What is everyone's top comic based films?

[愛]

Punisher 2004 is probably my favorite of all time. V For Vendetta is a close second. Watchmen is probably my third despite them taking the vagina alien out of the plot.

[AT-Man]

Originally Posted by JakeSully

My faves:
Watchmen.
Batman Begins
Oldboy.
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
Ichi The Killer.
Hellboy 1 & 2.

Plus if some other Ghibli movies are based on comics, them.
Oh yeah and Dredd!
Oh yeah and The Avengers!

[Donnie]

Most definitely:

1990 TMNT

Thor

The Avengers

Hellboy I & II

X-Men: First Class

[Bauer536]

I've got so many. Let me think.

Top 25 Favorites

1. The Avengers
2. The Dark Knight
3. Watchmen
4. 300
5. X-Men
6. Thor
7. X-Men: First Class
8. Batman Begins
9. Spider-Man
10.Batman (1989)
11.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
12.X2: United
13.The Amazing Spider-Man
14.Superman II
15.Road to Perdition
16.Sin City
17.Dick Tracy
18.Iron Man
19.Men In Black
20.Batman:Sub Zero
21.Batman/Superman Movie (World's Finest Parts 1, 2, & 3)
22.Captain America: The First Avenger
23.Superman Returns
24.TMNT (2007)
25.Blade

Man. A lot of Batman.

[Testudo]

Watchmen
Man of Steel
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises
TMNT
Red
Constantine
300
Hellboy
X-Men: First Class
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Green Lantern (never understood the hate, although I admit it could be better)

P.S: Can't stand The Avengers (or the praise it gets). Very overrated movie.

[Slade]

The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises
Original Ninja Turtles movie
Batman 1989
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Dark Knight returns pt1&2
All star Superman
Superman the movie
Superman 2

Wow, I'm actually a huge Superman fan but this shows they make Batman movies way better.

[JakeSully]

After seeing Dredd 3 times in theaters, Avengers 5 times in theaters, TDK Rises 6 times and Man of Steel 4 times they are new faves

[Jester]

Originally Posted by JakeSully

After seeing Dredd 3 times in theaters, Avengers 5 times in theaters, TDK Rises 6 times and Man of Steel 4 times they are new faves

Not sure if waited for the dollar theaters or just made of $$$.

[That Matt Guy]

Superman 3 is my favorite.

[Leo656]

"For a piece of sh*t, it smells great..."
-Richard Pryor, discussing Superman III

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

It should be noted that Alan Moore, who authored both Watchmen and V For Vendetta, liked neither movie adaptation and has his name taken off of them.

[chrisdude]

1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2. Superman II
3. Superman: The Movie
4. Superman Returns
5. X-Men: First Class
6. The Amazing Spider-Man
7. TMNT
8. Kick-Ass
9. The Avengers
10. Superman VS The Elite

[ObiWanFan4life]

X-Men 1,2 & First Class
Sin City
Kick-Ass
The Mask
The Dark Knight Trilogy
The Avengers
The Crow
A History of Violence
Spider Man 1,2,& Amazing
Superman I & II

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Type 97 Chi-ha

It should be noted that Alan Moore, who authored both Watchmen and V For Vendetta, liked neither movie adaptation and has his name taken off of them.

That's not *entirely* accurate. Moore claims he has not and will never see any of the film adaptations of his work, because he feels that the stories were written specifically for the comic medium and translating them to any other, especially film, is a bastardization of his works. So it's not exactly that he disliked either film; he claims he'll never even see them out of some sort of protest.

Personally, I think he should just cash the check and be glad people like his stuff so much they want to make movies out of it, rather than be a grouch. So film versions of comics are never as good as the source material; so friggin' what? You only live once, take the money and be satisfied with the fact that lots of people who see the films do go back and read the comics after the fact.

I love Alan Moore, but I have a hard time respecting anyone who takes themselves and their "art" so goddamn seriously. It's a commercial medium, prostituting your "art" for money is implicit by definition! Besides, he also didn't think "The Killing Joke" was very good, despite the fact that most fans agree it's the best Joker story ever told. He's nuts. "Watchmen" and "V For Vendetta" were both very good movies despite the flaws and deviations inherent in adapting one medium into another. Moore would be happier if he just accepted that.

Although it does explain why he put so much work into "Lost Girls"; that's the one thing he's done that is 100% guaranteed that Hollywood will NEVER go near it.

[Allio]

Its really hard to say

but when it comes to fight choreography, I say Hellboy 2

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

Originally Posted by Leo656

That's not *entirely* accurate. Moore claims he has not and will never see any of the film adaptations of his work, because he feels that the stories were written specifically for the comic medium and translating them to any other, especially film, is a bastardization of his works. So it's not exactly that he disliked either film; he claims he'll never even see them out of some sort of protest.

Personally, I think he should just cash the check and be glad people like his stuff so much they want to make movies out of it, rather than be a grouch. So film versions of comics are never as good as the source material; so friggin' what? You only live once, take the money and be satisfied with the fact that lots of people who see the films do go back and read the comics after the fact.

I love Alan Moore, but I have a hard time respecting anyone who takes themselves and their "art" so goddamn seriously. It's a commercial medium, prostituting your "art" for money is implicit by definition! Besides, he also didn't think "The Killing Joke" was very good, despite the fact that most fans agree it's the best Joker story ever told. He's nuts. "Watchmen" and "V For Vendetta" were both very good movies despite the flaws and deviations inherent in adapting one medium into another. Moore would be happier if he just accepted that.

Although it does explain why he put so much work into "Lost Girls"; that's the one thing he's done that is 100% guaranteed that Hollywood will NEVER go near it.

Actually, I did read "Watchmen" (the graphic novel series) decades ago, and I read about "V". Both movies were in fact very different from the stories they were based on. I saw the "V" movie, and if I were Alan Moore, I'd be upset as to how it turned out too. "V" the graphic novel was a post-nuclear war dystopia; "V" the movie is a dystopia somehow caused by the war against Islamism. Of course both graphic novels were made obsolete by the end of the Cold War; Hollywood by necessity had to make everything different.

[Leo656]

Yeah, it was "different", but I disagree that "different" has to mean "worse". I appreciated the nuances and the depth in storytelling in "V", but if it were taken word for word and scene for scene and turned into a movie, it wouldn't have been very good. As its own thing, the movie was very good. I especially liked the changes to the ending; having Evey adopt the V persona as in the book would have been too hokey and comic-book-y. I didn't even really like it as the ending to the book. Mostly the only people I've heard speak negatively about that movie are people who are in love with the book, while many objective observers thought it was really good. So I'm going to go with consensus and say that, differences aside, it was a good movie. I actually enjoy it quite a lot. A ton of work went into it, and that always ups my appreciation a little bit.

In fact, to refer to Watchmen, making Dr. Manhattan the patsy in the movie, rather than creating a random phony space monster, was a also brilliant way to streamline that film's story and add more dramatic tension (not to mention, even Moore admits he blatantly stole the comic's ending from an episode of "The Outer Limits"). If I were Alan Moore watching one of "my" film adaptations, I might be mad for entirely different reasons... such as several "Why didn't *I* think of that?" moments. I could totally forgive being pissed about "League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen", though... that's a really good example of what Moore's always been afraid of happening to one of his comics being turned into a film. I didn't hate it as a film as much as many do, but there's no denying it *completely* missed the point of the source material.

I realized I didn't list any of my favorite comic book movies. It would honestly be easier to list the ones I *didn't* like ("Batman Forever", "Batman & Robin", "Spider-Man 3", "Fantastic Four", to name a few). I'm generally a big fan of comic movies, and it takes a lot to piss me off. In a loose order, some of my very favorites are:
Superman Returns
Superman
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Man of Steel
Batman
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
Spider-Man
V For Vendetta
Watchmen
Captain America: The First Avenger
Avengers
Kick-Ass

And I guess TMNT by definition, although for some reason my brain doesn't really think of it as a "comic book movie", I guess because I didn't read the comics as an 8 year old when the movie came out.

I also have an appreciation for a lot of the "pretty good but not terrific" movies, like "The Punisher", "Punisher: War Zone", and the "Daredevil" Director's Cut. I also feel "Green Lantern" doesn't deserve the hate it gets, it was flawed but very faithful to the comics; if the Hammond subplot was removed it would have been a great movie. And I do like "Batman Returns", "Dark Knight Rises", "Spider-Man 2" etc. but none of them enough to be among my very favorites. I liked the first three X-Men movies well enough (have not seen "Origins: Wolverine" or "First Class" yet) but always thought they were a little bit overrated.

[Logan]

By no means a complete list, but here's a few of my favorites

Akira
Batman '89
Batman Returns
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight Rises
Ghost In the Shell
Superman II (both versions)
Man of Steel
The Punisher '04
Watchmen
V for Vendetta
Judge Dredd
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Spider-Man 1-3
The Amazing Spider-Man

[AquaParade]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight Rises

Spider-Man 2

Watchmen

[jetfire prime]

1. The Avengers
2. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
4. The Amazing Spider-Man
5. The Dark Knight
6. Spider-Man 2
7. The Crow
8. Thor