Best Movie
Bill says that Sin City is the best comic book adaptaion ever. He may be right. I'll have to think about it. American Splendor and Ghost World are both pretty good. By all accounts Sin City is certainly the most accurate, which is a nice change. That makes it the best adaptation, but does that make it the best movie? I mean could a movie that is not true to it's source material still be a good movie (yes), and if so are any of them better than Sin City?
If Sin City is the best comic book movie, which is the best SUPERHERO movie, and which is your favorite? ('cause best and favorite aren't always the same thing.) The movie doesnt' have to be based on a comic as long as it's about a superhero or heroes, eg. Unbreakable or The Fantastics. You can also count movie length cartoons even if they were never in the theater such as Last Son of Krypton, The Batman/Superman Movie, or Return of the Joker.
Come to think of it, I haven't read American Splendor or Ghost World, so I don't know if Sin City is the most accurate adaptation.
Here's where I say something nice about Marvel. The Spider-man movies are better than the live action Batman movies. Except of course for Batman Begins. And if it weren't for those damn organic webshooters, they might have beat Batman Begins too.
If Sin City is the best comic book movie, which is the best SUPERHERO movie, and which is your favorite? ('cause best and favorite aren't always the same thing.) The movie doesnt' have to be based on a comic as long as it's about a superhero or heroes, eg. Unbreakable or The Fantastics. You can also count movie length cartoons even if they were never in the theater such as Last Son of Krypton, The Batman/Superman Movie, or Return of the Joker.
Come to think of it, I haven't read American Splendor or Ghost World, so I don't know if Sin City is the most accurate adaptation.
Here's where I say something nice about Marvel. The Spider-man movies are better than the live action Batman movies. Except of course for Batman Begins. And if it weren't for those damn organic webshooters, they might have beat Batman Begins too.
posted by Dominic at 4:59 PM
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hrmmm -
well, as with many things, a Favorite is hard to pin down, but aproximately from the top down would be the two Spiderman flicks & Hulk high on the list, Also Batman Begins, Superman the Movie, and the first Batman.
Hellboy and the FF movies are a heck of a lot of fun too.
and from the "Closet of Sh ame" comes Daredevil. - It has it's moments.
and yes, I'm buying "Sin City" tommorrow.
picked up the DVD today -
anyone know when the heck the supposed good one - with real special features and the extended cuts of the segments - is supposed to come out? The one I'd heard, until recently, was supposed to be the one released?
8 minute featurette my ass.
I Just looked at the Amazon.com description. It sure does look pretty short on features, especially concidering the cover price, but of course Amazon is selling it for much cheaper.
Can't find anythind about a special edition dvd, but surely there will be one.
The best Superhero movie ever made has got to be Unbreakable, hands down.
Next in line would be the animated Batman movies.
Honorable Mention: Mystery Men- not as a good adaptation of the original, but good as a work in its own right.
Also for honorable mention, The Specials- another super hero spoof-
Finally, in the guilty pleasure-had a good concept, should have been better than it was- category, the Return of Captain Invincible. It's about a superhero who gets blacklisted for communist sympathies in the 50's and becomes an alcoholic. This is the good concept part. But did I mention it's a musical?
Once again Dominic's DC underoos are showing.
'Batman Begins' is okay...better than the first Spider-movie...no question.
That movie has lots of problems...but the fact that it made it to the screen at all is all it needed to do.
Spider-man 2 is the best Super-hero movie so far.
It really nails the Peter Parker character.
I really like Unbreakable...but I wouldn't call it a super-hero movie. It's a really good Super-villain movie though.
And it does have a guy with super-powers...but that doesn't automatically translate to Super-hero.
Unbreakable is a superhero movie. Yes, at the begining David Dunn is just a guy with powers, though he doesn't fully realize he has them. By the end he becomes a hero. It's an origin story. As with most of the best stories, the villian is as important as the hero, but David Dunn is clearly the protagonist. It is a superHERO movie.
The Killing Joke is a super villian story because the Joker is the protagonist.
I really like Spider-Man 2, but I think Unbreakable is a better movie. As I said, Spider-Man might win over Batman Begins if not for the organic web shooters. Those are just stupid. Not just stupid because they aren't like the comics. They are stupid in any medium.
I dunno - organic webshooters make about as much sense as a 15 year old kid having inveinted the non-organic ones.
A nice bit from the "Ultimate" line is that peter's Dad invented developed the webshooters/fluid and peter worked from his design.
As to "Unbreakable" - Great flick, but - his weakness is water? That's as lame as something like..the color yellow!
They may make as much sense...comic-book wise. But that is not how Spider-man was created. In the ocmic he has always had mechanical web-shooter.
I read somewhere that Sam Raimi changed it because he couldn't imagine being that smart when was 15 himself, so it was difficult for him to believe Peter Parker could do it.
Maybe that would be an okay explanation if was making a movie about Sam Raimi.
Now, I like Sam Raimi. But that's a stupid reason to change an iconic character.
David Dunn's weakness isn't water in the sense that Superman's weakness is Kryptonite. He is vulnerable to water in the same way that Superman is vulnerable to magic. That is, his powers don't give him any special protection against it. Dunn is "unbreakable," but he is still human and needs to breathe. I imagine he is vulnerable to all forms of suffocation/asphixiation not just drowning. I'm sure his lungs are as strong as the rest of him. They can't be punctured, but fill them up with water and they are useless.
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