Marvel Comic Fans

Two Movies to watch for

Published on March 16, 2005 By foreverserenity In Entertainment

The Fantastic Four and Batman Begins are two new flicks coming this summer. I'm looking forward to them because I have always loved both these series. Especially the Fantastics! My favourite character is the Thing. Michael Chiklis will be playing that role in the movie.

Batman movies I think, always seems to get a bad rap. People never seem to like them. I know the comics are better, but putting these comics on screen is really good. Like Xmen and Superman, I always enjoy them.

The good thing is my kids and I have something in common when it comes to animation, comics and stuff like that. My son always says how cool it is (not bragging) that I love these things. I'm just a child at heart, what can I say...

Here's the website if you want to take a look at the trailers and info about the movies if you haven't seen them yet.
Link

Oh, and before I forget, Marvel.com and Wizard magazine has some really nice posters up, plus there's a vote going on about cover of the year for comic fans!

Comments (Page 2)

Rightwinger

on Mar 20, 2005

Did you ever notice, when someone was shooting at Superman, he would let the bullets bounce off him, but when the gun was empty, the criminal would throw the gun at Superman and he would dodge it?

Heh...yeah. Sometimes he would grab the gun and crush it, too. Then when he hit the bad guys, sometimes they'd fall into each other and knock each other out and stuff. It was like watching The Three Stooges.
I always liked the old show because it bad guys were always so "bad"...you know...."dis, dat, dese and does" , morons. It was easy to tell the criminals.
Reeves always faced bug-eyed monsters or gangland hoods, but no supervillains; I don't think Lex Luthor or The Brainiac were ever even mentioned.

I've never heard about the animated/live action one before; I'd like to find them somewhere. They'd be neat.

Thanks for the link.

foreverserenity

on Mar 22, 2005

foreverserenity, did you like "The Punisher"? I loved it; the DVD was released on my birthday, and my wife bought it for me. I watched it probably another six or eighttimes before I finally got tired of it.I thought Tom Jane really captured the character very well. I also liked how they used some scenes from "Punisher: War Zone" #1 (the "torture" of Mickey Duka) to show that Castle wasn't all psycho nutjob.And Travolta was really good, too; he's gotten very good at portraying over-the-top bad guys in the last ten years or so.I was glad they stayed true to the comics, rather than what they did when they mauled it with that Dolph Lundgren abomination back in what? 1990? No Skull! That was like taking the "S" from Superman or the Bat symbol from Batman. What were they thinking?

Not really. I didn't see the DVD. I know, Travolta is really good at playing bad guy roles. I loved him a lot in Face Off with Nicolas Cage. One of my all time favorite movies. I remember the Lundgren movie - he tried, but alas, not successful!

Did you ever notice, when someone was shooting at Superman, he would let the bullets bounce off him, but when the gun was empty, the criminal would throw the gun at Superman and he would dodge it?

Yep, this was always hilarious that he would do that! I always wondered, uh? If bullets can't kill him, a hit from the gun being thrown will? Har har, possibly it was just the writer's way of showing his "human" reaction to some things!

Thanks for the link to the Superman movie Icon!

I don't think Lex Luthor or The Brainiac were ever even mentioned.

I guess these two characters were developed afterwards in the more modern versions.

Icon and Rightwinger, I'm really impressed by how knowledgeable you guys are! Truly refreshing!

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