Comic book movies

comic book movies suck bottom line.

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- He opens his mouth and gasps into the bag, and the vomiting goes on endlessly. It will not stop, and he keeps bringing up liquid, long after his stomach should have been empty. The airsickness bag fills up to the brim with a substance known as vomito negro, or the black vomit. The black vomit is not really black; it is speckled liquid of two colors, black and red, a stew of tarry granules mixed with fresh red arterial blood. It is hemorrhage, and it smells like a slaughterhouse. The black vomit is loaded with virus. It is highly infective, lethally hot, a liquid that would scare the daylights out of any military biohazard specialist.

A few cool movies based on comicbooks that are not about superheroes:

10. Lady Snowblood
Before there was Beatrice Kiddo, the Bride, waking up after her supposed death & staining the snow with blood in Kill Bill vol. 1 ,
there was Yuki Kashima, aka Lady Snowblood, doing the same thing, but as the originator of these types of story themes.
Definitely an early entry when it comes to the field of female movie bad-asses.




9. Akira
This movie was my very first look into anime. Well, kick @ss anime that is.
And my initial viewing of this Otomo classic, I realized that, if I didn't have to work, I would spend all of my time lookin' up at what those crazy asians were concocting on the animation tip, yo.




8. Coraline
Okay, this entry is kind of a cheat.
I know that Coraline is a book that got translated into a graphic novel & then it was adapted into a movie.
But, as a comicbook nerd, & since it's author it more well known as a comicbook writer, I was first introduced to Coraline as a comicbook. So, y'know.... there you go.
Regardless, it's still a fine modern update of the Alice In Wonderland theme, with it's mixed ingredients of creative psychodelica, slightly edged childlike wonder, along with a nice dash of horror, but just enough to gurgitate a lump of fear in the throat of the kiddie audience within its targeted age. But not so much that it would scare any of it's young viewers to the point of absolving their parents of any responsibility for any trauma that might lead 'em up to the top of a building with a sniper gun, later on in life.
Hopefully.




7. Appleseed Ex Machina
So far, some of the most updated amazing computer animation in any animated feature.
Simply put, the computer-generated visuals in this film truly have to be seen in order to be believed.
However, even though the story is solid, as the sci-fi epic that Appleseed's visuals aspire to be, it does lack some originality in it's plotline. It is for this reason, combined with the indistinguisnness of the faces (as is usually common for most 3-D anime) that prevented this film from being ranked higher on this list, despite the fact that the graphics are, so far, some of the most favorite that my eyes have ever laid upon.
That said, there wasn't a frame in this movie where I just wasn't completely stunned with awe. The technical details & intricate designs in Ex Machina are some of the most striking ever to be generated on film.
Iron-Man's armor looks like it was created by Fisher-Price compared to the "hardwear" that these guys are sporting.
A true marvel to behold.




6. Oldboy
A hard-bitten, no-holds barred tale of revenge that bites hard & holds no bars. And while I know that sentence is doublely redundant, it seems to fit the situation as far the level of emotional ravishing that this story leads it's characters up to. Brutal it may be, it's a film that depicts it story in an operatic level & with a refreshing energy to give the film a distinct life that widely separates it from the standard vengeance theme of traditional Hollywood-fare. IMO, a great flick that is armed with a in-your-face type of plot twist & proves that the medium of the graphic novel & comicbook is a world full of potentially good cinema, if one is willing to shuffle passed the mainstream same old same old.




5. A History Of Violence
This movie depicts how the process of "keeping up with the Joneses" can be suddenly interrupted when it's time to "bring out the matresses".
It was actually based off of a book called (you guessed it) "A History Of Violence".
I highly recommend reading it.
Cuz there'll probably be a pop quiz later.




4. 300
I thought limited comicbook series was okay. Frank Miller took this movie & used it to add a whole different dimension to the telling of this early historic battle. While the story itself suffered a bit because it had to shorten into a "two-hour" movie ( or however long this thing ran), it seemed to be made up by the surrealist matrix-like effects that were used to enhance the story-telling in a manner such as when an artist uses a new medium for his/her artwork.
In this history epic, I have seen the future of film storytelling,
& it works.




3. Ghost World
While I had seen Scarlett Johansson before in other movies, this was the first one where I had fallen in love with her.
I alwaysed liked Dann Clowes work. He definitely subscribed to the idea of having a "style that was all his own". And for my money, this style fits in even more effectively in the medium of film than it does in the comicbook version of what is known as the "alternative" genre ( which already, it does so quite successfully). Dan Clowes' movies bring a well-welcomed shot of something new & different to watch as his comics bring to the experience of reading.




2. Road To Perdition
Let's forget the comicbook for a moment.
Road To Perdition is a quality film that addresses an area of the mobster life that rarely gets any notice from most movies from this genre: the relationship of a gangster with his kid(s) when the child is at the age in which the the parent's influence is most strongest & begins to crystalize in the kid's identity. Just this one aspect of the mafia lifestyle is enough to open a new set of ideas for future movies plotlines that focus on those in the world of organized crime.
Tom Hanks wanders out of his standard role to play an assasin who, along with his only survivng son, is on the run from the crime syndicate which he formerly called home. A life & death experience which reveals that there's a difference between the blood that is spilled for a mob-family & the blood that is shared between a real family.




1. Sin City
The weird thing about this movie is that the male lead characters are all practically the same guy. And the stories don't seem to stray too off to far from each other or from a theme that we've all seen on the big screen millions of times before. The thing is, the visuals on this thing are so g*dd@mn striking that, for me at least, it almost felt like I was watching a much more unique set of plotlines that was actually being told. Rather than trying to bring the Sin City graphic novel into movie "reel life", it seemed almost like this was more an exercise to bringing reel life into Sin City. That the actors weren't trying to portray comicbook characters as much as they were trying to intergrate their 3-D physicality into 2-D flat-figured Frank Miller drawings ( as was most evident with the make-up jobs on Marv & the Yellow Man). I know that there are some people who criticized the simplicity & graphic "pointlessness" of this movie,
but it's art direction was so full of energy & depth ( for my visual senses, at least) that I couldn't keep my eyes off the screen & found myself truly embedded in the illusion that I was watching something original.

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Comic Book Movies that I've enjoyed are Superman I and II, Batman and Batman Returns, and Spiderman I and II.

Ewwww---sounds like a movie that I want to avoid like the plague, whatever it is.

BEST = The Dark Knight!

followed by

2. Sin City
3. Iron Man
4. X2
5. V for Vendetta (I only put this one so low because its not faithful to the comic)

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what whit to whom did my life keep?

New Iron Man and Hulk films have been quality and in an hours time I will be sat down watching The Dark Knight

SWEEEEEEET

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Earnest Hemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I believe the second part.

i totally agree with you on the justice league film. that would be great. id even go to the 12 showing for it. plus they should have all the original actors from the privious like christian bale for batman etc. plus who would play the flash, aquaman, green lantern, wonder woman, etc. if they have a great cast i think it would be a great. movie.

My top rated below:-

Ghost World
American Splendor (sort of a comic book movie)
Blade 1&2
Batman Begins & The Dark Knight
Spiderman 1&2
X-Men 2

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I love the comic book/film genre its awsome.

Spiderman,
X-men,
Ironman they are all awsome!

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There's been rumours abound this year of a avengers movie to follow after next years new take on captain america and 2010s the invincible ironman.I read that edward norton and sam jackson were tied to return but downey jnr would be dependant on ironmans reception[obviously good].So although nothings ever set in stone at least in terms of continuity all would be well assuming the actor they choose for captain america returned also.The last time i heard anything the running was aaron eckhart and thomas jane seeing as how both have now been in comic adaptations it seems unlikely but not impossible.Lastly the influx of superhero films has got abit out of hand although the likes of nolan are now making it worthwhile.

After seeing X-3, Fantastic Four 1 &2, Spider-man 3, and now hearing of a Spider-man reboot, I really miss the days before my favorite comics were soiled by Hollywood.

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