finally the end of the comic book film conversion era?

[KennyR]

Transformers the movie.

Worst movie conversion idea ever?

I can hardly wait for all that ultra-phoney looking CGI, the bad screenplay, the cliche characters, and the script that could have been written by a 6 year old from watching an episode of Thundercats.

Hmm, on second thoughts...Thundercats would be the worst movie conversion ever.

[mikeymike]

I hope you're not knocking Thundercats, that was one of my favourite cartoons :-P

[mikeymike]

'Batman Begins' teaser trailer available.  I have some hope for this film, it isn't directed by Joel "turn everything into a gay joke" Schumacher:

http://batmanbegins.warnerbros.com/

Impressive lineup: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/

[Cyberus]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
simply put:
I don't like Hollywood movies
none of them.
They don't have any soul as well as MCwhatsoeverburgers have no taste.

I'd have to agree. Hollywood films seem to do escapism and fantasy, beautiful people, etc whereas European films (and I'm not including British films, cos their all crap too) do human emotion, emotion that all of us can relate to.

Also, compare Das Boot and Stalingrad with American war films - Shaving Ryan's Privates was such a ridiculous idea!

[seer]

Haven't watched the trailer, but in the lineup I'm missing "the joker".. Wasn't it he who "created" Batman ?


What did you think about the Spiderman movies ?

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Cyberus wrote:
(and I'm not including British films, cos their all crap too)

Well, I thought there are some good British films, for instance Billy Elliot, or Iris.

[mikeymike]

seer wrote:
Haven't watched the trailer, but in the lineup I'm missing "the joker".. Wasn't it he who "created" Batman ?

I think that was a variation for the first Batman film, just like there are variations between the various X-Men series (between each other) and the films.

Though I've never read any Batman comics.

Watched Batman (the film, Tim Burton) last night :-)

[seer]

Though I've never read any Batman comics.

Watched Batman (the film, Tim Burton) last night

IIRC, the comics also pointed the Joker as the man who murdered Bruce's parents, but, like Superman, the background/concept of Batman has been rewritten several times..

Then again, been years since I read the comics, and I always prefered Spiderman.. The latest movies have taken most of the good points of the comics and IMHO didn't damage a thing. (Biggest change is the way SPidey handles his web, in the comic he makes it with chemistry and some gadget.. In the movie it's built in so to say)