Tag: comic book adaptations
Top Comic Book Adaptations of All Time - Complete 35-part List & Closing Thoughts
We’ve done it! We have identified the greatest live-action comic book or graphic novels adaptations of all time! Except maybe not yet. Naturally, before I could finish the list a few more adaptations were released,...
Top Comic Book Adaptations: No. 1 - Daredevil
When I was in high school, they showed me Citizen Kane and told me it was the greatest movie ever made because “every single shot was a purposeful decision.” I never quite got Orson Welles’...
Top Comic Book Adaptations: No. 2 - The Dark Knight
There are two eras in comic book film history; before The Dark Knight and after it. Fair or not, Chris Nolan’s 2008 masterpiece was the first graphic novel adaptation to breakthrough to the mainstream not...
Top Comic Book Adaptations: No. 3 - V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta is more than a movie - it is a comment. It is also the most important comic book movie ever made. Few films of any genre can claim to have made such...
Top Comic Book Adaptations: No. 4 - The Flash
I’ve never been so happy to be wrong as I was with The Flash . I’m still paying the price for bailing early on Arrow because I was turned off by the melodrama. I had...
Review 'The Walking Dead' S6 E11
The Walking Dead continued its trend of blessing us with fantastic television each and every week. There really aren't a lot of things more consistently great than this show, except maybe Steph Curry's jump shot....
Top Comic Book Adaptations: No. 5 - Sin City
It took three visionary geniuses to create the masterpiece that is Sin City. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino are well known for their unique stylings in the film world, but the inclusion of the writer...
Top Comic Book Adaptations: No. 6 - The Crow
Long before DeadpooI was forcing audiences to re-think who comic book movies can be for, Alex Proyas brought us the neo-noir, R-rated adaptation of James O’Barr’s graphic novel, The Crow. Eric Draven’s tragic tale of...
Top Comic Book Adaptations: No. 7 - Agent Carter
When Marvel Studios made the brilliant decision to cast Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury way back in 2008 for Iron Man , they painted themselves into a difficult corner despite how well he has...
Top Comic Book Adaptations: No. 8 - X-Men: Days of Future Past
X-Men: Days of Future Past is decidedly and unabashedly a comic book movie. That might seem obvious given the content of this list, but if you’ve been following along, you’ve noticed a common theme that...