Kevin Munroe's "Dylan Dog" movie starring Brandon Routh

[Andrew NDB]

I thought for sure there'd be a thread about this movie on here, especially given the Kevin Munroe directing factor, but I'm not seeing one. Strange.

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Anyone going to see this? Opens on 4/29, same day as Fast Five.

[The Stryker]

Looks awful. Brandon Routh needs to stop doing bad movies.

ANYONE GONNA SEE FAST FIVE INSTEAD?

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[Cure]

I'm looking forward to seeing Vin Diesel vs. The Rock.

[Abnormal Freak]

I've never read Dylan Dog (gotta get on that), but this movie certainly is more "in-your-face" actiony than I expected the franchise to be. Though it's probably the movie Cemetery Man influencing that idea. Still, I've always thought the comic to be more pulpy.

Either way...naaaah, the movie doesn't really catch my fancy, but I may see it sometime.

[Andrew NDB]

ANYONE GONNA SEE FAST FIVE INSTEAD?

Hells to the yeah.

[AllTheDVDsWillBeMine!]

I rather like Brandon Routh. The guy's got charisma. But it looks like Munroe is trying to do Guillermo del Toro's style here (well, the style he used for the first Hellboy, anyway). And the only director who can pull off Guillermo del Toro's style is Guilermo del Toro.

But honestly, if it and Fast Five both have five dollar showings at my local theater one day, I'll probably opt for Dylan Dog, not just because of Routh, but because I'm a sucker for monster flicks and fully realize that Vin Deisel peaked with The Iron Giant.

[The Stryker]

fully realize that Vin Deisel peaked with The Iron Giant.

That last Fast & Furious was a lot of fun. Stupid as all hell but fun. I like Routh too but this looks like his fourth sh*tty movie in a row, he needs something good soon or he's gonna join the direct to dvd players in no time at all.

I forgot that Ludacris was in FastFive too. I love it!

[Andrew NDB]

That last Fast & Furious was a lot of fun. Stupid as all hell but fun. I like Routh too but this looks like his fourth sh*tty movie in a row, he needs something good soon or he's gonna join the direct to dvd players in no time at all.

I forgot that Ludacris was in FastFive too. I love it!

And Tyrese. 2 Fast 2 Furious remains one of the laugh out loud funniest buddy action movies I've ever seen.

It doesn't get much better than this:
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[Abnormal Freak]

Hot tits, I just read the first Dylan Dog story, Dawn of the Living Dead, and it's increeeediiibllllllle. One of the coolest comics I've yet read.

And it confirmed my suspicions that the movie is nothing like the comics. Well, I haven't seen it yet, but judging by the trailer, it just looks like typical action-comedy poo-poo.

Wikipedia has this to say:

The film also appears to be much lighter in tone and more action-oriented, lacking the surreal feeling, the black humor and the melancholy of the comic book, and the Dylan character is portrayed like more of a scientist-adenturer in the vein of Indiana Jones, rather than the romantic loner he is in the comics.

OK, so that looks to have been written by someone who hasn't seen the movie either, ha ha. But the trailer is pretty telling.

Still, I miiiight go see the movie if just because I think TMNT is a pretty good movie. And out of curiosity to see just how bad they messed the character up.

Also, judging by the first comic story, the movie Cemetery Man (a.k.a. Dellamorte Dellamore) is definitely the REAL Dylan Dog movie. It's a weird sort-of adaptation: Dylan Dog and Cemetery Man's protagonist, Francesco Dellamorte, were created by the same author. Dylan Dog is from London, and from what I'm reading, Francesco is kind of an Italian version or counterpart of Dylan. Dylan in the comics was modeled after actor Rupert Everett, who played Francesco in Cemetery Man. Thus, Francesco in the film looks exactly like Dylan Dog, but he isn't him. But Francesco's personality and the tone of the film are the same as the Dylan Dog comics.

Sadly, it appears that none of Francesco's comic book appearances, nor the novel he originated in and which served as the basis for Cemetery Man, have been translated into English. Hopefully the hefty Dylan Dog Case Files trade paperback from a couple years ago is selling well and Dark Horse will obtain the rights and have the desire to publish all these goodies.

[Cure]

So what did everyone think of Fast Five?!

[deadpoolRKO]

I loved that the rock and Vin Diesel had like a 2 minutre fist fight , slamming each other through walls and sh*t. Then neither of them have a mark on them when it was over. now THAT'S tough.

[TheCanadiandrome]

apparently Kurt Angle is in this movie, does anyone who's seen it know what kind of character he plays? also i've read that this movie has bombed

[Revan]

Looks awful. Brandon Routh needs to stop doing bad movies

Who cares. Do you like Routh? He's really not that good

[Andrew NDB]

Day-um...

http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Dylan-Dog-Dead-of-Night

Pretty horrific numbers.

Even at an 8 million dollar budget, it barely cracked 4 million... worldwide. And that's just the production budget, not inclusive of the marketing budget.

I wouldn't expect to see Routh headlining any movies anytime soon (possibly ever again). That might be it for Munroe as well, sadly.