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I'm glad I clicked on that link to load the video right when Geoff posted it, even though I knew I wouldn't get to watch it til now. Pretty sweet looking. I'm not as impressed with Heath in action as I was when I first saw images of him, but oh well.

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To date, most if not all superhero comic book adaptations have left me feeling pretty cold at best. The issue for me, I think, is the use of real actors in place of traditional hand-drawn or cg animation.

 

A live actor in a superhero suit pretty much kills it for me. I grew up on the X-Men, I loved the X-Men, and as cool as Magneto or Wolverine may be on the page, they both look sort of ridiculous when played by real actors. If any movie genre is crying out for traditional animation it is the comic book adaptation. So why, oh why must we get The Thing in the form of a poorly constructed Halloween costume? Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk for instance, in the comics, The Hulk is strong and powerful beyond all measure, yet, as strong as he is, Lou Ferrigno strained a bit too much and a bit too often when tossing some po

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it should be no shocker that i respectfully disagree. :lol

 

while i will agree that a large part of the recent boon of live action super hero movies has left me a little cold as well, some have been a blast to see come to life on screen. the x-men and fantastic 4 movies are poor examples to hold as the standard.

 

the fight sequences between spiderman 2 were phenomenal...the doc oc stuff really blew me away, especially as a huge fan of the comic book. the entire hellboy movie was great. the new take on the batman stuff is good (hell, i even enjoyed the first three) and the upcoming iron man/hulk flicks look/sound promising.

 

throw in that both marvel and DC have been releasing full-length animated features of some of their comic works for some time now...they just never hit the big screen.

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it should be no shocker that i respectfully disagree. :lol

 

while i will agree that a large part of the recent boon of live action super hero movies has left me a little cold as well, some have been a blast to see come to life on screen. the x-men and fantastic 4 movies are poor examples to hold as the standard.

 

the fight sequences between spiderman 2 were phenomenal...the doc oc stuff really blew me away, especially as a huge fan of the comic book. the entire hellboy movie was great. the new take on the batman stuff is good (hell, i even enjoyed the first three) and the upcoming iron man/hulk flicks look/sound promising.

 

throw in that both marvel and DC have been releasing full-length animated features of some of their comic works for some time now...they just never hit the big screen.

 

I expect nothing less.

 

I haven

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To date, most if not all superhero comic book adaptations have left me feeling pretty cold at best. The issue for me, I think, is the use of real actors in place of traditional hand-drawn or cg animation.

 

A live actor in a superhero suit pretty much kills it for me. I grew up on the X-Men, I loved the X-Men, and as cool as Magneto or Wolverine may be on the page, they both look sort of ridiculous when played by real actors. If any movie genre is crying out for traditional animation it is the comic book adaptation. So why, oh why must we get The Thing in the form of a poorly constructed Halloween costume? Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk for instance, in the comics, The Hulk is strong and powerful beyond all measure, yet, as strong as he is, Lou Ferrigno strained a bit too much and a bit too often when tossing some po

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I'm a little late to the discussion but I wanted to chime in with my favorite comic book movies. I loved X-men 2 and Spiderman 2 just because beyond special effects and villains and all those other things they captured the essence of what those characters are about. The train sequence in Spiderman 2 reminded me of that early issue in the Ditko run where Spiderman has to lift that large piece of machinery. Also cool was how the train passengers stuck up for Spidey, showcasing that sense of his closeness to New York that's an important part of the comic. With X-men 2 I was sold after that great Nightcrawler sequence in the opening. It vividly brought to life just how it looked and you imagined it sounded in the comics. Plus, Wolverine going berserk against the soldiers was another cool touch.

And if you want to talk about faithfulness to the source material, you can't do better than Frank Miller's Sin City.

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Apparently, the first 6 minutes of the dark knight is playing before I am legend in select Imax locations. If you wanna see it bootlegged, here it is while it lasts

 

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35081

 

Apprently, maybe sometime today, this site will launch the official new trailer, or who knows what.

 

http://www.atasteforthetheatrical.com/

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Whoever is playing The Joker seems to be doing a Jack Nicholson-as-Joker impersonation. Other than that it looks fanfreakintastic!
Apparently, he went through a lot of trouble to not come off that way. Isolated himself for a month developing the character and all.
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