Best Comic Book Movie?

I watch them on a station we have in Canada called Teletoon, they showed all of them.

I also watch them on a dejaview channel and thats where I can also see Iron Man

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I put the "The" in there deliberately. Somehow I can just never take myself seriously saying (or writing) just "Hulk". It just doesn't sound specific enough, like there's only one Spiderman, but with just Hulk, you could mean this hulk, that hulk, the hulking behomoth sitting in front of you in the theater, or The Incredible Hulk.

sin city and road to perdiition

Yeah right.

Just face it, lines...you messed up.

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It's not Hulk or The Hulk

It's either The Incredible Hulk or Incredible Hulk

Huh? We're talking about the movie, Sabs.

Hulk.

Does it really matter if new members only post a short reply?

Sorry but i didn't see the rule about a mimimum number of words per post on the signup page.

People will choose themselves if an elaborate answer is required.

And as for you feeling like ignoring me, that is the face of no concern.

Only if they want more than to see themselves post.

Are you offended because I want new members to interact instead of make lists that offer no interaction?

Look, this is your 6th post. The other five posts you made have been ignored. You know why? Because they were little lists. You didn't say, "Hey, so-n-so, I agree/disagree with you..." You didn't say, "Does anybody else like/dislike..." You just made 5 boring little lists.

But this post, you tried putting me in my place, causing me to want to interact with you. Isn't this better? Now you have an opportunity to speak back yet again. You started the ball a rollin'. Good job!

You may have a cookie.

geez, i guess that goes for me too

i loved the look of sin city..it was done well in every dept and i loved marv despite all the violence which i just can't seem to get out of my head...that's the only thing that ruined the film for me...

road to perdition is a great little film as well...tom hanks did a great job with his role as did jude law and paul newman (who should have gotten something for his role) ...beautifully filmed and good plot line...

now when the heck will they make a maus film????

other hero comic book types...i loved the first two superman films and the first two batman films with michael keaton

i also loved the best of them which is batman begins...i can't wait to see no 2 ....

Recent attempts at bringing traditionally 2D-rendered characters onto the big screen had been applaudable indeed. From Batman Begins to Sin City, comic book movies are starting to bring to life the characters, the whole mythology in a way that does justice to their predecessors (i.e. the film noir feel to Frank Miller's Sin City; the in-depth exploration into the protagonist's character in Batman Begins). But what if the comic the movie is based on utterly, for the lack of a better term, SUCKS? How then should we judge it?

I have never liked the Hulk comics. Never. In the comic book world of fancy powers, debonair wit and unfalliable utility belts; mysterious origins, haunting pasts and the proverbial closets chock full 'o skeletons - Dr. Bruce Banner falls short in my opinion:

"Ohs Noes! I've been zapped by a Gamma Ray!"
*Cues transformation into muscular green dude*
"RAWRRR! HULK SMASH!"
*Cues transformation back into wussy white dude*
"Why does everyone hate the Hulk for DESTROYING ACRES OF PUBLIC PROPERTY? Oh wait - You're pissing me off!"
*Cues transformation into muscular green dude*
*RAWRRR! HULK SMASH!"

Go figure.

However, a green-giant-loving-friend of mine swears that Hulk is a "good" comic book movie. Who am I to judge his tastes? I still think that the spectacle of a half-dressed, green steroid nightmare jumping around smashing things is ludicrous though.

What about the really good comic book characters whose transition to movies fall short? Specifically, I am talking about Mister "I-Am-Not-The-Bad-Guy" Daredevil who spends much of the movie brutalizing people (with a memorable scene where a thug is allowed to be chopped in half by a train). No proper character development, or scene transitions at all. How the heck did a poor, blind orphan come into the possession of a secret lair of fancy gadgets? Don't get me started on the love-interest bit. Above all, I am still wondering why "YOU KILLED MY FATHER" Electra miraculously became "OHS NOES! I AM SORRY!" Electra the moment she unmasked Daredevil - as if the sudden revelation in identity would instantaneously translate into Daredevil =/= Father Slayer.

Lots of people still like the Daredevil movie though.

How then do we judge what makes the "Best Comic Book Movie"? By its action sequences? (Methinks millions are still wanking over the CGIs in Spidey 2 even as I type) By its faithful renditions of the comic characters/theme/settings in movies? People who do not like steampunk will not enjoy The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. People who do not like film noir and gangster literature will not enjoy Sin City. Heck - some people are still bitching over minor things, like Keanu Reeves's Constantine not being a trenchcoated pom (i.e. Brit) in a gloomy gothic London (while it seems to me that a Yank in a gloomy gothic LA should suffice).

The bottomline?

Bad comics do not equate bad movies.
Good comics do not equate good movies.

And vice versa of course.

The movie was known as Hulk, I agree.

*sigh*

No, that doesn't go for you too, Suzi-Q.

I wasn't mad at the new people, I was just trying to light a fire and get them to actually 'join in'. That's all.

I'll be quiet and keep ignoring if that's better.

Good. You can have a cookie too.

My personal favourite would have to be Tim Burton's Batman film. Though Ghost World, American Splendor, Sin City, and Batman Begins are also very good.

Batman Begins takes the cake for me. Christian Bale played a stellar Batman and the supporting cast was great, especially Liam Neeson and Michael Caine. Gotham City never looked better, I was so happy that they threw all those damn neon lights from the other movies into the crapper. And I love the new Batmobile, at first I thought it looked like a World War I tank, but I am now a believer! I can't wait for the next one!

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(In no specific order, my favorites)
Sin City
Starship Troopers
Spawn
AVP (Concept, not really the movie)
Batman Begins
Starship Troopers

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Batman Begins

x-men was a good one.

love v for vendetta...great adaptation of the comic. batman was also great though. anyone get the v dvd set? i've watched it twice since i bought it last week. its really good.

I'd have to say A History of Violence. This film was very much real. One of Cronenberg's best efforts. This film, I felt, was very powerful. The ending was very subtle, which I loved. But, to expound a bit more, I felt that Batman Begins was a very good film. Christopher Nolan portrayed Batman as much darker, not to mention more honest, than any of the previous ways Batman has been portrayed. He developed the first half-way intelligent Batman film.