Comic Book Adaptations to Film/TV

[LaserMoose]

I thought it would make more sense to separate this topic from the general comic books thread, given the sheer number of adaptations out there. Apologies if this should be in the Movie/TV category. I wasn't sure which one to pick, as the topic is a mix of both.

What is your opinion of the various Cinematic Universes? Feel free to discuss any comic book movie/TV adaptations here.

To start, I haven't watched any new MCU movies since Endgame and Spiderverse 2 released. As for DC, I haven't paid much attention to their new releases either, but I did get around to checking out the Nolan Batman movies earlier this year! I enjoyed them, but I still have a soft spot for Tim Burton's '89 adaptation compared to the rest.

 

[RiskyAsh]

Apologies in advance, time to talk about nonsense.

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Here's one I watched the other day, @Antilocal123 's favorite movie. It looks cheap, it sounds cheaper, the acting is basically "backyard wrestling video", and the plot is nonsense. There's only two interesting things to say about it:

One, they gaslight you into thinking there might be somewhat watchable action, by getting two stuntmen who actually know what they're doing to slug it out briefly at the beginning. These guys don't appear for the rest of the movie, but went on to have real careers doing this stuff. (One of them, Dennis Lafond, did stunts for Scott Pilgrim the same year, and then the X-Men series).

Two, I went the whole film without noticing that the dork on the bottom left in the above picture is meant to be The Black Terror, and that these were all licensed characters from Nedor Comics, a popular publisher from the 40's that went under with the rest of the "Golden Age" of comics.

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I don't know who, if anyone, owns the rights to these; maybe that's how this movie got made in the first place. Alan Moore brought most of them back for a fake crossover story in his Tom Strong series, and Terror's been in use intermittently since then, particularly in an Alex Ross book titled Project Superpowers.

The Scarab is in there too, that's him and Terror opposite each other on the left and right.​

 

[Yousef]

I will kill whoever made the killing joke movie haha. Bad adaptation of a bad comic is such an extreme level of bad haha.