Comic Book Movies

You know, it has been nine years since X-Men came out and freakin blew my mind. I had always been a fan of them from the cartoons on Fox days. Soon after that movie ( which I thought did as good as I could hope for considering movie adaptations are usually crapola ) Spiderman made his debut on the big screen.

Wow. Everyone was blown away. Total awesomeness. It looked cool, kept the comic book tone (which I had no clue about, considering all I knew of him was the Fox cartoons) and was popular amongst everyone. The worst part about it was that it had Kirsten Dunst. Who is ugly.

Then came X2 and X3. Batman Begins. Superman Returns. Punisher and remake. Hulk and remake.

The biggest highlights of all these besides the movies of '08-which everyone is touting as the Year of the Comic- were Sin City and 300. They changed they way we watched and thought of comic movies. They expanded the potential.

Sin City changed the way everyone looked at how comics could be adapted. When they did 300 it confirmed it.

To tell the truth, after all the comic movie buzz that is why I got into comics. It has been a year already.

Really, though, the reason comic movies (meaning superhero) couldn't be made earlier is because the technology was lacking (skepticism notwithstanding). Superman was made as early as it was because the only special effects needed were to make ONE dude fly. That was reasonably attainable. Batman was next because of his popularity and because he was essentially just a guy with cool ass gadgets.

How in the hell were you going to make Hulk? I know he was in a TV show but-really- that shhh never would have flown in the movies.

Spiderman would have been stupid with 70s and 80s tech. X-men? A joke.

Once we got the technology though ... we started to make those movies.

Just look at the Watchman.

Once dubbed the 'unfilmable' , it has a release date of March sixth.

Can't. Wait.