What are the best comic book/super hero movies?

Recently, I loved Kick Ass, Scott Pilgrim, Avengers/Iron Man/Thor (Captian America was arrrright). Didn't love Nolan's Batman (Heath Ledger's Joker notwithstanding). Most recent Spiderman >>> Toby's Spiderman. Um um I liked both of the modern Hulk movies in their own way (the ending of the 1st one was the absolute worst though).

Also, is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) the best/most underrated comic book/super hero movie of all time?

So much to talk about. Give it to me.

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Love the puppet TMNT, remember loving them as a kid growing up.


I've recently been getting into The Watchmen. Watched it once, didn't care too much for it. Got a couple of the graphic novels and I'm starting to understand why people dig it. Much different from the average comic book story, and a lot of great underlying tones/themes that get the brain churning.


Love anything Frank Miller is involved with, Kickass, and V for Vendetta are a couple others that I can get into whenever they're on.


Just wish they'd make Y the Last Man into a movie, as long as they don't mess it up, haha.

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I thought V for Vendetta was awful. Just awful. Pacing was terrible, too many plot holes, story was weak. Just a bad movie.

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I agree Howard the Duck is pretty awesome.

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Scott Pilgrim. I liked how his love interest was cute, but someone aesthetically on par with any ol Snohomish County chick. Zeb was all about Knives Chao, but he's a racist.

I liked the Hulk movies, they’re kind of underrated.

All the Marvel phase one movies trump everything. We’ll see if DC steps up with Superman.

Scott Pilgrim might be a top 10 movie for me. And no, I was more of a Ramona Flowers type of gal.

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I read your comments to everybody in the studio here with me and they all hate you now too. Way to be.

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The Batman with Jack Nicholson.

Still my favorite Batman.

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Racist.

Condorman count?

I havent watched the 2nd Dark Knight Returns yet, the animated Frank Millar one. The first wasnt too bad. Wow, i am a nerd.

Word.

I'm not a really big comic book movie kinda guy, but I have enjoyed this most recent Avengers stuff. The Hulk is the best character out of all of them. Really, really well done in this one, and by far my favorite rendition of him.

And totally agree this time around Spiderman is far, far better than the whiny little bitch boy that Toby McGuire played. By the end of any of those movies, you just wanted to strangle him and get it over with.

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A shout out for MIB (the first one only) from me.

Haven't followed the comic books since the 60's or so, so I can't say how any of the movies portrayed the originals in any but the Superman series. Chris Reeves did that one well.

300 (from the graphic novel) was pretty good, although a bit over the top in some scenes (I'm pretty sure nobody has ever domesticated a rhino, for one thing ). But it actually captured the spirit of the Spartan fighting men as well as I've seen, except maybe for the original live action 300 Spartans, which it's derived from.

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Forgot to mention Mystery Men as a ridiculous superhero movie. I mostly like that movie because I'm a huge mark for anything Tom Waits...and he's a mad scientist...what could be better?

Not to mention Hank Azaria, Artie Lange, Kel Mitchell, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo, Michael Bay, Ceelo Green, Dane Cook, Paul Reubens and William H. Macy all managing to find roles in this film. There's probably more people, but these are the only ones I've found thus far. Maybe I'll watch it again and see if I recognize anyone as a stand-in or something.

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Sin City? Anyone? Anyone?

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I gave Frank Miller some love.

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Scott Pilgram, 100%. That movie is absolutely the best adaptation of a comic book novel series ever presented.

BTW, I'm an Envy kind of guy. Love high-maintenance!

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Zeb, you lost all credibility with the part about not liking Nolan's Batman movies. At least, numbers one and two. Damn, dude. :-( That's like saying you support giving cancer to puppies and kittens. Why do you support cancer, Zeb? WHY???

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Sam Bradford is a game changer.

*He can change a win into a loss.
*He can change a loss into a win by getting injured.
*RedAlice is right.

Explains lead admin choice.

Don't care. It's a dreadful film. I didn't care for Scott pilgrim, but I didn't read the comic. Most of the fans of the comic i've talked to really dug it, so I'll give it a pass.

Sin City was fantastic, and i'm eagerly awaiting the next movie coming out this year.

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I didn't care for V for Vendetta either, Peaches. High five!

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Sam Bradford is a game changer.

*He can change a win into a loss.
*He can change a loss into a win by getting injured.
*RedAlice is right.

V was ok.

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Right back at ya, slick....

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Movies not mentioned: The Crow, From Hell, Road to Perdition.

I think Sin City really is the best done comic movie. Frank Miller is a total badass and offered a lot of help to Rodriguez on doing it right.

And V for Vendetta wasn't great. But I haven't liked Natalie Portman as an actor since The Professional.

Nor has Natalie been bangable since The Professional.

LMAO

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Damnit Pehawk, this isn't the shack or PWR.

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Sam Bradford is a game changer.

*He can change a win into a loss.
*He can change a loss into a win by getting injured.
*RedAlice is right.

The Crow - yes indeed! Fantastic movie. Road to Perdition was also good. And I completely agree on Natalie Portman. Don't care for her as an actress at all.

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I actually thought Natalie Portman was pretty good in Black Swan, personally.

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Sam Bradford is a game changer.

*He can change a win into a loss.
*He can change a loss into a win by getting injured.
*RedAlice is right.

I've never read the Scott Pilgrim comic. It's just a great movie.

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Bale's Batman voice ruined it for me. I just can't get passed it. That and the whole Two-Face thing was stupid. Bale's great as Bruce Wayne. Bane was stupid. Don't like Maggie Gyllenhaal. Don't like Katie Holmes. Anne Hathaway's best asset is her ass. Michael Caine's awesome, as is Morgan Freeman, obviously. Heath's Joker was obviously amazeballs. Don't like Liam Neeson. But all that aside, it's the Batman voice. It's like Jar Jar Binks. Unimaginably stupid. Also I do support giving cancer to puppies, or at least making them fight to the death. Not kittens though.

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I agree about Bale's Batman voice. Completely unnecessary and hackish, and really the only thing about those movies that annoys me. Well, aside from him miraculously healing from a crippling back injury like that, that was really stupid.

Aside from that, the movies are great.

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Bale's Batman voice in the first one was awesome. In #s 2 and 3, it was retardedly over the top and I despised it. I didn't let it change the entire film for me, though.

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Sam Bradford is a game changer.

*He can change a win into a loss.
*He can change a loss into a win by getting injured.
*RedAlice is right.

Me either, but it was bad.

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Anyway, I said I didn't love Nolan's Batmans. It's not like I'm saying they were shitty movies.

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Too late for redemption, Zeb. Just leave.

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Sam Bradford is a game changer.

*He can change a win into a loss.
*He can change a loss into a win by getting injured.
*RedAlice is right.

I don't have any issue with Bale changing his voice, he is trying to conceal a secret identity after all. I feel like he could have done something else though, instead of making it as raspy as he did.


The Scott Pilgrim trades are a great read, and if anyone has teenagers that are interested in getting into comics, that would be a great start.


Also, WOW at that professional comment, LOL! So true.


Seriously though, total fox.

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Avatar sucks.

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Sam Bradford is a game changer.

*He can change a win into a loss.
*He can change a loss into a win by getting injured.
*RedAlice is right.

As a fan of Community, I can't watch any of Nolan's Batman movies without hearing Danny Pudi's Batman voice and chuckling. I almost had to excuse myself from the theater during Dark Knight Rises.



and Scott Pilgrim was excellent. I had never read the graphic novel, but the movie hooked me with the 16-bit rendition of the Universal
theme followed by the music to the opening of Legend of Zelda playing as the camera scanned down on Scott's place,
exactly like the game starts.

Best super hero movie right now, for me, is Avengers. Joss Whedon + comics + movie = awesome

All of these great comic movies, and no mention of Constantine? Never read the comics though so can't compare them. I also thought Keanu Reeves was pretty good in this movie, no surfer fallback like he usually does in his other flicks.

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That's hilarious! And you're pretty much spot on with everything else. You're opinions are correct.

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I haven't seen it for a long time, so maybe I'd feel differently if I were to watch it again.... but I remember really enjoying "The Punisher." Definitely a bit corny and unrealistic- but that's what comics and comic book movies are meant for!

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Which version, Dolph Lundgren or the good one with Thomas Jane?

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Does it make me a bad person that I liked both the Dolph Lundgren and Thomas Jane Punisher movies?

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Sam Bradford is a game changer.

*He can change a win into a loss.
*He can change a loss into a win by getting injured.
*RedAlice is right.

Possibly, do you punch babies in the face as well?

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Err...Well..I did after our loss at San Francisco.

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Sam Bradford is a game changer.

*He can change a win into a loss.
*He can change a loss into a win by getting injured.
*RedAlice is right.

Who didn't? But, the Lundgren Punisher is the lesser of the two choices, and I can't get on anyone for liking bad movies as I absolutely loved the film Rubber, and it was a pointless movie.

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I tried to watch Avatar, really I did. 30 minutes into it I quit. So stupid.

Which Avatar?

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Sam Bradford is a game changer.

*He can change a win into a loss.
*He can change a loss into a win by getting injured.
*RedAlice is right.