Top 5 Underrated Comic Book Movies

Top 5 Underrated Comic Book Movies

This is my list of the top 5 comics adaptations most bashed, trashed and all around hated on. You may agree or disagree, but all in all its my list so learn to love :)

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By realfirstavenger - Mar 25, 2009 09:03 PM EST
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1) Spawn
The movie is dark, funny and interesting as hell. Even though the special effects are pretty weak it was an all around good movie.


2) The Phantom
Billy Zane is the man and even though the movie had a very campy feel to it, that seemed to be its redeeming factor. It reveled in its campyness.


3) Daredevil
Farrel haters make no sense. Bullseye should be over acted because he is just like that in the comics. Completely insane and full of himself. Affleck takes way too much crap for this movie.


4) Blade Trinity
Reynolds brought great comic relief to the movie that contrary to popular belief, was great for the movie. Blade sticks to his cold hearted and unemotional ways while someone else brings a little comedy to the show. Casting Triple H was the biggest mistake of the movie, other than that it is a compelling story.


5) Constantine
Poor Reeves takes so much crap for all his movie and this one is no exception. I honestly love this movie and the story is phenominal. The acting by everyone is great, even though Reeves is not the greatest actor he does a decent job as John Constantine.

Many will disagree but I know there are people out there who secretly agree.
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Joslezio85
Joslezio85 - 3/25/2009, 9:35 PM
I, for one, completely agree. I liked all of these movies.

In your teaser. You said: This is my list of the top 5 movies to be bashed, trashed and all around hated on based on comics.

You make it sound like you hate them. But than, you defend them. Might wanna reconsider some word changing. Maybe, Top five movies that have been bashed, trashed and all around hated...or something...
gestlmutant
gestlmutant - 3/25/2009, 10:09 PM
I completely agree with you on every level. I loved the Spawn and Constatine movies. Billy Zane was a great Phantom and very underated as an actor. I can watch Blade III over and over again and still be entertained by the way Snipes and Reynolds play off of eachother. And Daredevil is not only my favorite comic book hero but also my favorite comic book movie. Everyone loved it when it came out, it even had cameos by the 2 best DD writers ever (Kevin Smith & Frank Miller) Affleck was the Shizzit in that movie and people only bag on him now because that became the in thing to do somewhere along the line. Every character, scene, and plot line felt just like the comics. I will stand by this movie for life!
Joslezio85
Joslezio85 - 3/25/2009, 11:33 PM
@gestl, i agree it was a good movie. But I personally think they should've made it a lot darker.
FalconX2
FalconX2 - 3/26/2009, 2:42 AM
As a movie Constantine was very interesting, but to call it an underrated comic movie is a misnomer in my opinion. A good movie yes, a good comic movie no. A soft spoken, dark haired American playing a loud mouthed, blond haired British cynic based on the musician Sting.

I do agree on Phantom though. I liked Phantom, I thought it was fun, and for what it was, promoted the source very well.

Daredevil, I do think is underrated, but I just didn't like it. My wife, however, loved it.

Blade and Spawn, I just never really cared for anyway.
theFACE
theFACE - 3/26/2009, 3:54 AM
Good article dude, love it.

Daredevil was awesome, yeah there were a few things i would have changed, affleck wasn't bad but some else would have been better. But when all is said and done it deserves more credit than it got. If people would have looked past the travesty that was pearl harbour, and judged the daredevil movie instead of just judging affleck we may have had a sequel by now, or possibly even a threequel. I for one would love to see daredevil yellow brought to the screen.

i have never seen the phantom, but feel i should check it out. ANd i have Blade trinity and spawn on dvd so that kinda shows my stance on those two. And i've never seen constantine and i probably wont, nothing against the movie, i just dont feel like watching it.

Either way dude, great article.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 3/26/2009, 6:59 AM
Agree on Daredevil and Constantine..although thats actually quite praised by critics so its really not underrated..just by the fanboys.

Blade Trinity was bad..but i enjoyed parts of it.

Phantom...was Phantom,..id have Nick Fury in there ahead of this!


As a Spawn comic fan i have to say that movie was a steaming pile of garbage..quite possibly one of the worst movies (in any genre) i have ever seen
realfirstavenger
realfirstavenger - 3/26/2009, 8:22 AM
@falconx2, yeah its true that they did not go the route they should have with the character but all in all it is still an underated movie based on a comic book character
why they felt the need to cast reeves instead of someone who fit the actual role i have no idea but i love that movie

@gestl, i agree
when the movie came out you didnt hear nearly as much bashing as you do now

@rorshcach, you make me laugh sir
btw i have never seen the fury movie, know where i can get a copy?
the spawn analysis i know i cant change your mind on so i wont try :)

other movies i could have added are ultraviolet, aeon flux and elektra
i enjoyed all of those movies too
elektra was the bottom of the pile but still entertaining
and garner is just too dam sexy for words
theFACE
theFACE - 3/26/2009, 11:07 AM
@realfirstavenger, you could try bit torrents, it's a long shot but you never know. And i got to agree with you on AEON flux and Elektra, i didn't watch those movies for the storyline.

Here are some links for nick fury torrents:

http://www.torrentz.com/72c1006766a7a789922d5193159b59710320f819

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/42886786/Nick+Fury+Agent+Of+Shield?tab=summary
alphamale80
alphamale80 - 3/26/2009, 12:18 PM
Spawn was the biggest heart breaker to me it got butchered and flushed down the toliet. This was my favorite comic they need to bring this back to the moive theater.
realfirstavenger
realfirstavenger - 3/27/2009, 3:58 AM
agreed that the second was the best
directed by the best director ever, giullermo del toro
hence the amazing effects and otherwordlyness of the ubervampires
Shaman
Shaman - 3/27/2009, 12:16 PM
Sorry, 1st was the best. Norrington's masterpiece, dark and gritty no where near farytale-ish :))

Great article dude!!!
Tobuttica
Tobuttica - 3/29/2009, 2:29 AM
What's with almost everyone having the same crap on their fan sites? It's somewhat of a let down to go into one and see that it has the same thing as the three before it.
realfirstavenger
realfirstavenger - 3/29/2009, 3:16 PM
@ tobuttica, i have not seen this on any other fansite personally
there are other lists of comic book movies based on whatever criteria
but the criteria is what makes them different
and what is your fansite by the way???


check out Comic Book Battleground for something a little more original
dogchasingcars
dogchasingcars - 3/30/2009, 8:07 AM
i agree with you a hundred percent on all of these movies except spawn i didn't get into it that much
Betty
Betty - 3/30/2009, 10:13 AM
I agree with all of these except constantine. I just couldnt focus on the movie. Maybe it was because it was at the drive in... and i was getting blazed...

Wesley Snipes was the worst thing about Blade Trinity IMO.
Coats
Coats - 4/2/2009, 2:12 AM
Spawn would have been better with some tighter performances by the actors. John Leguizamo was fun, but the rest were a little weak. It was a popcorn comic to begin with, so i didn't expect much from the film. The cartoon was stronger than the film.
Phantom=Awesome.
Daredevil was decent, the director's cut was better. I reeeeeaaaaalllllllyyyyyy could have done without the playground scene. It might have been the dumbest and most unnecessary thing i've ever watched.
Trinity was fun. Not a great flick, but it was entertaining and I liked the characters. Constantine was pretty *&%ing solid other than the holy shotgun. The shotgun also ranks in the dumbest things i've seen on film. But hell, the rest of the movie was great. Even though i would have loved to see a british bad-ass of some kind play the role, Keanu did alright as the character's Americanized version. I'd see him back for a sequel without chagrin. I'm serious about my constantine, and I thought the catholic thing was a total cop-out to his occultist background but as a film, it stands pretty solid. My wife even liked it, and it's pulling teeth to get her to watch a comic film.
Coats
Coats - 4/2/2009, 2:20 AM
And betty, you had to be blazed. :) You should try it again!! Between Peter Stormare's devil, the sharp color scheme, the great cast....
It trashes the continuity of the comics in so many ways (more than i can count) and usually that leaves me peeved. I don't know if it was the directing or what, but for some reason it just didn't bug me with this one (holy shotgun aside). Not saying it's perfect, but I think it worked.
TheDurkinKnight
TheDurkinKnight - 4/6/2009, 11:36 AM
You have a good heart Avenger...but I didn't like any of these movies. I'm sorry. But what you DID make me think of is this: I was reading some website once and it mentioned that Marvel was interested in launching a live-action Iron Man TV show during the era of the Incredible Hulk TV show. I could barely find out anything for it. You ever hear of it?
odie00
odie00 - 7/11/2009, 10:26 PM
the only one i disagree on is dare devil, i'm not a dare devil fan as it is really but ben affleck, come on they should have had cuba gooding jr cause he's a way better actor anyways lol, if any of you have seen team america you know what im talking about. oh and blade 3 besides triple h i would say jessica beil was another fault in it. she was taking on multiple vampires with her power ranger bow are you kidding.
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