[Movie] Best Comic to Movie Transition

The Phantom.

Of all the comic book movies ever made - and we can all admit it's been a pretty iffy bunch - not a one has hit the nail on the head as well as this underrated gem from the 90s.

It's meant to be a cheesy throwback to the same serials that inspired Indiana Jones, and it does it well with a lot of gorgeous action set peices, a stupid grin from Billy Zane behind that rubber suit and some incredible scene chewing by Treat Williams as Xander Drax. It's meant to be cheap, silly rainy Saturday afternoon fare and it does it in spades.

Yeah, other movies may be better like Spider-Man 2 or Batman Begins, but no other superhero movie has understood it's source material half as well as The Phantom.

Honorable Mentions: Ghost World, Road To Perdition, Batman Begins, Superman, Hulk

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Originally Posted by Acro-nym

I don't want to sound nitpicky, but The Phantom started as a comic strip, not a comic book.

He was also the first superhero. Whats your point?

One of the reasons that there are so few issues of Action Comics #1 is that they were used as "filler" for newspaper comic strips the year after. They actually cut up the comics and pasted them onto "new" strips, so they'd pay the artist less. Does that discredit a comic book because it was made into a strip? Not at all. Pull your head out of your ass.

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Originally Posted by JackyBoy

Some ordinary dude gains super human abilities and it's his job to fight crime and avenge his mother/brother/sister/father/second cousin/girlfriend/family etc etc.

As opposed to some ordinary dude saving a kid from a child molester, who later seeks his revenge against them both? I mean, one of the big points of Sin City is that it is a gigantic cliche.

Not that I'm knocking Sin City but after the story with Marv, the rest of it is a retread of a retread. The over-the-top violence and attempt to recreate Miller's white-on-black inkwork becomes tiring and stale after about an hour.

This doesn't mean that there aren't other Superhero movies that are stale, tired retreads - but for what it is, the movie is middle of the road.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by The Furious One

I was so hoping he was the new superhero in smallville, but then I remembered he is Marvel

Small fact: Smallville was originally suppose to be a show about Bruce Wayne growing up, not Clark Kent.

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