Aww. I agree that the effort taken from comic to film as a whole comes up pretty short. It seemed to work well with taking and unknown like Christopher Reeve way back when to portray Superman for instance, but they are more focused on the person that's going to put asses in the seats now.

I'm looking forward to Christian Bale as Batman actually and I didn't think I would care about the character anymore after that long repeated travesty.

The Catwoman concept now however completely disgusts me. It's basically assasinating the whole icon. That I will not see.

Hellboy looks like a fine attempt too. Constantine, I'm just plain wary.

In a way though, I'm glad they are billed as blockbusters. I think people tend to through away the comic genre as whole as kid-like or not worthy, and in a way, this gives it more respect even if the product isn't necessarily what the diehards want to see. It is ultimately reaching a wider audience.

I got a very bad feeling about the Superman movie!

Beyonce as Lois Lane
Johnny Depp as Lex Luthor


God help us ....

who's next... Russell Crowe as Clark Kent?

Guess Im the only one who likes todays comic movies? I just like the experiance, while it may not be moving or epic, I find comic movies fun.

Sad as it is, I prefer a bunch of sub par comic movies, rather than none at all. I just dont know how a comic movie will please everyone, its just not possible.

I think a part of the problem is the source material they have been drawing from ( with the exception of League of Ext. Gent. ).

Daredevil is a fun comic to read, at times it was mature in its depictions of the ravages of being poor or a drug addict, but the storyline they chose was an action flick.

I liked the second X-Men film more then the first because it dealt with a lot of the prejudice and fear issues from the comic better I thought then the first movie did.

Spider-Man I think would make a better tv series then a movie, it would likely be targeted at teens and could be decent and topical if they based it more off of the Ultimate Spider-Man run recently.

League of Extraordinary Gentleman could have been brilliant. But to do so I think it would have had to have been four or five hours long to stay true to the comic and slow moving for parts of it. I thought it was somewhat doomed when I heard they had signed Connery for it, even if it had been good I would have been seeing Connery in every seen and not his character.

I want to see Maus made into a movie. Get WETA Digital to do the graphical magic of making the characters into mice or cats, make it three hours long. Include Spiegelman's dialogues with his father as sort of tension relieving break-points. It could be brilliant and would be a work of art.

But it won't happen, because Hollywood thinks comics are kids-fare and make good action movies, not insightful dramas.

Think of them as free advertising for the comic book industry, then.

They may not make an accurate depiction of the comics you love, but they bring attention back to the existance of comic books as a good thing.

Then it is your job to try to get good comic books to where the public can read them.

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You can never capture an image on film like you can draw it on the comic page - that's the first strike for Hollywood- Also compression of the story as film is an expensive medium and recovering costs needs make the film accesible to as vast an audience as possible but the result often is the loss of what could have been a minor/major cinema classic - take a look at the League - it could have been a classic if they stuck to the original story and structure- the same goes for From Hell - the same could be said for DD which was too corny at times- The only current three films which work are X-men 1 n 2, SPiderman 1 n 2 and my personal favourite which is a true comic book film HULK.... While i personally buy comics for the writing I would argue that what redeems the comic viz a viz the movie is the tone of the comic has to be bought out on the screen.... it's not just the atmosphere/environment but the quirkiness that makes a League the League or American Flagg, American Flagg.... Hollywood films sanitise those quirks loosing out on creating or mimicing something that has an identity by itself - THIER LOSS not Ours coz i got the books in my cupboard and can pull them out when i wish but what about those who can't afford them or have no access to them - will they think that th ecomics booksare as juvenile as the film (I have to keep defending the League) - Wait till I get to make a comic book film -I say