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!

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.

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.

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.

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

What's another groovy comic movie?
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

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