Swamp Thing movies

[BartAllen]

are they any good? just asking.

[Anarky]

I suggest (http://imdb.com/title/tt0084745/) you ask IMDB.com (http://imdb.com/title/tt0098193/).

[BartAllen]

I suggest (http://imdb.com/title/tt0084745/) you ask IMDB.com (http://imdb.com/title/tt0098193/).thank you for your suggestion, i read those, but i would rather have a coversation. i suggest you try again. :)

[Anarky]

Well, to start a conversation I expect more than six words and a question mark. If you want to have a conversation you need to create some sort of basis of discussion. You can't just expect us to discuss something we don't know anything about.

[BartAllen]

Well, to start a conversation I expect more than six words and a question mark. If you want to have a conversation you need to create some sort of basis of discussion. You can't just expect us to discuss something we don't know anything about.
this is getting a little off topic.

anyways. alright i remember watching the movies as a little kid. and im intrested if anyone else has seen the movies. ive looked at IMDB, and im interested in other peoples opinions in the movie. would anyone suggest that i buy them?

[DrSpengler]

Being the gargantuan Swamp Thing fan that I am (avatar, people! avatar!), I can tell you the answer is "yes and no".

The first Swamp Thing flick has the production values of a tv movie or even worse and the entire story is watered down from the source material. They even turn Matt Cable into a female (Adrienne Barbou) so that Swamp Thing can have a possible love interest.

The entire movie just comes off as silly (and the costume is pretty awful) but to make matters worse they try to play it straight. BAD idea. BAD movie.

Return of Swamp Thing is different. It's a tongue-in-cheek horror comedy. It also adapts plenty of concepts from the comic. Abby, Swamp Thing's girl in the comics, shows up and is played by Heather Locklier. Swamp Thing's ability to teleport is there, sorta (in the comics he travels through The Green, in the movie he turns into a puddle of slime). And the hallucinogenic tubors that grow on his back and allow him and Abby to have "intercourse" are also there.

The whole thing is actually pretty funny. Who here has seen the first Guyver movie? Well, it's a lot like that. Not even remotely close in the spirit of the comics, but a fun "spoof" of the source material. And the Un-Men definately have the look and feel of the Zoanoids.

Return of the Swamp Thing also has one of my favorite opening sequences from any super hero movie, as well. A bunch of guys hunting in the Swamp get eliminated one-by-one by an Un-Man who broke out of Arcane's complex. Swamp Thing rescues the last of the hunters (who's lost his glasses). The hunter thanks him repeatedly and intorduces himself. Swamp Thing then picks up his glasses and gives his own introduction. "They call me...*puts glasses on the hunter* ..hSwamp Thing". THe guy then runs away screaming at the sight of him. It then fades into a montage of covers and panels from the actual Swamp Thing comic complete with my FAVORITE Creedance Clearwater song playing in the background; "Born on the Bayou".

Return is definately worth a look-see. AND it's mighty cheap. You can get it in a two-pack with Basket Case (an AWESOME low-budget horror movie) for $14 bucks.

OR, you can do yourself a favor and read the comics (specifically the Alan Moore run, all collected in TPB). One of the best decisions you'll ever make.

[BartAllen]

I just bought the trade by len wein. dark genesis, its interesting. i also have bad seed, which i didnt get at all, hopefully itll make more sense now though.

[DrSpengler]

Yeah, Dark Genensis is good as an origin story, for sure, but the stories are rather amateurish and sloppy. It's a good start and a god introduction, but Alan Moore's run is where Swamp Thing really hit his stride.

Bad Seed...well, that one was muddled in continuity pretty deep. Seeing as how you skipped from his origin story in the 70's to one of his most recent arcs from a year ago it's no wonder you were a little disoriented. Bad Seed wasn't too bad, IMO, it's just not very accessible to new-comers (thus making it a pretty bad way to start a new volume).

The current Swamp Thing series has been having it's ups and downs. The Arcane arc was pretty intense, but everything after that has been either boring or predictable. and Tefe' is still utterly unlikeable.