoying mistakes, yet it is quite watchable on DvD (especially for $6.99!).
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+1 for Sin City |
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X-men II. Wolverine going ape shit in the mansion slicing everyone up should have been an oscar winning scene.
Second, Batman Begins Third, Sin City |
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Superman
Batman '89 I liked Constantine a lot too, I'm not sure how true to the comic it is though. |
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I thought the first Blade movie was pretty good.
And I want the samurai chick from Sin City |
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I never read the Blade comic books, but the movie does a great job of giving a comic book feel to a movie. I was a huge fan of the X-Men and the movie lived up to all possible expectations. They did great justice to the characters, and Magneto was one of my two favorite super villains (Dr. Doom's the other).
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XMen 1 & 2 or Fantastic 4.
The Hulk, The Punisher(Jane) and Daredevil tie for worst. |
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I really like the X men movies but i have not read a comic book i 25 years so I couldn't say who close they are
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And how can you not have The Crow on there? |
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X-Men 2 or Spiderman 2....... Tough choice
I also liked the last Alien (Ressurection) movie and AvP, I believe they were based on the comic merchanising from the first movies? |
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And there you have it. |
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The original Director left the project because he was told to "Lighten Up" the story, or something like that. He decided that he didn't want to be part of a "Happy" Ghost Rider movie. When I was growing up Ghost Rider and Spiderman were my favorites. Ghost Rider is a dark story and I hate that Hollywood is gonna fuck it up. |
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Elektra was another one of those movies which is lousy the first time around, but it grows on you the second time around. DVDs are really the way to go (especially since Elektra will undoubtably wind-up in th $6.99 bargain pile at Best Buy). |
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Ghost Rider site (Sony) |
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I saw that. Why Nic Cage? They should have gone with an unknown. with Cage I'll just see Cage, with an unknown I would see The Ghost Rider. |
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V for Vendetta was a sweet Graphic novel/comic book mini series....I HOPE they dont Fuk it up...it has potential like sin city....also
I PRAY ALAN MOORE will stop holding out against a "the Watchmen" movie...it would beat Sin City any day pound for pound for story line and pure character development, plus I love lunitics....in comics. |
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Yep. |
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I loved Hellboy. But I don't know how true it was to the comic. I didn't like FF because of the way they handled Doom. I liked the original origin a lot better. The only thing I liked about Elektra was the birdshot rolling off of the guy. Brilliant. Hulk sucked. It took like a dozen attempts before I could sit all the way through it. Long time Punisher fan, and I can't get into watching it. X-Men has been interesting. I'm anxious to see how they handle Angel, The Beast, and is that ETA,Psylocke |
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I liked the Xmen movies and Spiderman
FF was alright I thought daredevil sucked, I heard Ben Fagfleck say that they wanted to be as accurate as possible to the comic book, then they got a fit black guy to play kingpin, last I checked he was a fat whitey. |
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And he still was a more believable Kingpin than Aflac was as Daredevil... |
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Hands down... Catwoman.
That's a tough one. Probably the Spidermans in first, Batman Begins and X-mens in second and Punisher, Fantastic 4, the first two Blades, and Hellboy in third. |
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Damn hard post to argue with. |
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So Sad, So True |
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looks cool.....i wish they would get somebody besides cage |
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I saw Batman Begins last week. That's the best Batman movie, easily.
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Really? I used to read X-men alot, and dont remember Omega Red. |
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Punisher and call me crazy but I liked the Rocketeer (sp) from the early nineties.
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Of course you liked it: It had Jennifer Connelly in it We all liked it as well |
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He's from the early 90's. He came out just before the cartoon series, IIRC. And he did make it into the series. It'll be interesting to see how he fits into the movie. From the characters I've seen in the trailer, I'd have expected something else. Something more along the lines of say, the origin of Phoenix. Maybe they're saving that for X4. |
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should have been rated R and gory |
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Good luck finding a white actor with those dimensions. That John something guy from the Green Mile is an actor with credits, would have taken him over an unknown white dude whose only qualification was his size. |
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"Ironman" is coming to the big screen? Cool.
Ghost Rider looks way cool. |
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I've been following this for at least 5 or 6 yrs. and it's gone through some transitions. They was consideration for Johnny Depp and Viggo Mortensen to play in the movie, no telling who else. I like cage but... ghost rider? nah. I think he has the personality I think he's a little old though.
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