The All About Comic Book Movies Thread

Robert Rodriguez is a great choice.

I am proud that I have never seen Ghost Rider.
 
ProjectX2 said:
Robert Rodriguez is a great choice.

I am proud that I have never seen Ghost Rider.
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I had three choices for GR, Rodriguez because of his all around awesomeness, Tarantino (picture Deathproof with flaming motorcycles), and Dell Toro for his character design skills, imagine Hell as designed by Dell Toro it would be amazing.
 
Gemini said:
I had three choices for GR, Rodriguez because of his all around awesomeness, Tarantino (picture Deathproof with flaming motorcycles), and Dell Toro for his character design skills, imagine Hell as designed by Dell Toro it would be amazing.
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I smell triple feature.
 
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

please let this happen.

Another link and some info on more DC adaptations.

...and even more from the Hollywood Reporter
the last article is really interesting. some highlights:

  • WB has hired Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison and Marv Wolfman as consultants for its DC films.
  • Geoff Johns has worked on a new 'Flash' script, and will act as a producer on the film.
  • Movies in the pipeline include: Adam Strange, Aquaman, Bizarro Superman, a Constantine sequel, two Green Arrow movies (an origin story and "Supermax"), and Shazam.
  • They are also pursuing another Nolan Batman, and a new Superman.

It all looks good as far as I'm concerned. I do think that a Bizarro Superman movie would be a bad idea...unless they some how managed to set the character up in a Superman movie. It'd be a better idea to focus on their main heroes.
 
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ProjectX2 said:
Louis Leterrier dreams of epic Avengers quadrilogy released over one summer.
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That is an interesting idea but would really fail, trying to finance four movies at once is very tough and making them shorter and basically sequel could end very poorly. I think they should keep each movie as stand alone as possible. Much like Iron Man and Hulk already are. Just have that little tease at the end.
The First Avenger: Captain America described as "Raiders meets Rocketeer and Saving Private Ryan".
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That's a good description of how the movie should feel.
 
Random said:
That is an interesting idea but would really fail, trying to finance four movies at once is very tough and making them shorter and basically sequel could end very poorly. I think they should keep each movie as stand alone as possible. Much like Iron Man and Hulk already are. Just have that little tease at the end.
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Man, is it a cool idea, though. The Return of the Superhero Serial...

I think the concept could work if they just limited it to two or maybe even three movies. Four movies just makes everything confusing, though. The main reason I think a 'Summer Quadrilogy' would fail would be that the casual filmgoing audience wouldn't be able (or wouldn't be bothered) to keep up with the movies after the first one, leading to a complete loss of interest by the time the fourth one was released. After all, comic-book fans and enthusiastic superhero-movie fans (which, to be fair, is a growing number) only form a certain percentage of the people who pay to see these films.

The other problem is that Louis Leterrier is a so-so director and would make another forgettable, churned-out film, like The Incredible Hulk.
 
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SSJmole said:
I liked The Incredible Hulk.
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It was a stupid, pointless, paint-by-numbers film with churned out writing, performances and an obvious, predictable plot. Nothing about it surprised or wowed me in any way.

Not to mention, I thought the CGI was straight out of a PS2 game.
 
Gothamite said:
It was a stupid, pointless, paint-by-numbers film with churned out writing, performances and an obvious, predictable plot. Nothing about it surprised or wowed me in any way.

Not to mention, I thought the CGI was straight out of a PS2 game.
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Let's not start the cgi debate again. I already said my piece on that in the cgi poll.

But as for an "an obvious, predictable plot." Iron man had that in a lot of ways like I mentioned before. E.g the gift solar heart was obviously going to save him after it was gifted to him.

Spider-man 1 and 2 (2 more so as it was basically the first) were predictable. the point i'm making is 99% of comic movies are have "obvious, predictable plot"

pointless? no it wasn't. It set up hulk and abomination for the avengers movie. And was a pretty good movie. No it was deep or dark it was fun and pretty cool to watch. The acting was not that bad.

No it's not the best comic movie. But you make it sound as bad as "batman & robin" "catwoman" "steel" and more horrible movies.
 
Gothamite said:
It was a stupid, pointless, paint-by-numbers film with churned out writing, performances and an obvious, predictable plot. Nothing about it surprised or wowed me in any way.

Not to mention, I thought the CGI was straight out of a PS2 game.
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The ending was contrived and the CGI was pretty damn terrible at points, but aside from that, I thought it was a rather enjoyable popcorn flick.
 
thee great one said:
Iron Man was pretty predictable.
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It's true. And the denouement was fairly arbitrary and forced. Despite the silliness of it, Incredible Hulk did a pretty good job of building towards a climax, whereas the majority of superhero films just sort of tack the big villain/hero fight abruptly to the end of the movie.
 
Incredible Hulk was decent but compared to Iron Man it was pretty disappointing.
 
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