Comments on: Open Forum Friday: Are Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk the Best Comic Book Movies Ever?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:54:19 +0000

Graphic Novels are comic books. It’s just a name used to refer to collected editions. Sin City was serialized before it came out as a trade. I like to use the term graphic literature because it actually embodies how important comics really are. The Sin City movie used to the V/O too much. My list (in order of greatness) is:

1. Akira
2. Spider-man 2
3. A History of Violence
4. 300
5. Blade

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:14:45 +0000

1. Batman
2. Sin City
3. 300
4. Batman Begins
5. X-Men
6. Iron Man
7. Blade
8. Road to Perdition
9. The Mask
10. Hellboy

I like how quickly this forum started filling up. In the list I included graphic novels as well, because the movies that followed are too awesome. Hmm, no sequels on my list. Weird. I guess I don’t really like ‘em. You learn something new about yourself every day. Hopefully The Dark Knight will be on this list soon.
To answer your original question, Sean, Iron Man would definately be one of the greatest comic book movies ever, while The Incredible Hulk is not.
I wonder if people could choose to watch only Marvel or DC comic book character based movies, for the rest of their lives, which one the would choose.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:54:19 +0000

Road To Perdition.

Isn’t Mars Attacks based on a comic book?

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:52:22 +0000

The Crow… there’s another great one that keeps getting lost in the shuffle.

By: Dane

Dane — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:59:26 +0000

I’m a huge comic nerd and my favorites are as follows:

1. X2
2. Batman Begins
3. X-Men
4. Spider-Man 2
5. Iron Man
6. Batman
7. The Crow
8. Hellboy
9. Batman Returns
10. Incredible Hulk

Disagree if you will, but those are my most enjoyable Comic Book movies. I’m not counting graphic novels, that would look much different.

By: Swarez

Swarez — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:24:16 +0000

Batman Begins has a few nods to the Year One story line but other than that it’s not based on anything particular.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:40:58 +0000

Well I guess in my mind the distinction is not so much between comics and graphic novels, but between superhero movies and other comics. If you’re including all comics you could also throw Ghost World in there too, but in my opinion it’s kind of unfair to compare that to say, Iron Man or Spider-Man.

By: twilightfox008

twilightfox008 — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:55:48 +0000

im not positive on this but wasn’t batman begins based off of the graphic novel? I would say Iron Man hit the nail on the head with the comic book movies, with Batman Begins coming in a close second (assuming its not based on the graphic novel)

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:36:40 +0000

I see A History of Violence list here in the comments and I would also give that a vote. A brilliant movie.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:27:51 +0000

Seems like graphic novels are fair game now. If so then

1. Oldboy
2. Batman Begins
3. Akira
4. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
5. Spiderman

I liked Iron Man a lot but I need to wait and see if it can stand up over time. It’s too soon to look at it objectively.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:38:58 +0000

Batman Begins is at the top of my comic book movie list, followed closely by Sin City.

By: Primal

Primal — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:01:07 +0000

Not really set in stone, but the comic book movies that stand out for me are as follows…

1. Spiderman 2
2. A History of Violence
3. Danger Diabolik
4. Batman(1989)
5. Blade 2

Honorable Mentions – Sin City, Iron Man, Batman Begins