Alendor
07-06-2005, 09:57 PM
The Last many many years Hollywood has been solely dominated by a string of more or less succesfull Marvel comic-adaptions. It rose with Blade around the fall of the Batman-franchise fell.
It is almost ironic that Batman is also the movie which will be the starting pistol for Marvel's greatest challenge in recent years. Mainly due to a string of flops that Marvel has suffered under....Elektra being the most outstanding flop of them all.
DC has ever since Batman died out been kind of away from the adaption market. It has tried for many many years....all those rumours of another Batman, Superman and even a Batman vs. Superman is now being fullfilled just when Marvel is starting to fail.
We can look at the coming shift in years with a DC-movie each year from this to 2007.
2005: Batman Begins vs. The Fantastic Four.
2006: Super-man Returns vs. X-men 3
2007: Wonder-woman vs. Spider-man 3
The only one Marvel is likely to win is 2007. But I will look at the one by one.
2005:
Sin City has won for most loyal adaption ever. It is hard not to be when the comic's creator has written the script and co-directed the movie. ;)
But this topic situates around the battle between DC and Marvel. So on one end we got Batman Begins with a cast like none other: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy, Rutger Hauer. It has just such a wonderful cast.... btw it is directed by Christopher Nolan which is another master-stroke for it.
The Opponent from Marvel is The Fantastic Four. I have not much faith in this one. It doesn't seem loyal to the comic. I don't find the jokes in the teaser and trailers funny. The cast isn't near as good as Batman's....actually none of them is equal to Morgan Freeman alone. We got Jessica Alba, Julian McMahon, Chris Evans and Lancelot(I can not spell his name right now but everybody here should have seen it :icon_wink )
Så this year's round goes to DC.
2006:
Finally(even so I don't really like Super-man) another Super-man movie is on the way but sadly it meant a betrayal from Bryan Singer, when he left X-men 3 for this movie. So on one hand we got here a highly anticipated version of the Man of Steel.
It's opponent is ironically X-men 3, which has gotten its cast back with some new faces Vinnie Jones, Kelsey Grammer, Maggie Grace. But last week it's second director left 9 weeks before shooting. Brett Ratner has replaced him. I have mixed feelings if this will end up being as good as the last two or being that ends the franchise. Nothing other than a miracle will make X-men 3 win over the Man of Steel.
2007:
DC's candidate is Wonder-woman directed and written by my man, Joss Whedon(Buffy, Angel, Firefly). Nothing beside this is known, because he will first start writing....even thinking about it when he is completely done with Serenity. But no matter what this is going to be goooood. :icon_popc
But I still doubt it will win over Spider-man 3. How do you beat one of the most succesful adaptions by Marvel? Other than if you somehow have gotten its director to quit it and join your side(Singer...anyone?)
pheeew......my first written topic....mostly because of a lack of movie topics.
This is of course just how I view, if you guys think anything differently please say so
It is almost ironic that Batman is also the movie which will be the starting pistol for Marvel's greatest challenge in recent years. Mainly due to a string of flops that Marvel has suffered under....Elektra being the most outstanding flop of them all.
DC has ever since Batman died out been kind of away from the adaption market. It has tried for many many years....all those rumours of another Batman, Superman and even a Batman vs. Superman is now being fullfilled just when Marvel is starting to fail.
We can look at the coming shift in years with a DC-movie each year from this to 2007.
2005: Batman Begins vs. The Fantastic Four.
2006: Super-man Returns vs. X-men 3
2007: Wonder-woman vs. Spider-man 3
The only one Marvel is likely to win is 2007. But I will look at the one by one.
2005:
Sin City has won for most loyal adaption ever. It is hard not to be when the comic's creator has written the script and co-directed the movie. ;)
But this topic situates around the battle between DC and Marvel. So on one end we got Batman Begins with a cast like none other: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy, Rutger Hauer. It has just such a wonderful cast.... btw it is directed by Christopher Nolan which is another master-stroke for it.
The Opponent from Marvel is The Fantastic Four. I have not much faith in this one. It doesn't seem loyal to the comic. I don't find the jokes in the teaser and trailers funny. The cast isn't near as good as Batman's....actually none of them is equal to Morgan Freeman alone. We got Jessica Alba, Julian McMahon, Chris Evans and Lancelot(I can not spell his name right now but everybody here should have seen it :icon_wink )
Så this year's round goes to DC.
2006:
Finally(even so I don't really like Super-man) another Super-man movie is on the way but sadly it meant a betrayal from Bryan Singer, when he left X-men 3 for this movie. So on one hand we got here a highly anticipated version of the Man of Steel.
It's opponent is ironically X-men 3, which has gotten its cast back with some new faces Vinnie Jones, Kelsey Grammer, Maggie Grace. But last week it's second director left 9 weeks before shooting. Brett Ratner has replaced him. I have mixed feelings if this will end up being as good as the last two or being that ends the franchise. Nothing other than a miracle will make X-men 3 win over the Man of Steel.
2007:
DC's candidate is Wonder-woman directed and written by my man, Joss Whedon(Buffy, Angel, Firefly). Nothing beside this is known, because he will first start writing....even thinking about it when he is completely done with Serenity. But no matter what this is going to be goooood. :icon_popc
But I still doubt it will win over Spider-man 3. How do you beat one of the most succesful adaptions by Marvel? Other than if you somehow have gotten its director to quit it and join your side(Singer...anyone?)
pheeew......my first written topic....mostly because of a lack of movie topics.
This is of course just how I view, if you guys think anything differently please say so