1. My top three, in no particular order: Batman Begins - Christian Bale is the best Batman, period (slight edge over Keaton), and the rest of the cast is awesome also; can't believe Frank Miller didn't get script credit though, plenty of nods to Year One and Dark Knight Returns. Tank Girl - fun movie, well-integrated comic-art cut scenes. Spider-Man 2 - both of Raimi's spider-movies are excellent, I'm just picking this one b/c Doc Oc was always one of my favorite baddies. Just missed my cut: Tim Burton's Batman, X-Men 2.
2. Worst three - so many to choose from here, and I haven't even seen the Fantastic Four or Hulk yet (although I know several people who really liked Hulk). And I'm not even going to link to Catwoman. I'm gonna have to go with Superman IV, which introduced us to Nuclear Man (anyone remember him?). Batman Forever, one of Schumacher's disasters, has to be next; could acting talent be wasted any more than Tommy Lee Jones' was as Two-Face? Fortunately, not many people saw the 1990 version of Captain America, which featured J.D. Salinger's actor son Matt as Captain A(wful).
Upcoming films, which certainly have the potential to make these lists:
- Jon Favreau-directed Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr., due out in 2008.
- Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, 2007 release.
- Ghost Rider, starring Nicholas Cage. This could be spectacularly terrible.
- Wonder Woman, directed and written by Joss Whedon. Intriguing...
- Spider-Man 3, with Venom! I'm stoked, dudes!
- The Dark Knight, the next Nolan Batman, with Heath Ledger as the Joker (2008).
- X-Men prequel, Wolverine, 2008.
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How about the Transformers movie - old and new? Eric Idle in the original is sweet - AND Orson Wells, Judd Nelson, Leonard Nimoy! The new movie might be terrible due to Michael Bay's involvement, but the previews look awesome.
hey- I liked Hulk. Sin City, for all it's crass bravado was goddamn amazing as well, and I might put that'n at the top regardless of the controversy that seems to follow.
Xmen 3 was deplorable.. I remember halfway through, scott's wife pulls out her mobile ion the theatre and starts to text, and at first I thought 'well how rude' but i didn't even complete that thought before i realized, 'mmyeah this sucks'
I'm sure transformers will be a swanky action packed movie now- but I know it won't have much if anything to do with the silly little cartoons I loved as a child. And in whose likeness I went out in costume last night.
I considered Transformers as not applicable to this topic, b/c I only considered films based on characters that originated from comic books. While Transformers was a comic title, they were a toy first.
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