[SimeSublime]

It's so old I can't remember much about it. I do remember that I liked it, and was sad when a second one didn't come out. Like Hellboy, I think the background could have been better fleshed out.

[Brick McRunfast]

Unfortunately, the time restrictions of a feture film will never allow the fans to get what they want. As it was, Del Toro did an amazing job packing boatloads of expostion into very few scenes, so all fanboys can violently masturbate to the opening shots.

[Brick McRunfast]

In retrospect, that's a very disturbing image.

[Jane Sherwood]

Indeed.

I should also mention that I heart little Hellboy muchly. That was one of my many favorite parts of the movie.

It made me go "Eeeeeeeee! "

This post has been edited by Jane Sherwood: 06 December 2004 - 03:38 AM

[Lord Aquaman]

I believe Catwoman has had a comic book title at one point or another, but it was the REAL Catwoman, Selina Kyle, not the new Catwoman who appears in the movie in the form of Halle Berry.

I'm a bit of a comics fan and I understand what you mean.

The X-Men films take a lot of liberties, but they're not bad as films. The Spider-Man films are pretty entertaining. Both Punisher flicks (from 1989 and 2004) were alright. "Daredevil" flat out sucked (never mind Ben Affleck, he's getting knocked around by plenty, Jennifer Garner was badly miscast as Elektra). "The Hulk" was a bit of a disappointment but at least it was an interesting, off-beat disappointment.

I'm very worried about this new Superman film Bryan Singer's doing. The buzz I keep hearing on it doesn't sit well with me. Ditto that for the new Fantastic Four flick.

The way I see it, if you're doing a superhero film and you're taking liberties, make sure they're good liberties that will appeal to more than just the lowest of the adolescent fan boys/girls.

Long live "Hellboy".

[mesa fanboy killer]

Superman = ok
Superman Sequels = shit
Batman = just passable
Batman Sequels = Shit
The Shadow = Shit
The Punisher = Both very versions are very shit
The Hulk = sadly it was craptastic
Blade = shit ending
Blade2 = shitty cgi
Daredevil = dude who looks like a purple condom

X-men = Very good!
X-men = yer not bad
The Crow = good
Spiderman = good
Spidey 2 = good
Hellboy = not bad

hmm

This post has been edited by mesa fanboy killer: 08 December 2004 - 05:38 AM

[Lord Aquaman]

Beware the new Superman film and the new Fantastic Four. Beware these films, I say, beware!

[Jane Sherwood]

Meh.

I personally wasn't planning on seeing them anyway...

Fantastic four? All I remember about that is the tiny tiny bit of something in a cartoon I barely watched when I was little. Some guy being a big-ass rock man...

[SimeSublime]

I remember seeing a cartoon wherein they removed the Human Torch for no reason and replaced him with a stupid robot.

[Lord Aquaman]

I remember seeing a cartoon wherein they removed the Human Torch for no reason and replaced him with a stupid robot.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

According to a friend of mine, the Human Torch got replaced by the stupid robot on that one particular cartoon incarnation because the censors were afraid that kids would be encouraged to light themselves on fire in an attempt to playfully imitate the HT's "Flame on!" The stupid robot, known as Herbie, would later make appearances in the FF comic books.

Don't know if anyone heard or not, but Elektra is bombing very badly at the box office (raking in only $14.8 million in its first weekend; it actually got beaten out by Racing Stripes!). This spectacular failure prompted the magazine Entertainment Weekly to write an aritcle titled "Elektracuted: Does Jennifer Garner's dud opening doom superchick flicks?" The article's dissection of the problem went on and on about how the film failed because it's cheaper to just stay home and watch Jennifer Garner do the same thing on TV's Alias and how, while there's the 1978 Superman and 1989's Batman, there aren't any really good models to make movies about female comic book characters and how the young males of the audience stay away because they feel threatened by the sight of an ass-kicking dominatrix girl.

How about trying "Crap is crap, and people won't waste good money to see crap?"

[Private Zod]

I bought the screenplay to WATCHMEN when it slipped out of the studio and started making the rounds.  Damn.  It's terrible.

Best limited series comic ever written, and very nearly as close as comics get to real literature, to paraphrase that loveable hack Harlan Elison.  Completely unfilmable.

However: fun to play the fantasy casting game with.  Who's up for a round?

Examples: Liam Neeson is Dan Dreiberg, the second Night Owl.  Demi Moore is Laurie, the second Silk Spectre.  Tom Waits is Rorschach.

I won't finish my list so's not to spoil the fun.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Watchmen would work as a 12 part HBO miniseries...you could never translate it truly to a movie, even if they made it to a trilogy.

[ekm]

I wrote a pretty nasty piece about Catwoman, stating it's pretty offensive to women. If you can deal with venom, have a peek:

http://www.quarterto...s/catwoman.html

[Lord Aquaman]

I wrote a pretty nasty piece about Catwoman, stating it's pretty offensive to women. If you can deal with venom, have a peek:

http://www.quarterto...s/catwoman.html

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

EKM I read your article and man, I agree with every point you made - not only about the craptacular Catwoman but the equally bad Elektra (Jennifer Garner as Elektra, what in the name of Hell were they thinking?!).

[xmradiodave]

I wrote a pretty nasty piece about Catwoman, stating it's pretty offensive to women. If you can deal with venom, have a peek:

http://www.quarterto...s/catwoman.html

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

ekm...you little whore! I feel so betrayed, like you are leaving us. Why, why would you come to this site and start posting OOOOOH, they have cool smileys!!!

This post has been edited by xmradiodave: 26 January 2005 - 11:21 AM

[Despondent]

According to a friend of mine, the Human Torch got replaced by the stupid robot on that one particular cartoon incarnation because the censors were afraid that kids would be encouraged to light themselves on fire in an attempt to playfully imitate the HT's "Flame on!" The stupid robot, known as Herbie, would later make appearances in the FF comic books.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I remember that. It was the marvel/tv version of dc/tv's "bat-mite" character, in a way. "Robots are popular, let's make one of the four a robot." "Fantastic! Which one's hardest to draw? Let's replace him."

that's what I'd presumed had happened.