[Movie] Best Comic to Movie Transition

My three favorite comic book movies are X2, Spider-Man 2, and Elektra, in that order. Out of those, I'd say Spider-Man 2 was truest to the comics. I haven't seen Sin City to say if it is or not.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by vemp

And that movie got Catwoman RIGHT-ON!

I said this somewhere else recently. If they got Catwoman "RIGHT-ON" then why is she blonde?

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Denicalis

Immediate disqualification for reasons of fucking awful taste.

Disqualified for adding nothing to the thread.

Originally Posted by Jessykins &lt

Spiderman, Sin City, Punisher (I thought) and soon enough 300.

Having had little exposure to the character, I would say that Punisher was a good representation of the character, despite being a little over the top.

I can tell from this thread that there are a lot of Frank Miller fans, what with all the Sin City suggestions and the few 300 guesses.

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

Originally Posted by LeHah

The Phantom.

I don't want to sound nitpicky, but The Phantom started as a comic strip, not a comic book. I suppose that might still count, considering how little difference there is between how he was written in strip form and how has been and is being written in book form.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Reznor

More like disqualified for not knowing a thing about the Punisher.

That would've made more sense if this post dealt with the original item that was response toward.

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A) His daughter magically had a sex-change that affected the plot in absolutely no way. Plus, a few series arcs in the Punisher (Especially Volume 5 (MAX Print a la Steve Dillon and Garth Ennis)) dealt with not only the loss of his wife, but his daughter.

I'm not sure why they changed the child's gender either. Maybe it was done to parallel Castle killing Howard Saint's son. But I don't consider it an important enough aspect of the character to complain about it.

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B) The fact that they jumbled two (three?) different story arcs from 'In the Beginning' (him killing his family's killers) and Volume 3 (his place of residence/the weirdos he lives with/giving them the loot).

How is this a drawback? Because within the confines of the movie, it works, unlike another comic book movie I know that tries to tie together three different story arcs.

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C) The lack of over-the-topness. It's apparent you haven't read a Punisher comic if you think that the movie is over the top.

I don't think the movie is over the top. I think it's over the top in portions, most notably at the end of the climax.

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D) The fact that MOST of the gore was cut out, entirely, to get a lame ass PG13 rating. I'm sorry, but I grew up reading the Punisher, it was not as violent as I had hoped. =/

I don't think the use of gore was necessary in the instances that it wasn't used. I can hardly imagine what I would've thought if they had actually shown all those piercings being removed.

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E) Go read the fucking books.

No.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by IdentikitOfEyes

Smallville was not supposed to be about Bruce Wyane growing up because he lived in a mansion on the outskirts of Gotham City. Yet, Clark Kent was found and rasied in Smallville, Kansas. Granted those that make the show are not that bright, they know if they would have dont something like that there would have been alot of bitching.

If the idea LeHah referenced had gone through, it wouldn't have been called Smallville.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?