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American Psycho is frickin' hilarious if you watch it as the spoof of the 80's it is intended to be, instead of a horror movie...watching Patrick get steamed because someone has a better business card or dinner reservations, and explaining the musicology of Huey Lewis while dismembering someone is great...

The 1st Batman was classic-Nicholson deserved an Oscar,IMO....all the rest blew
 
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Sloopy45 said:
Movies based on comics (with the exception of Spider-Man) mostly suck. They eff around with the characters that people have loved for 50+ years, and mostly eat alphabet soup and shit out a script.

Anyone seen the pics from the upcoming Fantastic Four movie? This looks like another winner. I think I could do a better job of making the Thing and Doctor Doom costumes:
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I like the X-men movies best myself. Spiderman is good but I've never been much of a fan. I used to love the X-men cartoons. I'll be throwing down my $5 to see Electra next week just like I'm going to be glued to Alias tonight.

I'm sorry but I couldn't get passed the 2 things on Jessica Alba's chest.
 
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BuckinMichigan: "There were a lot of 40 year old male virgins committing suicide in their mothers' basements when that was announced."

Yeah, I heard that too. I do get people's points however, to not take too many liberties with the characters. I mean, first off, these are characters and story lines that have withstood the test of time: people have loved and I mean LOVED these comics for many, many years. But all of a sudden, we're making a movie and those same great characters are no good anymore, so we have to eff with it?? Makes no sense to me.

That's why Spiderman was a good flick. It didn't take many liberties and just basically reproduced the old Spider-Man comic book when the Green Goblin died. A comic is not another movie that you can't copy, its a magazine that people would like to see reproduced on the big screen with live people!

If these Hollywood morons want some good advice (and this advice is worth millions because a good comic book movie is worth many, many sequels): just take the best storyline in the long history of X-Men, Spiderman, Captain America, whoever, AND PUT IT ON THE SILVER SCREEN EXACTLY AS IT IS!!

Has anyone seen the Hulk? That might be the worst frickin' movie of all time! Whoever produced/wrote/directed that piece of garbage should be fired because he cost his company millions!! A halfway decent Hulk movie (which wouldn't have been hard to do) would've had at least two more sequels, and now you'd be hard pressed to find someone stupid enough to plunk down $9 for Hulk 2.

BuckeyeLuvChild: "Giant penguin palbearers?"

See above. BINGO.

exhawg: "I like the X-men movies best myself."

I hated em. I used to read X-Men comics as a kid, they were one of my favorites. Again, JUST REPRODUCE THE DAMN COMIC!! It would be nice to see Wolverine, et al. in costume instead of Hugh Jackman running around in black leather.

"I'm sorry but I couldn't get passed the 2 things on Jessica Alba's chest."

You mean these?? Maybe I will have to check out this movie. Too bad Jessica plays the INVISIBLE Girl.

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Sloopy did you collect comics when you were younger? I quit probably in 94-95ish, still have them all upstairs though.
I didn't have a lot of X-Men, just a few like when Wolverine lost his adamentium skeleton.

I used to like Savage Dragon a lot until Larson lost his other titles and just combined all his characters into the Dragon comic.
Superman of course
I have a ton of Transformers and Spawn
Green Lantern
and probably the best storyline wise, The Spectre. Too bad they don't make something like that into a movie.
 
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Too much CGI needed for Spectre, unless they stick with Jim Corrigan or recently Hal Jordan (Why God, why?) his human "guide" for the majority of the story.

I still collect, mostly DC, but was hacked when they wouldn't give Larson a shot at Wolverine.

The Superman movie is bound to flop whether its good or not. Even if Hollywood gets it right after the plethora of directors and main actors this film has gone through in 3 years, (not counting 10-15 completely different scripts), too many diverse groups of fans to please them all. Reeve fans believe no one will top that and then see it to pick it apart, the general public who knows next to nothing will expect Matrix quality FX and pacing, and the comic fans will want a story and of course pick it apart if its an iota out of cannon.

Elektra? I don't know anything about her, but Garner's hot.
Fantastic Four? Not on the first weekend, and probably recieve it as a Christmas gift next year.
Magneto? Man, if done right, how many villians get their own movie? That could be cool.
 
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god i hope that fantastic four movie sucks ass. jessica alba is just a few more shitty movies / tv series away from having to do nudity to remain in hollywood. man i love this country.

and in accordance with the golden rule of not mentioning hot chicks without pics, i bring you pics of the lovely jessica alba on vacation recently in my favorite position.
 

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American Psycho is frickin' hilarious if you watch it as the spoof of the 80's it is intended to be, instead of a horror movie...watching Patrick get steamed because someone has a better business card or dinner reservations, and explaining the musicology of Huey Lewis while dismembering someone is great...

The 1st Batman was classic-Nicholson deserved an Oscar,IMO....all the rest blew
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the scene where he tries to get dinner reservations at that posh NY restaurant and the guy on the other end of the phone can't stop laughing is just priceless.
 
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Sloopy45 said:
I do get people's points however, to not take too many liberties with the characters. I mean, first off, these are characters and story lines that have withstood the test of time: people have loved and I mean LOVED these comics for many, many years. But all of a sudden, we're making a movie and those same great characters are no good anymore, so we have to eff with it?? Makes no sense to me.

That's why Spiderman was a good flick. It didn't take many liberties and just basically reproduced the old Spider-Man comic book when the Green Goblin died. A comic is not another movie that you can't copy, its a magazine that people would like to see reproduced on the big screen with live people!

Has anyone seen the Hulk? That might be the worst frickin' movie of all time! Whoever produced/wrote/directed that piece of garbage should be fired because he cost his company millions!! A halfway decent Hulk movie (which wouldn't have been hard to do) would've had at least two more sequels, and now you'd be hard pressed to find someone stupid enough to plunk down $9 for Hulk 2.
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I don't mind them taking some liberties with some of the characters and I understand they are trying to bring in fans who read the comics and also general moviegoers. The tough part for them is that many of these books had stories that took years to evolve and the studios need to condense it into no more than two hours. I liked X-Men because I think it was a good start. Spiderman, especially the second, have been great. The most important thing was to get a good script and a better director.

I was just talking to my brother and he was bitching about how he rented Hulk and it was a waste of time. I rented it last year and watched it on fast forward. That strikes me as a movie that could be much better the second time round because they don't have to explain how he became the Hulk.

Sounds like I need to see American Psycho again and maybe read the book.
 
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VG- very nice.

Agreed. Both X-Men and SpiderMan movies have told stories that made the action more dramatic, rather than action just for action's sake. With B. Singer (XMen director) helming Superman, I think it stands a much better chance. Now, Ang Lee directing Hulk? WTF?! Did the studio even WATCH Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Had he used the same story-telling process Raimi used with SpiderMan, and cut out the inane fight with Banner's father, I think it would have gone over better.
 
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max_sterling: "Sloopy did you collect comics when you were younger? I quit probably in 94-95ish, still have them all upstairs though."

Yes, I was a comic junkie till about the age of 12 (1987). I still remember all the backstories and such. I read just about everything I could get my hands on. I still got 'em locked away at my Dad's house somewhere.

"I didn't have a lot of X-Men, just a few like when Wolverine lost his adamentium skeleton."

I have a ton of 'em, and all the first ones with the New X-Men (Giant Size X-Men # 1, Uncanny X-Men # 94, etc.: all the classics from that era). Those're probably the best ones I own, and are probably worth a shitload of money right now.

"I used to like Savage Dragon a lot until Larson lost his other titles and just combined all his characters into the Dragon comic."

Past my time, Max. I have no clue what any of that means, sorry.

BuckeyeLuvChild: "The Superman movie is bound to flop whether its good or not."

Its unfortunate, but Superman is just a dated character. He's too boring for kids today. He doesn't have the personality leeway (like Wolverine, for example) to come up with the interesting or "cool" stories readers are looking for today. DC started to attempt to remake him 20 years ago (with John Byrne's Man of Steel) and 100 attempts later, is still trying with no success.

Superman was created in the late 1930's, and is still basically the same character today.

BuckInMichigan: "The tough part for them is that many of these books had stories that took years to evolve and the studios need to condense it into no more than two hours."

Very true. Like for example, the story that put the X-Men on the map was the whole Dark Phoenix saga in the late 70's. Its a great GREAT story, but there's no way you can make it exactly into a movie because I think the whole kit and caboodle lasted almost 40 issues: from # 97 through 134, if memory serves.
 
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