Weaver95: Rorschach's Weaver95's Journal. October 12th, 1985. Dog carcass in politics tab this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This thread is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!' And I'll look down, and whisper 'no.' But there will be cake for all.

That reminds me, I haven't seen Ghost World yet.

/off to Netflix...

List looks OK to me. What makes it FAIL, enigmaticmitter?

I don't have any real problem with this list.

am i the only one here who thinks silent hill belongs on that list?

I didn't see it. If Spiderman 3 or X-men 3 were there, I'd have seen it. I give the ones I haven't see a pass (either foreign or not mainstream) and the rest get at least a "good".

Sherjo311: am i the only one here who thinks silent hill belongs on that list?

Well, you might be the only one here who thinks video games are comic books.

I'm glad X3 wasn't on the list. I'm tired of defending it from the fanboy attacks.

icy_one: Sherjo311: am i the only one here who thinks silent hill belongs on that list?

Well, you might be the only one here who thinks video games are comic books.

ah. indeed, i am.

/coffee ain't working

It's already been said, but I'll be more specific. If they'd replaced X2 with The Dark Knight then the list would have been pretty much perfect.

Weisenheimer: I'm glad X3 wasn't on the list. I'm tired of defending it from the fanboy attacks.

You know what pisses me off the most about X3? The fact that you can clearly see the sections of the movie that David Hayter wrote in his original script and right when you think things are about to turn around it goes right down the CG fight scene crapper. You know everything was there for the movie to be good, you can see it, but it never happens.

Needs more Sin City, too.

I was expecting Spiderman 3 due to the FAIL tag.

peachpicker: Needs more Sin City, too.

^ That.

appaently saying tdk is too farking abstract for some people. The Dark Knight is not on this list, Therefore it is FAIL!!!

Get It?

Bonus: Watching it as we speak

The Dark Knight is not based on a comic book. Sure, its influenced by a few specific ones, but the storyline is new.

Crow?

Watchmen....easily one of the worst movies of 2009.....

T.rex: The Dark Knight is not based on a comic book. Sure, its influenced by a few specific ones, but the storyline is new.

FTFA:

Fidelity to source material is not really the criteria here.

Also:

This list is a work of opinion, not a mathematical proof; as such there is no wrong or right answer.

That second one's not to you, specifically, but more to the people who want to whine about TDK not being on there. Being someone who understands that different people like different things, myself, I can understand and appreciate this sentiment, while politely disagreeing with his opinion.

Of course, were the author and I to meet, there would be loud nerd fighting, while drinking Mountain Dew and eating Cheetos...

:-)

I think Sin City is better than 300. Other than that? Not much to gripe about.

Fish!: Crow?

Title of the actual article, not just the Fark headline:

THE TEN BEST COMIC BOOK MOVIES OF THE 21st CENTURY

T.rex: The Dark Knight is not based on a comic book. Sure, its influenced by a few specific ones, but the storyline is new.

by that right, spider-man shoudn't be on the list either...

Personal_spacecake: T.rex: The Dark Knight is not based on a comic book. Sure, its influenced by a few specific ones, but the storyline is new.

by that right, spider-man shoudn't be on the list either...

Or Hellboy II.

Thought it was a pretty solid list. I'd probably switch Hellboy 2 with The Dark Knight. Although Hellboy 2 was enjoyable, it felt like Del Toro had half the sets and costumes leftover from Pan's Labyrinth.

/Loves me some Ghostworld
//still think Thora Birch is hot

No Road to Perdition?

No History of Violence?

FeedTheCollapse: Swampthing in Korea: No History of Violence?

am I the only one not impressed with this film? It was okay, but by the time the credits rolled, it felt like a great, big "That's it?" film.

The supposed charms of "Terminator 2" and "Aliens" and "True Lies" have proven ever-elusive to me.

WhoIsWillo: No Persepolis

Oh yes, this too.


FeedTheCollapse: Swampthing in Korea: No History of Violence?

am I the only one not impressed with this film? It was okay, but by the time the credits rolled, it felt like a great, big "That's it?" film.

I didn't much care for it.

oooh. i quite enjoyed ichi. i'm not a comic book fan by any means but i liked 5/10 of those movies. i thought they were pretty good.

V for Vendetta was a great movie and great adaptation.

Sin City
A History of Violence
Batman Begins

FeedTheCollapse: Swampthing in Korea: No History of Violence?

am I the only one not impressed with this film? It was okay, but by the time the credits rolled, it felt like a great, big "That's it?" film.

If you haven't done so as of yet, read the source material.
Cronenberg and his screenwriter only adapted at most the first half of it faithfully. The film wildly diverges from the graphic novel after that point. I think that the graphic novel was better (although I understand why they didn't more faithfully adapt it [as there's no way that they could have done so and not receive an "X" rating for violence {the film added waaaay more sex/nudity than was ever in the source material}].

I still think it was Cronenberg's best film since "Naked Lunch" [and I'm a hardcore Cronenberg fanboi].

anelson41: V for Vendetta was a great movie and great adaptation.

Sin City
A History of Violence
Batman Begins

You goddamn well take that back.

The comic V for Vendetta was great because of the moral ambiguity and three dimensional characters. V was absolutely insane, the dictator was emotionally isolated, the only decent person was the cop working for the regime.

Whilst it is pretty obvious the government is racist and authoritarian, Alan Moore when to great lengths to make sure that the reader is uncertain that the decision to topple it, and the resulting chaos, was a good thing

The movie was an abortion. It cast V as the heroic freedom fighter waging a one-man war of social justice against a regime that was pretty much meant to portray the US and Bush.