Its been a while, I know. But I'm back!
This time I will be ranting about how this new comic book movie craze is both a blessing.... and a curse. How I am happy to be able to finally satiate my inner nerd with comic book movies (that aren't animated). Sadly though, my inner nerd often RAGES at what they've done to the character.
The worst offenders are the X-Men movies. The pure amount of inconsistencies between these movies is just plain ridiculous. Although, if you remove X-Men origins: wolverine, then it gets slightly better. How the newly planned "days of future past" will fit in, has yet to be seen. I must admit, I was rather surprised by several of the easter eggs in these movie, the chief of which was the reference in X-Men 3 to the original X-Men (this is actually not referring to the line-up in X-Men 1).
Next you have those films that absolutely destroy the origin of the character. Such as Hulk. It was a FREAKING BOMB! not some medical research where he decides to test on himself. The fact that they changed the actor each movie didn't help. Also, look at the 'Amazing' Spiderman (the new one). There they tried to avoid stepping on anyones toes by changing the events before his uncle's death.
But lets not forget those movies that changed a character to suit them. I mean where was Spiderman's sense of humor (I refer to the first trilogy this time)? Why was Bucky Barnes not a young teen? And what the heck was with Parallax being a cloud?!
Luckily for us though, not all movies are bad. The latest Batman trilogy was amazing (bar its ending), Thor was full of lovely easter eggs, they nailed Iron Man. The Avengers was well worth watching several times and has made me believe in superhero movies again.
So let me end off with a list of Comic books that have had movies made of them over the years.
Superman (on its 2nd reboot)
Batman (1 reboot)
Iron Man
Avengers
Hulk (1 reboot/sequel)
Green lantern
Captain America
Flash
Wonder Woman
The Watchmen
Green Hornet
X-Men (1 reboot/sequel)
Fantastic four
Dare-devil
Wolverine
Man-Thing
Tank girl
Kick-ass
Flash Gordon
GI Joe
Ghost rider
Red Sonja
Conan
Blade
Punisher
Priest
The Shadow
Hell Boy
He-Man
Catwoman
V for Vendetta
Spawn
Jonah Hex
John Carter
Jonah Hex
Judge Dredd
