Movies inspired by Marvel Comics: Past and Future
Submitted by buber on Wed, 03/07/2001 - 12:47
Tags:
- Movies already Released
- The Fantastic Four (thanks lbangs)
- X-Men
- Blade
- Blade 2
- The Punisher
- Spider-Man
- Movies in Production
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- The Hulk
- Ghost Rider
- Sub-Mariner
- Daredevil
- X-Men 2
- The Fantastic Four (thanks lbangs)
- The Punisher
Author Comments:
X-Men is probably the best movie inspired by Marvel Comics that I've seen, though, to be honest, the competition isn't so good. I also really liked Spider-Man, feeling it captured well the spirit of the comic.
There's already been a Fantastic Four, and there is one in production for 2004.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Thanks for the info!
No problem. Fun list. Ah, the memories. I collected Marvel comics as a young teenager. I mowed a lot of lawns and bought a lot of titles. We always used to poke fun at the D.C. comic collectors.
Nothing sadder than nerds making fun of nerds... :)
I quit around the age of 16, and outside of an occasional borrowed Frank Miller title or Vertigo comic, I don't think I've read one since...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I actually still go back and forth. I have spells when I miss it a lot and get into it a bit, then others where I get tired of poor writing/art and drop it (this is probably correlated a bit to the amount of extra cash I feel I have for these kinds of things). Once in a while there is enough buzz about certain books that I can't help but look into them (like Warren Ellis' The Authority and Planetary for example). But, like you, my comics hey-day was when I was a teenager.
Oddly enough, I still own a self-modified Marvel Super Heroes Roleplaying game and confess I still long to run into somebody interested in playing it.
Had my life gone just a little differently, I think I might have ended up as the comic book worker in the Simpsons...
I am completely out of the comic circle and have heard no buzz since Sin City and the Death miniseries of the early 90s. So, the ones you mentioned were pretty popular? Were they good?
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Well, Warren Ellis has definitely generated a lot of buzz around his work. I like some of his stuff. He is trying, to varying levels of success, to push the superhero comic in new directions. The Authority, for example, had as its concept a bunch of heroes who get fed up and just basically rule the world. Sort of like a JLA, but much more proactive, trying, with their might, to fix the world, but with the consequences that would follow if a bunch of superheroes tried to impose their will on the world. This stuff is a couple of years old already. I've been out of the loop for 2 or so years, so don't know who is generating any buzz now.
lbangs, I see you've referenced Frank Miller twice in this thread. Have you read 300, which is his version of the battle of Thermopylae? Given your affinity for the ancient Greeks it might be right up your alley (although it takes some dramatic liberties, from what I understand).
Wow, I didn't even know that existed. I just finished Herodotus' account of the battle early last week. Wild.
I'll have to search that one out. Thanks!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Continuing in this vein, one of my Christmas gifts was Gates of Fire. Quite looking forward to that one, even if I have a nagging feeling I should read some of the Greek sources first.