Name a movie based on a comic book

[Orrex]

Not a comic book character, but a comic book. So that you can hold up an issue (or a series of issues) and say "the movie is based on this." And if it's a series of issues, they must be connected into a story-arc. That means that you can't say "Well, this is from Daredevil #10, this is from #181, and this is from #217).

Here are mine (none of them obscure):

Watchmen
300
Sin City

I read Ghost World many years ago but can't remember anything about it.

[rcrush]

1. A History of Violence.

[Orrex]

3. Never read that, but I wondered about it

Figures that Cronenberg would stick to the source.

[Bryan]

2. The Ice Storm

...based in part on Fantastic Four #141.

[Orrex]

4. Only a true geek would know that

[Lost in CT]

5. Road to Perdition... based on the same.

[Orrex]

17. Good suggestion

I think I saw that, but I can't quite remember.

I know that I never read it, though.

[RoyGBiv]

6. Heavy Metal ...

The individual stories in the movie were based on various issues.

[Orrex]

35. Never would have thought of that one. Good call!

John Candy's finest role, IIRC!

[Bryn]

7. V for Vendetta?

I think

[sakabatou]

14. Yep, based on a comic book.

[Orrex]

15. Oh duh

How'd I miss that one?!?

[bluesbassman]

8. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

[AllenVanAllen]

11. I wished it had been a better movie

This was such a great comic! The movie had decent production design, but it strayed far from Allen Moore's superb original stories.
A dead on movie version of TLOEG Vol. 2 would have been my preference. The League vs. The Martians, now would have been cool!

[ghostsofgiants]

9. Ghost World rules.

Though the movie combines elements of different story arcs in the book. Seymour, for example, is not in the book, but is apparently an amalgamation of a few characters.

[Orrex]

33. It was a surprisingly good film

Good performances throughout, and a great story.

[ghostsofgiants]

44. Definitely.

Zwigoff makes some enjoyable films.

[Rhythm]

10. The Crow

Faust
Swamp Thing

[Orrex]

24. Not sure about Swamp Thing

The film I saw differed pretty sharply from the Alan Moore story. Is it a direct adaptation from a story with which I'm not familiar?

[Mojambo]

12. From Hell. n/t

[sakabatou]

13. X-Men 1, 2 and 3

Full Metal Alchemist: the Movie
Hellboy
300

[Orrex]

16. I mentioned 300 in the OP

But I don't believe that the X-Men films were based on specific books. Correct me if I'm wrong, of course.

Couldn't say one way or the other about Full Metal Alchemist, though.

[sakabatou]

36. Fullmetal Alchemist isn't based on a specific book

But it still falls as canon in the storyline. And the X-Men films... well, they were based on books, just changed around (with X-3, it was the Dark Phoenix saga).

[Orrex]

38. I think that the drastic changes to the X-Men disqualify them as 'direct adaptations'

Doesn't make them bad films (except X3, which wasn't that great), but they're not straight adaptations, which is what I'm looking for here.

Straight adaptations with smallish alterations for the screen are fine, but large-scale changes are out of bounds. I don't recall Cyclops dying in issue 137 or anywhere around there. And didn't she commit suicide on the Moon? After blowing up a planet? I must've missed that part in the movie! :evilgrin:

[semillama]

18. Alien vs Predator?

AvP could have been a kick-ass movie if they had based the plot on the original AvP limited series put out by Dark Horse a couple decades ago. But I don't know if it counts since only the base concept was used.

I thought of several others, but I believe they fall more into the category of movies based on characters.

[Strong Atheist]

19. When the wind blows!

:evilgrin:

:rofl:

BTW, it was in the CHILDREN'S section of my college book store, which tells you a lot about my college...

[Ptah]

20. Men In Black

[Orrex]

23. How close an adaptation was it?

Was the film taken from a particular story, or was it cobbled together from MIB elements a la X-Men?

[Ptah]

26. According to Wikipedia,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_Black_(comic_book)

The Men in Black was a comic book created and written by Lowell Cunningham,
illustrated by Sandy Carruthers, and published by Aircel Comics. Aircel would
later be bought out by Malibu Comics, which itself was bought out by
Marvel Comics. Three issues were published in 1990, with another three the following year.


It was adapted into a film which resulted in a sequel and various spin-offs,
as well as a number of tie-in one-shot comics from Marvel.



<snip>
They inspired the 1997 film Men in Black and its sequel and spin-offs,
including a soundtrack with an award-winning song, the TV show Men in Black:
The Series, a novelization of each film, video games, and an amusement park ride.


A major difference in the film version is that the secret organization
was created only to police and monitor extraterrestrial activity on Earth
and there is no mention of any other paranormal element. The organisation
isn't portrayed as violent, as in the comic, instead using memory erasers
rather than murder to suppress witness. They don't have an insane secret
purpose, they're only devoted to their mission.

[Orrex]

32. That doesn't quite help me, though

Per the OP, I'm looking for films adapted specifically from comic books, rather than simply featuring the characters, style, and setting of a comic. That's why Watchmen is on the list but Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are not.

Sounds like the MIB film was adapted from the comic series as a whole, but not from a particular story or story arc.

[Strong Atheist]

21. Teenage Mutant Ninga Turtles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_mutant_ninga_turtles

[Strong Atheist]

22. Speed racer, and for that matter, probably thousands of anime shtuff...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_racer

[geardaddy]

25. 30 Days of Night

Though I suppose it's really a graphic novel, not a comic book.

[Orrex]

29. Close enough for me

Is it a faithful adaptation?

[geardaddy]

31. Yeah, it's pretty good.

[badgerpup]

27. Umm...how about one based on a video game?

Mortal Kombat

I went and saw that one when it came to the $1 theater...well worth it. :P

But then, I like Gerard Depardieu in just about anything...:loveya:


As a freshly-minted biology minor, I found "Goro, half dragon, half human, Prince of Pain" disturbing for a number of reasons...

"Hope to gods the dragon was the mother on that cross...

"You'd think he'd need at least a vestigial dragon's tail for balance, you know?
Just he's got a really high center of gravity for such a bad-ass fighter, is what I'm on about..."

"How many hearts does this guy have? I mean, LOOK at the size of him, and it's mostly torso (and 4 arms)...that takes a LOT more blood volume and demand on the circulatory system than just somebody who's big and all hulked out..."


At this point my friend told me to STFU and just enjoy the show.

I'm fun at movies...:crazy:

[Orrex]

28. I didn't realize that Depardieu was in that

Christopher Lambert, sure, but Depardieu? I must have missed him!

[badgerpup]

43. Oops...my bad...

:blush:

I meant Christopher Lambert...
or whoever was the drop-dead gorgeous, extremely talented actor who seemed really outta place in such a silly-ass movie guy who played Raiden.

They turned him into one of the 'Good Guys' for the movie.

I rather like Christopher Lambert too...;)

[arcadian]

30. Backdoor Debutantes III

[Orrex]

34. That wasn't so much a comic book as a biography, though

[NewJeffCT]

37. GI Joe - the Rise of Cobra

the upcoming movie.

[Orrex]

39. Which comic is that based on?

Come on--let's have volume- and issue-numbers!

[NewJeffCT]

41. The GI Joe comic book series from the 80s

no specific issue.

[Orrex]

42. Cool, but in the OP I was looking for specific adaptations

Batman Begins is based on a whole bunch of stuff from the various Batman canons, but no specific story or arc. That's the kind of thing I was looking for.


Thanks, though!

[Noodleboy13]

40. Constantine borrowed heavily from story arcs in Hellblazer.

And I'm still angry. John Constantine is blond, British and smart. Keanu Reeves is none of those things. Worst Casting Ever.




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Noodleboy