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Originally posted by glamorilla:
The first Batman movie was brilliant. It's only comics-to-screen flaw was making a young Jack "Joker" Napier the Waynes murderer. Outside of that it did a perfect job of capturing the magic of Batman.
eh, i didnt mind that part so much.
the part i hated was all the bat-murder. its sorta a huge staple of the character to not have him kill, and burtons batman killed, maimed, etc... no good.
other than that, tho... i did really love the first movie. one of my all-time favs.
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I suggest picking up a copy of Danny elfman's "Music for a darkened Theater" which not only has the music to Batman but beetlejuice,Pee wee's Big adventure and lots of other stuff...
got it and love it (actually, i have version 1 and 2... and love'em both!)
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Unbreakable was awesome...completely unexpected
good call.
i always forget this when discussing "comic book" movies, as its not really based on a comic book of any sort, like traditional comic book movies are. and... actually, even tho im a huge comic fan, even i think that adding it to the "comic book movie" genre sorta cheapens the film -- like its too good to get that label, or something (way to go, dcmb moderator!)
i loved the first superman movie, too. it will always have a special place in my heart or soul or whatever, as i remember watching it as a kid in jammies, gettin all happy at the superman-ish parts.
the second superman movie still, to this day, bothers me, when supes gives up his powers and gets beat up. i cant even look at the screen when it happens, i get so mad.
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Originally posted by THE Franta:
I enjoyed the X-men a pretty decent take on the team.
i liked x-men, too. i thought it was really good!
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Originally posted by Disco Steve:
I thought The Shadow was ok... as well as Dick Tracy
while i thought the shadow was lame... i REALLY enjoyed dick tracy! i thought it was a wonderfully done production, bringing the comic to life, in a much more "literal" translation than any movie before or since, i think! the big sets, the 4-colored everything... beautifully done.
unfortunately, i dont think it did ANY thing for the comics (in the 10+ years since its been released, i havent seen a single dick tracy comic).
batman 3 and 4 (even 2), and the later supermen (especially 4)... you can tell that there's simply so much commercialistic value applied. i fear the same will happen with the later x-men and matrix movies.
sometimes, i think the best way to treat a series is to NOT make it a series, and leave it well enough alone.
batman 4, i think, was a great example of something released, where nearly EVERYone could see it was done for commercial exploitation. toys were released of the movie weeks before the movie came out... thats sad.
when i was working daily in the DC offices a few years back, and there were major (even more than now) rumors of another superman film... it was so depressing to hear the discussion.
bottom line, the entire film was being driven by sponsorship. (i forget the company... coke? mcdonalds?). the company wanted to have polar bear tie-ins (which is why im thining coke) because that is something they were going to use for their products. so, DC wrote a scirpt where supes lost his powers, somehow got to the arctic, and was forced to fight a polar bear. ... all in order to push the product that tied into the polar bear (polar bear shoes, blankets, hats, dolls, etc).
...sad.
