Comments on: Comic Book Movies That Failed

By: G³

G³ — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:10:21 +0000

@Sean R.: That burns me just knowing that about LXG! And I always pass by the comic because I don’t like the cover art…

By: Sean R.

Sean R. — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:15:28 +0000

Not only does she exist, she’s the main character, and completely awesome. True, she doesn’t have any of the vampire powers the movie gives her, but then again, she doesn’t need them. She’s just a forceful, capable leader, who stares down both Mr. Hyde and Captain Nemo, and not once does she ever take a gun or a sword and have a kicker of ass moment, which if you think about it, goes against the stereotype of Badass Women everywhere. That’s what I just cant forgive about the movie; they didn’t leave her as the main character (I don’t even think she’s on the box art) and they think fans won’t notice if she gets powers. Feh.

And if you liked the Constantine move, really, you owe it to yourself to check out the comics, specifically the run of good ol’ Garth Ennis (I know, the guy’s everywhere) for the better, more completely awesome in every way moment that happens in the movie that they botched in adapting (no, I’m not telling you which)

By: G³

G³ — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:48:11 +0000

@Janskoller: He just shouldn’t be allowed to do whatever he wants. No one should, but especially not Frank Miller.

By: G³

G³ — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:47:20 +0000

@Sean R.: I deliberately left Constantine out because I love that movie, even if Keanu Reeves is about as far from a BLONDE BRITISH man as one could get.

I forget, does Mina even exist in the comics for LXG?

By: Janskoller

Janskoller — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:18:58 +0000

Yeah The Spirit is probably one of the 5 worst movies I’ve ever seen. Just proof that Frank Miller can’t direct.

By: Sean R.

Sean R. — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:46:25 +0000

Ugh, ugh, ugh. The LXG movie makes me so mad because the comics are so good, and the movie couldn’t have missed the point the point more if it fired a cannon into the sun and the point were on the opposite side of the milky way. And the Daredevil movie made me want to tear my eyes out. And Wanted, while it attempted to bring across the same ideas as the book, failed to do so like the book did. And then there was the Constantine debacle…

Yes, this is a pretty good list of why comic book movies are (or at least were) seen to be silly action fluff with no deeper themes at all, suitable only for children and manchildren. But then Spiderman came out and suddenly comic book movies were cool (I would say again, but…), and everyone wanted in on it, but alas, forgot that you need to make a good movie as well as a good spectacle. A car crash is a spectacle. Here’s hoping that the sucess of the good movies will encourage more would be filmmakers to examine what makes good movies good (Hint: it has to do with a plot you can remember, characters you can relate to, etc.)