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Best Comics-based Movies

When you're a comics fan and a movie fan, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. With the exception of the first two Superman movies, comic book-based movies sucked for decades. But the past few years reversed that trend with such great franchises as Spider-Man, X-Men, and Batman Begins. Here are my favorites.

  1. The Dark Knight
  2. Batman Begins
  3. X-Men 2
  4. Spider-Man 2
  5. Iron Man
  6. Watchmen
  7. Hellboy
  8. The Crow
  9. Sin City
  10. Superman Returns
  11. American Splendor
  12. Spider-Man
  13. X-Men
  14. Superman I (disregarding the ending)
  15. The Incredible Hulk
  16. V for Vendetta
  17. Fantastic Four
  18. The Flash (TV Pilot)
  19. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (animated)
  20. Batman
  21. Constantine
  22. Men in Black
  23. Ghost World
  24. Fantastic Four
  25. Batman Forever
  26. Batman: SubZero (animated)
  27. The Hulk
  28. Smallville (TV Pilot)
  29. Superman II (disregarding the ending)
  30. From Hell
  31. The Incredibles (not really based on a comic)

Wow - it's like a comics movie Rennaisance!
Here's some recent movies that were various degrees of great. And that has nothing at all to do with Jessica Alba, nor Katie Holmes, and certainly not Natalie Portman.

Batman Begins & The Dark Knight

Spectacular!

Could it be? Good Batman movies?
About time!

Katie Holmes in Batman Begins The Commish Morgan Freeman in Batman Begins 
some guy Liam Neeson in Batman Begins Alfred


Iron Man
Robert Downey Jr. made this movie amazing. Everyone else was good, too. A near-perfect translation of a character from a book to the screen.


Fantastic Four
These two movies weren't too bad, but not up to the caliber of Marvel's other recent movies. The Thing should have been a huge CGI monster. But Johnny was dead on, and Jessica Alba was Jessica Alba.

Jessica Alba = hot

Jessica Alba and other people


Sin City
Great noir movie based on Fank Miller's comics and driected by Miller, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. Again with the Jessica Alba.

Jessica Alba again

Not Jessica Alba


Another great Alan Moore story ...
V for Vendetta

Natalie Portman runs around a futurefied totalitarian Britain with a scary mask guy. Who would think she'd still be attractive bald? Oh yeah, everyone.

V Natalie

V for Vendetta
Click the picture to see a gorgeous poster for the movie.


What's another groovy comic movie?
Hellboy

Hellboy Abe Sapien Hellboy
Hellboy is an excellent comic and the series B.P.R.D., its spin-off, is also superb. Abe Sapien, above center, is one of my favorite characters.


Superman Returns!

And it was much better than I expected! Not perfect, of course. Weird decision to ape the old Supes movie as much as possible. I also didn't understand Lex Luthor's motivation and Lois was a little annoying. But overall, good.

Supes Wallpapers

Superman Returns Superman Returns

Superman Returns Superman Returns

Superman Returns Superman Returns


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Batman Begins