Yes, I've missed loads off (including manga adaptations, as I'd have to go to 10 polls or more!).
I tried to get all the, apparently, better ones...plus a couple of shite ones.

Choose THREE and feel free to tell me what a cunt I am for leaving __________ off the list.

ACHTUNG!!!! You have to vote for 5!!! It won't let you vote for 3 (this is good)

I voted:

Blade
Ghost World
A History of Violence
Spider-Man
V For Vendetta.

And my personal favourite:



Oops, more tripe.... :P

Well, you know, too many to list, and I'm just about to pop out, so best just mention one old one - Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41, and one new one - Detroit Fucking Metal City Yeah!



Watch the trailer here (with english subtitles).

That's the problem with manga adaptations, there's just so many of them.
I was thinking of doing a separate one but could it even be whittled down to 40 options?

Superman The Movie. For me this is still the finest comic book/superhero adaptation there is. The way it presents its story, the nobility of Christpher Reeves' performance and the real chemistry between all the characters, while still retaining a truly epic scale. I love II as well but it's a shame they replaced Richard Donner with Richard Lester who then felt that he had to maul some very unfunny shtick all over a script that already had some nice comedic moments in it anyway. It's a pity Superman Returns was so flat, one thing that was definitely wrong with it was the astoundingly bland characterisation of Lois Lane, dull actress, dull lines, not a patch on the sparky charisma Margot Kidder brought to the role.

Batman Begins/The Dark Knight. I don't think either of these films are perfect by any stretch but outside of watching the sixties show when I was a kid I think it's the first time I've ever really enjoyed Batman.

Iron Man. I saw this last year and thought it was great - I was suprised because I'm fairly unconvinced by a lot of the Marvel films. I liked The Incredible Hulk too.

Not seen Watchmen yet, but Ghostworld is one of my favourite films.

American Splendor is one of my most favouritist films.

Dredd is quite clearly the worst adaptation here if not simply one of the worst films ever made. I was OUTRAGED I TELL YOU.

You could put together a good poll of the ones that people might know. Quite a few get released over here - Death Note 2 was on Film 4 last night, and 20th Century Boys had a brief cinema release last month, for example. Then there's ones like Lady Snowblood and the Lone Wolf and Cub series that some might not know are comic book adaptations, but, well, they are, and they're popular over here relatively speaking.

So, yes, there's a poll in there somewhere :)

:banghead: I voted for 3 without problems and only noticed this advice afterwards.

American Splendor
History of Violence (didn't know this was a comic adaption)
Sin City

Never read any of the connected comics, though. Just with "real" books the assessment considerably depends whether you know the original or not.

Nombers 4 and 5 would have been one of the Batman films (either Tim Burton's first or Batman Begins) and Ghost World.

American Splendor, Ghost World and V for Vendetta are the only ones of these I've seen. I liked American Splendor but subsequently read some of the comics which I found far more interesting and affecting than the film. Liked Ghost World too but have never read the comic. V for Vendetta had a lot going for it but I thought it was compromised by the attempts to make it modern and "post 9/11" and the ridiculous romantic element.

Saw Persepolis too which I thought was very poor.

Although I never read the comic, I thought Barb Wire was an excellent comic-book film, that starred a real-life comic book character in the form of Pamela Anderson- based on Casablanca y'know. People may chortle, but she was perfect for it.

One I'm looking forward to is Fujoshi Kanojo. Kanojo means girlfriend, but fujoshi is harder to translate. It's written with the kanji for "rotten" and "woman" and is a derogatory term used to describe women who are into yaoi, shonen ai or boys love - basically any anime or manga featuring boy on boy action.

Anyway, it's seen from the man's point of view, and is about his reactions to his girlfriends's "interests" and how his initial bemusement turns into something else. In the manga there's a great scene where his girlfriend proposes a threesome. Our hero can't believe his luck until he realises his girlfriend wants him to invite one of his friends over for a bit of Bro-mance. Very cute and fluffy from the sounds of it. It's out later this year.

I didn't realise that girls who were into yaoi/shonen ai were seen in a negative light.
Some yaoi/shonen ai is great.

Fujoshi Kanojo does sound good. :D

Oh, it's Ok if you are at age where you are at high school, or even university, it's just when you are old enough to be in the workplace where such things seem weird - the worse thing you can do is draw attention to yourself because it separates you from the group: "The nail that stands up must be hammered down". I didn't say, but the couple meet in an office, and he thinks she's perfectly normal, but that's only the outward image she portrays...

Another manga adaptation that people will know is Oldboy.

That happened in Seinfeld. (George, of course.) Not that it's ripped off or anything (actually, I think it more than likely isn't); just saying.

I tried to vote for A History of Violence, but couldn't -- perhaps the site is demanding three choices? I can't pick two others though -- sorry, but in the words of Cedric the Entertainer, "I'm a grown-ass man." :devil:

Edit: I guess the 1966 Batman is an acceptable choice too.

Every social situation or phenomenon worthy of discussion happened on Seinfeld.

Only watched about 10 on that list.

Barbarella, the first Batman movie, V, which i saw at the cinema, and Sin City which was on TV a few weeks ago, the best for me.

a lot of retreads. about time hollywood moved on.

they completely screwed the end of v for vendetta. that was one which was based on an actual series of books rather than taking the character and dropping them into a movie. spoilt it for me, because i have to moan on like a internet nerd about how it's been ruined. strewth, there i go again.

ghostrider was okay for a comic book adaptation.

my favourite comic book hero, dr strange is in production hell, long may he reign.

*bump*

I've since seen Spider-Man 3 and it's one of the worst on the list. :(
And The Dark Knight is pretty dire, I thought.
I'm thinking of watching the unreleased Roger Corman adaptation of The Fantastic Four...

I was thinking of doing a poll for this, but I'll probably miss loads out. :(

After a comic book adaptation marathon, here are my findings:

30 Days of Night - not a bad film, but it could have been so much better I thought. Pretty scary, though. Well made.

Fantastic Four (the 2005 one) - Excellent! I'd read nothing but bad reviews of this and wasn't expecting much at all, but it's a great film, I thought. I think the reason virtually no one liked it is because of its broad comedy but it's extremely well-done (which is no mean feat). It's also unlike most other comic adaptations of recent years in that it's so light and isn't as (relatively) deep as films like Spider-Man or Batman are. It's probably miscast, but you soon forget that and the bloke who plays The Thing -- in costume, I mean, not the dude out of The Shield who plays Ben Grimm -- or maybe he plays him in costume too -- anyway, he's great. A great film.

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer - even better than the first.

Hulk - Another film that got panned on release. Most people were, perhaps understandably, expecting an action film about The Incredible Hulk, but instead they got a long (extremely well-made) film about Freudian impulses and patriarchal rage. I thought it was great. There's still quite a bit of action in it, innit?

Iron Man - AWESOME!

I'm watching the Ed Norton (boo!) Hulk tonight...

Blade (1998)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Sin City (2005)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Superman (1978)
V For Vendetta (2005)
X-Men series (2000/03/06)

Off the list, those are best. By far the best is Spider-Man 2 which is just perfect, very moving, has a great story with strong characters and a point and great action scenes. Faultless.

Blade II is better than Blade imo, just because of the director and Ron Pearlman.

Hellboy II is also better than Hellboy I.

Sin City is great for what it is and was a breathe of fresh air. Be warned though, The Spirit is one of the worst films I have seen. Awful.

V For Vendetta was good but a shadow of the comic.

You've forgotton 'Wanted' BK which deserves a mention.

I'd never heard of it before. It's got James McAvoy in :wub: but also Angelina Jolie :(

The comic was great (written by the very good Mark Millar), but it got optioned for a film really quickly. I do like James McAvoy a lot as well, and he does an American accent which is great, but it's an enjoyable action film which stays pretty true to the source material. The opening scenes are about how boring and soul destroying his job and life are, which are quite funny.

Barbarella!