Comic Book Movies

Um, what? Not only is it clearly and obviously a comic book movie (because the source is a comic and stuff), it's a DC comic movie made from a DC comic, so it qualifies under your own (odd) criteria.

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I'd second that if you bump The Dark Knight down to three and slide Iron Man on in there.

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Yes.it.is.

Sorry but, it isn't up to you to decide what qualifies as a comic book film. What's this "general sense" hullabaloo? I don't do well with vague, nebulous definitions that don't actually exist. Please define exactly each and every criteria you think is required for a film to qualify as a comic film. Gotta have superheroes in it? Watchmen qualifies. Spandex? Check. Gadgets? Check. Origin stories? Check. A flawed anti-hero? Check. Powers? Check. An evil plan from a psychotic villain? Check. Made by DC or Marvel? Check.

Yes, I can see how Watchmen and Eat.Pray.Love are almost identical in their trappings as films that have nothing to do with comics, and most certainly aren't comic book films. Except that Watchmen is clearly and unequivocally a comic book film.

100 random people on the street? What if those people are idiots? What if they only watch The Proposal, and that's the only movie they like? What if a "Comic film" to them is a Buster Keaton film? Laurel and Hardy? What if they are all 11 years old, and weren't allowed to see Watchmen? As you can see, that won't prove a damn thing.

I'm a comic fan, my girl is a comic fan, most of my friends are comic fans - we all think Watchmen is a comic film - all of us. 100%.

its my husbands fav new book...his last was beyond birthday...
its the author who did 100 bulets, brian azzarello, and its just called "joker".

nice hard cover, really nice art...

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Im tired of being caught in the tangle of these peoples lives.....

its up to me for my own opinions on the matter.

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no i havent heard of this fem, but i dont consider "stripperalla" and "baberalla" to be comic books or comic book movies....

im just an old fashioned girl, and i dont consider porn to be "comic book" meterial. and you want me to think something ive never heard of to be a comicbook movie, but just because you never heard of it...its not "real".

besides roschach, and the comedian and unrelated to this, harvey dent are my heros...

although just my opion, darkhorse and vertigo are always discounted...darkhorse gave is a darker more edger batman, but i will admit that vertigo's books dont always translate into the best movies...


but i love reading V....and i im keeping a close eye on suckerpunch.

another thought.....i think "graphic novel" is confusing some....to me a graphic novel i a manga.
and there is a difference between a "manga" and a "comicbook"....

then dc, and marvel, and darkhorse, and vertigo put out the big books an they end up under the catorgory of graphic novel in the bookstores...

I'm not sure what this means. I think the point here is that it isn't a matter of opinion; it is factually a comic book. That's what the phrase means. If you use some personal, arbitrary definition of what constitutes a comic book, that's another matter. Though even then I'm not sure what that personal definition would have to be in order for Watchmen to be excluded. Is it just based on how popular it is?

Graphic novel, manga, collections of newspaper strips, whatever. It's all comic books.

FemForce isn't porn any more than X-Men. Most comic book heroines are scantily clad these days. I have been aware of the property for several years. I'm just not a fan of it. I do like the Men of Mystery books that company produces, though. I'd like to see those Golden Age heroes get movies - The Black Terror, the original Daredevil, The Green Lama, The Fighting Yank. I'd like that.

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I only have one criteria for a comic book movie: is it based on a comic? It's possible to have superhero movies that aren't comic book movies and non-superhero movies that are comic book movies. Akira, Popeye, A History of Violence, Ghost World, Hulk, Watchmen and Uzumaki are all comic book movies. I guess we could also have a related genre of movies that aren't based on but are about comics: made up or real comic artists (How to Murder Your Wife) or made up comic books.

I guess I just have a hard time seeing why "comic book" is a genre (like "gangster movie"). Why should comics be treated differently than movies that are based on books?

Thats fair enough.

I guess what i'm trying to articulate, and failing miserably is, if i was aware it was a comic pre-adaptation i consider it a comic book flick.

The jim Carrey movie teh Mask, was based on a comic, this i found out a decade later, but still, even though i know that now, and i thought it was excellent, if asked to list top 20 comic book movies, i dont think it would spring to mind.

is this making sense to anyone?

Yeah, I think I get it. It's specific to each person, though, right? It's based on which comic books they're aware of, remember, maybe even read, etc.?

Yes.

In my knucklehead for instance, i think of Unbreakable and Darkman as both comic book flicks while i never considered Men in Black as such. To me it was based on a premise 1st introduced in an X-files episode (s).

Once again, it is in fact based upon a comic series, but in my head, it doesn't feel like a comic flick.

[quote=MadMikeyD;720131]Graphic novel, manga, collections of newspaper strips, whatever. It's all comic books.

mangas are not comic books in any way shape or form. anime fans and comic fans rarely meet in the middle and dont like being associated with one another...also, mangas come out in volumes, most mangas end, usully are not in color, the colored ones are called "anti-manga, some mangas feature one story from start to end, there are 4-7 chapters in each book, and come out once a month...there are weeky refered to as "jumps"....

graphic novels are big books with the whole or majority of the comic book series....

newspaper comics ar comics...

comic books are 20-30 page with/without color, that come out weelkly or monthly, and are numbered with so many to a volume, and alot are on going..

I've been reading comic books for over 30 years - it's all comic books. My opinion is, the people who want to make those distinctions are the people who are embarrassed to admit they read comic books.

Manga has sequential art with word balloons. That's a comic book. The "volumes" are generally collections of the serialized strips from the weekly magazines, just as the monthly american comics are collected into "volumes" of trade paperbacks. Yes, most manga end after dozens of volumes while most american comic characters continue their adventures for 50+ years. That doesn't change the fact that it's all comic books.

True graphic novels are original stories of 100 pages or more originally presented in a single book. The term has been adapted to cover all bookshelf style comic books so that adults don't have to admit they are reading comic books.

Newspaper comics get collected and reprinted into book form, making them comic books.

My point is, if a story is told in multiple pages of sequential art, it is a comic book. You can choose to call it what you want, but I have always - and will always - refer to them all as comic books.

Well, what about "Road to Perdition?" It was based on a comic book by Max Allan Collins, or "Ghost World," also based on a comic book by Daniel Clowes. This thread seems to be more Superhero films than comic book films.

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well..i read comic books and love comic book movies....but i read mangas as well...

mangas are not comic books, they are stories that have sometimes been pubished in a weekly "jump" [shonen jump, yen press] by chapters, not by strip.

i dont know when the "beef" started between comic book fans and manga fans...but its as interesting as the trekies and star wars beefs..

the comic strips are published in american newspapers, and do come out in a coffee table book like boondocks, and peanuts.

the only difference a graphic novel is 300 is one, and some wolverine books, and starwars...i think it has to be a new story....when comic books are released in big books...we just call them "collectibles" and never open them????

I had no idea what you guys were talking about with the Manga. In searching for a proper defenition, i came across this that may interest some :



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Some people just get way too hung up on labels. That summary kind of makes my arguement for me. Manga = Japanese comics.