Best Comic Book Adaptation for Cinema?

Got X-men trilogy on DVD at the weekend and have been watching them over the last few nights, they are actually better than I'd given them credit for after seeing them in the Cinema. and I kind of got to thinking are they the best Comic book Adaptation in my collection (I've got the box sets of pretty much all the big budget adaptations -Superman, Spiderman,Batman,DareDevil,Fantastic4,Hellboy,Sin City the Punisher, the Phantom, I've even got old taped from TV copies of Judge Dredd and Justice League of America) for me it's between X-men, the new Batman Series(based solely on how great Batman Begins was and how cool Dark knight looks in trailers) and the Fantastic4 for best. as for worst thats easy... Judge Dredd (35 years as a comic book character he never removed his helmet...6mins 37 secs in Hollywood movie land and off comes the helmet because Sly wanted his face in the movie

Best individual adaptations for me were Spiderman 1, X Men 2, Hellboy, Batman, Batman Begins, Superman, Superman 2, Superman Returns, History of Violence, Road to Perdition and American Splendor

Worst had to be Judge Dredd

Originally Posted by jebus

Best individual adaptations for me were Spiderman 1,

Agreed the Franchise showed such promise at the outset only to degenerate into the tangle plotted lovey dove mush fest that was spiderman 3. 2 was somewhere between the others in terms of quality

Originally Posted by Block G Raptor

Agreed the Franchise showed such promise at the outset only to degenerate into the tangle plotted lovey dove mush fest that was spiderman 3. 2 was somewhere between the others in terms of quality

Yeah Spidey 2 wasn't too bad at all, but Spiderman 3 was muck, ditto X Men 3 as well. Not holding too much hope for Ironman either to be honest, although Fantastic Four 2 was surprisingly alright

Originally Posted by jebus

Fantastic Four 2 was surprisingly alright

Have been very pleasantly surprised by the F4 movies. the comic was never really on my radar growing up (I wasn't a huge comic book fan just used to buy some to copy the artwork, then as now I was mad for painting) and I didn't know a whole lot about it but have to say I've been converted

Originally Posted by Block G Raptor

Have been very pleasantly surprised by the F4 movies. the comic was never really on my radar growing up (I wasn't a huge comic book fan just used to buy some to copy the artwork, then as now I was mad for painting) and I didn't know a whole lot about it but have to say I've been converted

Yeah wouldn't have been a mad fan of Fantastic Four in the comics, but I did like the last movie. Throw V For Vendetta on my list of absolute stinkers as well, oh and the Hulk! How could I have forgotten about the Hulk you ask, through years of therapy I answer

Batman Begins was awesome. I'm really looking forward to The Dark Knight.

The Fantastic Four films weren't anything special, but they're decent entertainment.

The Hulk was dreadful. I liked V for Vendetta, but I've never seen the comics to compare.

Originally Posted by jebus

Throw V For Vendetta on my list of absolute stinkers as well

Don't know I picked it for €4 euro and have stuck it on a couple of time around 2-3am and watched most of it (I think- How long is it?) and have to say I was enjoying it up to the point were I've fallen asleep usually around the part where SPOILER: he has her locked up and shaved her head

Good:
V For Vendetta
Spider-Man 1 and 2
X-Men 1 and 2
Batman, and Batman Returns
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Batman of the Future: Return of the Joker
Batman Begins
Superman 1 and 2
The Crow
Akira (it was started while the comic was ongoing and came out before the comic had finished)
Hellboy
Sin City (nailed it)
300
Constantine (almost nothing left of the original character, but an enjoyable flick nonetheless)
Hulk
Men In Black

soft spot for the Punisher, even if I know it's rubbish.

Bad.
Pretty much everything else, until the first X-Men film came out most films since Superman and Batman were made purely on the basis that low budget + established comic-book fan base = massive gross revenue. It didn't really work out that way.
Notable mentions for Spider-Man 3 for being 2 decent storylines shoehorned into one ungodly mess and X-Men 3 for being by far the worst of the trilogy, although I accept that in both cases, it was out of the control of the directors

List of most comic-book films here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...anguage_comics

I have high hopes for Iron Man, Wanted, Hellboy 2, Incredible Hulk, The Dark Knight, and Watchmen

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808417/#comment

The film is animated from the comic book, so matches many of the frames of the book. French. Missed out on an Oscar to ratatouille

Trailer for US market
http://www.imdb.com/video/editorial/me60125348

Random House with frames from book.
http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/...ersepolis.html

Satrapi appeared on the Colbert Report (AM. TV) in January 2008 but I can't find a recording.

Originally Posted by jebus

Best individual adaptations for me were Spiderman 1, X Men 2, Hellboy, Batman, Batman Begins, Superman, Superman 2, Superman Returns, History of Violence, Road to Perdition and American Splendor

Worst had to be Judge Dredd

i concur...but could i add sin city

Trailer for the new Hulk movie: http://entretenimiento.prodigy.msn.c...mentid=6483468

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

Trailer for the new Hulk movie: http://entretenimiento.prodigy.msn.c...mentid=6483468

oh my god. that looks like one half-step above sci-fi channel level of crap! i say this as a huge hulk fan, he was always my favourite. i knew this was gonna happen, this is gonna make ang lee's hulk look like kurosawa.

Originally Posted by ken foree

oh my god. that looks like one half-step above sci-fi channel level of crap! i say this as a huge hulk fan, he was always my favourite. i knew this was gonna happen, this is gonna make ang lee's hulk look like kurosawa.

Now now, I doubt even a plague of locusts nibbling at your privates could make you remember the first Hulk with any more affection

Originally Posted by jebus

Now now, I doubt even a plague of locusts nibbling at your privates could make you remember the first Hulk with any more affection

that is an indelible image jebus but i liked that film, flaws (plenty) and all. i mean yea some of it was ar$e-clenchingly bad. the end was mostly awful. but the desert battle was the best action scene in a comic movie i've seen yet. and the hulk watching the lichen in the desert scene absolutely nailed the character: big angry hunted animal that wanted to be left alone. this new one just looks like transformers, loud and dumb.

Must watch the trailer so, it can't be as bad as the Ironman teaser doing the rounds, that just looks shocking to be honest.

Back on good/bad adaptations, anyone else think Ghost World is completely overhyped?

Ghost World bored me to frickin death

One I'd really like to see is Thor, apparently Kevin McKidd (Trainspotting & Rome) is going to play the the mighty Thor!!!!

Just to add onto that, was watching "I am Legend" online and in the opening half of the film there's some scenes of Billboards and on one of them there's an advert for a combined Batman Superman movie.....hopefully will be expanded to a full Justice League affair....that would be awesome

Batman Begins by a country mile.
Worst Judge Dredd by a country mile. (Hopefully someone does a decent one some day).
Hoping The Green Lantern gets made eventually.

I'm hoping they start looking at 2000AD for more comic adaptations. Chopper, Zenith and Slaine would all come across well on the big screen, although Zenith might be more suited to a small screen adaptation. If CGI every becomes as realistic as the movie industry would like us to believe than I'd love to see an ABC Warriors movie