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• 12Mar 08

  6 Best Comic to Film Movies. #2

  300 - 2006
  
  The second of Frank Miller's movies to make the list, and the seond graphic novel. 300 follows the story of King Leonidas I, a Spartan king who, when faced with the overwhelming numbers of Xerxes 1.2 million man army and Sparta's reluctance to commit to a war during their holiday, led 300 men north to a mountain pass at Thermopylae and inflicted twenty to thirty thousand casualties on Xerxes inexperienced soldiers. Remembered as one of teh most heroic last stands in history, Leonidasheld out for three days before being betrayed by a Greek named Ephialties, who led Xerxes to a path that could encircle the Spartans.
  
  While it doesn't have much in terms of dialogue, it features a plethora of one liners that have been exhausted on internet forums. Leonidas can be credited with most of these screamed lines, but a few others, including definite badass and probable psycopath Stelios,(Based on a real Spartan present at the battle) who is excited at a chance to fight in the shade perhaps a little too much.(You are wearing next to nothing man, it can't be that hot) David Wenham, as Dilios the sole surviving Spartan, provides the only lines that resemble actual dialogue as he narrates the tale. If it wasn't for this 300 would certainly be the greatest comic to film, since it boasts the most spectacular battle scenes of any swords and sandal flick ever made. If you saw this at the theatres like I did, you probably wlaked out with the urge to impale something with a six foot spear, throw your shield into its chest and slice it to bits with your sword for good measure; and if you're like me and currently not in prison, you found the will power to restrain yourself, or at least not get caught.
  
  
  
  "The enemy outnumber us a paltry three to one, good odds for any Greek. This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny and usher in a world brighter than anything we can imagine."
  • Posted Mar 12, 2008 6:14 pm PT
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• 12Mar 08

  6 Best Comic to Film Movies. #3

  Sin City - 2005
  
  Technically a graphic novel, but a comic movie all the same. Sin City used a unique visual style to tell the grittiest story brought to cinema by comics ever. Following the stories of three main characters, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, and Clive Owen, Sin City takes you through a night of chaos as the bad guys and the slightly better bad guys who sided with the strippers face off in intense gunbattles and hand to hand fighting.
  
  It should be credited with making Jessica Alba's career, since she went from a hot actress some people knew, to the single most revered woman in the country. So note to other aspiring actresses, be a stripper it pays off in the end. Bruce Willis is the true central character (Even though Rourke and Owen are more entertaining in my opinion, I'm not gonna ruin their stories by even thalking about them) as he hunts down a pedophile from his past, and protects Alba from him at the same time. Over a couple hours of twists and revelations you will see there is more to Sin City than meets the eye, and it is a must for anyone who can stomach a violent movie.
  
  
  
  "I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad."
  • Posted Mar 12, 2008 5:54 pm PT
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• 12Mar 08

  6 Best Comic to Film Movies. #4

  V for Vendetta - 2005
  
  V is one of my favorite comic movies for many reasons. While it doesn't share the same widespread publicity as Batman, Superman, or Spiderman it has a lot of things most films having to do with its more publisized counterparts lack. Some people don't even know it was bsaed of comics, but the dysotopian action thriller has the advantages of good acting, a good story, and dialogue. No matter what a movies point is, for it to be truly good it has to have dialogue, and while certain montages of scenes featuring nerdy emo kids strolling down the street making a genuine fool of themselves manages to work for some films, other ones find it more beneficial to actually have a point.
  
  V a futuristic burn victim and former lab rat that gains superhuman agility from his imprisonment, strives for anarchy and upheaval in a grim view of the future. The U.S. torn apart by war and disease is no more, the world's governments have dissolved and only a tyrannical regime quarantined in a small part of modern day Britain. An extremely lethal disease wipes out hundreds of thousands of people in England alone in a few short months, allowing a facist regime to gain support and take over the UK's once democratic government. Drawing inspiration from books such as 1984, Vendetta accurately depicts a future not so far from reality, all while bringing new concepts of how it could come about.
  
  
  
  "What do you think will happen?"
  "What usually happens when people without guns stand up to people with guns."
  • Posted Mar 12, 2008 5:51 pm PT
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