242sumner wrote:Whats your favourite movie based on a comic book and your favourite
superhero?

My favorite superhero is easily Spider-Man by a country mile, but my favorite comic book movie? Fuck, that's tough. I can say that Spider-Man 2, X2, and Batman Begins were all pretty much spot-on note perfect, but i dunno if i can zero in on a favorite. (Iron Man is actually way up there now, too.)

Of course, being a nerd, i have to point out that we're talking "superhero movie based on comic book," and not "movies based on a comic book," right?

as an aside, in output, marvel is kicking the dogshit out of DC.

that's discounting the watchmen film, which isn't really part of the DC universe, and which, by any indication will kick the butt.

i yearn for a green lantern film.
even a new superman would help.

the new batman films are great, and in many ways better than Iron Man or Hulk, certainly better than the Fantastic 4 films

but they should really get on the stick and deliver us a Justice League film.

how about an Avengers Vs Justice League.

we've got the technology and the means to see a Hulk Vs Superman bout.

r0ck1r0ck2 wrote:that's discounting the watchmen film, which isn't really part of the DC universe, and which, by any indication will kick the butt.

You better fucking believe it's going to kick butt.

r0ck1r0ck2 wrote:but they should really get on the stick and deliver us a Justice League film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0974015/

"Tabled for now," whatever that means.

DrAwkward wrote:Of course, being a nerd, i have to point out that we're talking "superhero movie based on comic book," and not "movies based on a comic book," right?

Perfectly put.

DrAwkward wrote: Batman Begins were all pretty much spot-on note perfect, but i dunno if i can zero in on a favorite.

I hated this movie. I think most (if not all) superhero movies suck. They are hollow, shallow, and depressing.

The problem is that the producers have no aspirations to reach a high artistic level.
Why not hire directors that are able to explore and develop the theme to its full potential?
The commercial aspect always prevails
I would like to see a superhero movie (Batman?) directed by Peter Greenway or Ironman directed by Aleksandr Sokurov.
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242sumner wrote:I hated this movie. I think most (if not all) superhero movies suck. They are hollow, shallow, and depressing.

The problem is that the producers have no aspirations to reach a high artistic level.
Why don’t give It to directors who are able to explore and develop the theme to its full potential?
The commercial aspect always prevails.
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Well, to offer a counterpoint, the one example i can think of where a director *did* try to to explore and develop really heady, artistic themes was Ang Lee's Hulk, and that fell on its face.

I obviously take issue with your premise that all superhero movies suck, though. I didn't find Batman Begins or Spider-Man 2 shallow in the least.

Honestly, if you want superhero stories that are able to explore the central themes of their characters to the degree that it sounds like you want, then you're going to have to look to HBO and other serialized television outlets. Personally i think that's where the desire to develop ongoing superheroes with decades of continuity should be focused, but in the meantime, we've got the movies, and some of 'em are pretty goddamned fun.

I have an acquaintance in town here who hates every single superhero movie because most don't adhere 100% to the source material right down to using the panels as a storyboard. Dude bitched that the first X-Men movie didn't just stick with the original team, and that Spidey's web-shooters were organic. I'm pretty sure he is just happier bitching than enjoying a well-done popcorn flick.

You want high art in your superhero movies? You best be pulling for Watchmen to pull that off (i know i am).

Saw it with the old lady yesterday. Liked it. I just wish the hulk didn't look like a fat, green, 3 year old throwing a tantrum in the toy section of K-Mart.
His bug round face screams "I need a nap!" more than "I'll fucking rip you in half." Plus the whole Hulk is completely out of control thing that was carried over from the first movie made it like watching King Kong but the last scene kinda put the brakes on that. I want a lucid and calculating raging giant. Not an over grown hairless Martian ape. And fuck the ever stretching pants... let the fucker kill in the skinny like a real super-hero would.

Still 7/10 N/C

Avengers will be good.

I am trying to figure out how they will do a Captain America movie that isn't so out of date that it totally fucking sucks. Is he going to go to Iran to save the U.S. from terrorists or North Korea to fist fight Kim Jung Il?

japmn wrote:I am trying to figure out how they will do a Captain America movie that isn't so out of date that it totally fucking sucks. Is he going to go to Iran to save the U.S. from terrorists or North Korea to fist fight Kim Jung Il?

Since recent years have developed a Cap that is all about fighting for the ideals of America rather than America itself, i'm really pretty excited for a Captain America movie. I think that if they go the proper direction with it, it could have some very sly government-questioning subtext ala Iron Man's war profiteering angle or Hulk's military pseudo-critique. I want to see the Captain America that said "fuck you" to the government during Civil War and went underground because he was more invested in protecting civil liberties than in preserving American security.

I saw this last night. I actually really liked the Ang Lee one, maybe because I always really liked Peter David's take on the Hulk, and it really fit well with that stuff.

I think it would've been cool if they did the "Intelligent Hulk" as well, and not just the raging one that everybody knows, because that version of the character most people seem to forget about. Still, this was pretty good as far as summer popcorn movies go.

DrAwkward wrote:But! Tony Stark! A kickass opening credit sequence that references the TV show! Lou fuckin' Ferrigno!

You forgot Bill Bixby on the TV in The Courtship of Eddie's Father when he's channel-surfing.