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GV10 [Results] Best Comic Book Movie: Check Page 3 for results!
DJ Eebs
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Our next category is Best Comic Book Movie.
This one's pretty simple: is the movie inspired by comic books? Did it come out after April 2005? Nominate it here!
Rules
1) Nominate as many shows as you want! There's no limit
2) If you see one of your favorites has already been nominated, feel free to second or third or fourth that nomination!
3) Please talk about why you think your favorite movies deserve to be in this poll. Simply posting a movie title won't disqualify your nomination, but...
4) ...this thread is also for you to state your case for your favorite movie! I won't be making a seperate voting thread, so here's where you make your case
5) And above all: keep it civil. This is supposed to be fun. I don't want to see people slagging on each other or their choices, try and keep it positive, alright?
Alright, and nominations are open...NOW
Put your nominations in BOLD TEXT. You don't need to all caps them, though
This one's pretty simple: is the movie inspired by comic books? Did it come out after April 2005? Nominate it here!
Rules
1) Nominate as many shows as you want! There's no limit
2) If you see one of your favorites has already been nominated, feel free to second or third or fourth that nomination!
3) Please talk about why you think your favorite movies deserve to be in this poll. Simply posting a movie title won't disqualify your nomination, but...
4) ...this thread is also for you to state your case for your favorite movie! I won't be making a seperate voting thread, so here's where you make your case
5) And above all: keep it civil. This is supposed to be fun. I don't want to see people slagging on each other or their choices, try and keep it positive, alright?
Alright, and nominations are open...NOW
Put your nominations in BOLD TEXT. You don't need to all caps them, though
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I could sit here and talk about how much I love this movie all day, but instead I'm just going to post two youtube videos that don't even really sum up all the reasons I love this movie so much, but they're fucking great and you should watch them anyways.
Because it's a great fucking song and everything just fucking works
Because this is fucking awesome and I shouldn't have to explain why???
There are a ton of great comic book movies that are going to get nominated in this category. I'll probably toss a few out there myself. But this is my favorite by a pretty significant margin and I could spend probably the rest of the day talking about it, so I'm just going to stop here so I don't.
Choose Your Own Chat 1 Choose Your Own Chat 2 Choose Your Own Chat 3
Also in the ring is Guardians of the Galaxy for successfully selling an (outside comic bookery) untested franchise and proving that the right choice of music can make you a tone setter like nobody's business.
Also I'm throwing Watchmen a bone for its stellar title sequence, great portrayals of Rorschach and Comedian and being irrationally fond of the Thermodynamic Miracles speech.
I probably wouldn't nominate it anyway since it's not based on a comic, but just wondering
EDIT: As much as I love the Lego Movie, in fact it trumps all my 2014 nominees, my gut is not to allow it since its primary plot is outside comics entirely.
So instead I'll second Guardians of the Galaxy.
Now for me, since I kept up with the news and what not, I went in already thinking it was going to be good and having some idea of what tone it was going for. My friends? No fucking clue. They just knew it was the new Marvel movie starring the guy from Parks and Rec, and mainly going on that.
Movie opens with a pretty touching scene, definately harking to 80's films but it's the scene that follows that sold everyone on the character of Quill and the movie itself.
Easily one of the most confident, fun and perfect scene in ANY movie.
The rest of the movie is hilarious, fun and touching, making people care about a CGI Racoon and mono syllabic Tree.
Edit: Hmm, beat to the punch. Oh! I know! Hellboy was in 2004, but Hellboy 2: The Golden Army was in 2008, and absolutely deserves a nomination, for effects alone!
An autobiographical coming of age story during the Iranian Revolution, it's a beautiful, honest, funny and fascinating story that keeps the visual style of the graphic novel. It manages to be both heart-breaking and joyful, which is no small feat
PSN- AHermano
And I loved The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec so I'll add that one as well.
Del Toro! Ron Perlman! Slick fun blockbuster movie that's absolutely gorgeous to look at, it's great!
PSN- AHermano
At first I thought "Don't you mean Amazing Spider-Man 2?", then "Why would it be a problem to nominate that?", then "Why would you nominate that?" :P
It's my unofficial fourth movie in the Indiana Jones trilogy.
Scott Pilgrim VS The World - its just a newar perfect adaption and super enjoyable. And you know, Chris Evans AND Brandon Routh!
History of Violence - So glad this snuck in because at a time where comic movies were starting to show how you can do a serious comic movie, this one snuck in and solidified the stance much more strongly. And the entire story, acting and choreography were pretty amazing in its own right.
DREDD - This movie is just ... its one of my top 10 easy, maybe top 5. It retroactively makes me dislike Stallone's Judge Dredd.
Losers - I actually read the comic before i even heard there was a movie, and like most great adaptions it kept the heart of the Losers comic. Also Chris Evans!
I may add more later.
Iron Man
Iron Man 3
The Avengers
Captain America
Captain America 2
Guardians of the Galaxy
And now for my pitch
Batman: The Dark Knight Rises - I feel like everyone points to The Dark Knight as the best of the trilogy, due to Heath Ledger's performance, but I have to say that I probably love the third movie more than any other Batman movie that's been made. It is way more positive than the others, it feels the most like an actual comic book movie, and it deals with Bruce Wayne as Batman that I really enjoy. I love the way they introduce the idea of Legacy into the movie, which is a big deal for DC as a company, and I think the narrative arcs for the different characters are great. The film focuses on the question of why Bruce is Batman, and it addresses that question without moving too grim or too light. It doesn't require Bruce to always be Batman, but it doesn't make his efforts all in vain or entirely self-harming. It just asks how much a person can do, how they can let go, how they can rise to adversity. It's got a great villain, some great fight sequences, and it even literally ends with a seeming nod to Batman '66, which might be unintentional but is still fantastic.
In a broader context, I think it's impossible to overstate the importance of this movie. If X-Men and Spider-Man opened the door for modern comic book movies, Iron Man cooked dinner, set the table, put on some music, and then wrote "Thank You" cards afterwards. If Iron Man wasn't as good as it was, it wouldn't have been successful; if it weren't as successful as it was, I'm not sure that we'd have the unprecedented Marvel Cinematic Universe that we now have.
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
I need to reread and watch Ghost World. But I remember finding it to be an example of where the film surpassed the source material.
Anyway, I'm gonna second Dredd, for
1) Having a cool structure,
2) Having female characters who stood on their own and weren't just accessories to dudes,
3) Being a good hardcore action movie,
4) Being the only movie I've ever seen that actually made good use of 3D
Extra credit goes to Karl Urban for being willing to wear a helmet for the entire duration of the movie, and for being able to do an impressive amount of acting with just the lower half of his face.
For some reason I immediately thought when this was announced as a 10-year window for all of these polls, "oh, good, Batman Begins will make the cut for best movie"
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Avengers
Kingsman: The Secret Service
X-men: Days of Future Past
The Wolverine
Dredd
I think Guardians of the Galaxy is by far the best comic book movie. It's just so much fun and the balls it must have took for someone at Marvel to pitch that to the studio... "So we have this talking Racoon and a tree that only says his own name...."
I mean I understand all the ways in which it's a bad movie, and I understand that it has as much to do with the LXG comic as this pad of sticky-notes in front of me, but I still unironically enjoyed it.
(Would neeever nominate it for this, though.)
I'm also going to take the time to second Iron Man, for being the start of the golden age we're still in, and the start of my interest in Marvel being more than just a casual one.
Road to Perdition - 2002
I looked both of those up a few days ago to make sure cause they both deserve to be here if they were eliglible.
Basically we need to nominate as many Chris Evans movies as possible.
It's interesting that it's the movie that had the most to lose and the most riding on it, but also felt like the most freed up movie too. Iron Man's a B-lister in the Marvel Universe (let's not look at it through today's lens, all the Avengers were), there's nothing to expect, RDJ had ridiculous insurance premiums because he's constantly fallen off the wagon so of course give him the ridiculous contract that will in no one ever make him 50 million dollars, yet it still was awesome and fun and holds up well.
Dredd is just so good and violent and it's amazing how well just keeping the helmet on all the time makes me appreciate it more. It worked with its budget really well and told a good story in the face of that.
I will also be back to write up a plea for folks to actually watch it before casting a vote.
I think y'all will take care of the rest.
Dredd. Such a great action movie with brutal violence and strong female characters. I also love how they kept Dredd's helmet on the entire film, since normally Hollywood like to unmask the lead character every chance they get.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier. A great spy thriller starring Captain America with great action and a great.
Iron Man. This movie is the reason we even have the MCU. A fun, great superhero movie with a great cast and also pretty much revived Robert Downey Jr's career.
Iron Man 3. This movie went full comic book science with the Iron Man armor, meaning now he can do so many amazing things like catch a group of people in midair, command a legion of suits at the same time and Gizmo Duck the suiting up for future armor with the introduction of technology from the MK42. It was also a compelling story of Tony overcoming his PTDS, gave us a twist NOONE saw coming, and gave a big fuck you to the movies where child characters weasel their way into the main plot.
Guardians of the Galaxy. Another fun movie with a great soundtrack and visuals. This movie made me give a damn about a talking raccoon and a giant plant monster.
The Dark Knight. A great crime story featuring the goddamn Batman. WHO CAN TURN HIS HEAD NOW. The movie also has some pretty good action sequences and one of the greatest Joker performances ever.
Losers. A better A-team movie than the A-team movie. A damn shame that it didn't get a sequel. Also starred Chis Evan as the TF2 Scout :P
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