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The 7 Least-Faithful Comic Book Movies

Started by TMC1982, November 23, 2007, 10:34:39 PM

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TMC1982

I'm very surprised that "Catwoman" with Halle Berry isn't on this list:
http://www.cracked.com/article_15665...ok-movies.html

7. The Hulk (Ang Lee's version)

6. Judge Dredd

5. Constantine

4. The Mask

3. Superman III

2. Howard the Duck

1. Batman and Robin

RoninFox

Quote from: TMC1982 on November 23, 2007, 10:34:39 PM
I'm very surprised that "Catwoman" with Halle Berry isn't on this list:
http://www.cracked.com/article_15665...ok-movies.html

Maybe they assumed Catwoman wasn't really even a comic book movie?  It bore no resemblance to the comic Catwoman except that she wore a tight outfit with cat ears after all.
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Junkyard

This list is ridiculous. Constantine is 5? Catwoman and Elektra aren't even on it?

It appears they put the films they liked the least on the list and called them the least faithful.

Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck

Quote from: TMC1982 on November 23, 2007, 10:34:39 PM
7. The Hulk (Ang Lee's version)

There's another Incredible Hulk film? 

I mean, we'd have to be assuming that TV-Movies are completely out of the running for this since that so-called version of "Wonder Woman" with Cathy Lee Crosby wasn't #1 on the list.

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RoninFox

Quote from: GregMcduck on November 24, 2007, 10:51:42 AM
The Generation X tv movie ranks up there on the unfaithful list:

http://www.pop-arena.com/articles/genx.html

Holy crap, I was just thinking about that movie.  I still have it taped off of Fox somewhere in my old VHS shelf.

I don't know WHY I still have it, but I do.  Guess I could just never find it when I could tape over it.
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Quote from: RoninFox on November 24, 2007, 03:16:41 PM
Quote from: GregMcduck on November 24, 2007, 10:51:42 AM
The Generation X tv movie ranks up there on the unfaithful list:

http://www.pop-arena.com/articles/genx.html

Holy crap, I was just thinking about that movie.  I still have it taped off of Fox somewhere in my old VHS shelf.

I don't know WHY I still have it, but I do.  Guess I could just never find it when I could tape over it.
Maybe I'll make a deal with you for it....I love Matt Frewer.

RoninFox

sounds good.  I'll make sure I can still find it and get back to you.
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Cool beans!

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gbeenie

Quote from: Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck on November 24, 2007, 07:48:54 AM

I mean, we'd have to be assuming that TV-Movies are completely out of the running for this since that so-called version of "Wonder Woman" with Cathy Lee Crosby wasn't #1 on the list.

In the interest of fairness, I should point out that, in the early 70s, DC Comics tried an experiment wherein Wonder Woman was stripped of her powers, and took to wearing a (white!) pantsuit. Needless to say, this phase didn't last.

Besides, that TV movie contains one of my favorite nuggets of dialogue ever:

Hench-Guy: Make love to me.
Wonder Woman: Why?
HG: Because you're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen.
WW: No; I meant, why should I?
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I think Catwoman wasn't on the list because it was "a" catwoman, not "the" catwoman from the comics.

Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck

Quote from: gbeenie on November 24, 2007, 07:08:39 PM
Quote from: Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck on November 24, 2007, 07:48:54 AM

I mean, we'd have to be assuming that TV-Movies are completely out of the running for this since that so-called version of "Wonder Woman" with Cathy Lee Crosby wasn't #1 on the list.

In the interest of fairness, I should point out that, in the early 70s, DC Comics tried an experiment wherein Wonder Woman was stripped of her powers, and took to wearing a (white!) pantsuit. Needless to say, this phase didn't last.

Besides, that TV movie contains one of my favorite nuggets of dialogue ever:

Hench-Guy: Make love to me.
Wonder Woman: Why?
HG: Because you're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen.
WW: No; I meant, why should I?
Yeah....that "Diana Prince Debacle"....  Lucky me.  It had to happen when I was a kid.

But I don't think that movie was styled after that.  It didn't have her traveling around with a blind Asian guru, did it?

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I still don't understand why people are so down on Ang Lee's Hulk movie.  I think it's one of the better comic book movies out there.  And it seems like this guy's main complaint about the Hulk movie is that it made him have to think!  Well, what's wrong with that? 
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