{"id":8875,"date":"2015-05-07T08:41:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T15:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=8875"},"modified":"2015-05-07T08:41:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T15:41:41","slug":"top-ten-forgotten-comic-book-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=8875","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Forgotten Comic Book Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

In it\u2019s opening weekend, Avengers: Age of Ultron made $631 million dollars worldwide (1) and is going to be one of the biggest, blah, blah, blah\u2026<\/em> Hollywood\u2019s hyper-fetish with comics goes back a long time and along the way there have been some good, some bad and some that make you wish the comic was never even drawn in the first place. (We\u2019re looking at you, Howard the Duck<\/em>) But there are a lot of cool movies people may have forgotten about or may not have known were based on comics, thankfully, Jalshamoviez<\/a> has them all. So here\u2019s a top-ten list of comic-based movies that deserve a second chance.
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  1. Tank Girl<\/em> (1995)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    With all the fuss about no female leads in these types of movies, I had to find one and I totally forgot this one was made. The script sucked, but there were some pretty cool scenes for the 90\u2019s and Lori Petty totally gets in to the character. Naomi Watts was in this this flick, too, which I also forgot. Can\u2019t go wrong with Iggy Pop, either. Mostly you\u2019re just waiting to see if Naomi and Lori make out.<\/p>\n

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    1. Constantine<\/em> (2005)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      First off, the movie doesn\u2019t follow the graphic novel very well and the purists went ape-shit, but, screw their pretentious asses. Like most Keanu Reeves movies, if you go into this movie with no expectations, you\u2019ll probably enjoy it more. They all can\u2019t be The Matrix, you know. A forgettable Rachel Weisz co-stars, but there\u2019s also a pre-douchebag Shia LaBeouf, so it evens out in the end. Oh yeah, for the kiddies Gwen Stefani\u2019s husband appears as a demon.<\/p>\n

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      1. American Splendor<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        There are a few actors that I seem to gravitate towards and Paul Giamatti is definitely one of them. He is a complete riot when he gets pissed off and lets his voice rise. This film does Harvey justice, in my option, as well. The entire film has a morose feel to it, just like his drawings. You feel as though even when something goes right, it doesn\u2019t really help the overall situation, so you\u2019re still depressed. And Judah Friedlander completely nails Toby.<\/p>\n

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        1. Time Cop<\/em> (1994)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Time Cop<\/em> was Van Damme\u2019s highest grossing film he had a lead in (2) and, along with Bloodspor<\/em>t and Kickboxer<\/em>, is one of his best movies. The late-Ron Silver plays a great \u2018dickhead\u2019 antagonist plus Mia Sara makes (what seems like) her first public appearance since Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off<\/em>.\u00a0 JVD at his peak, a great character-actor villain and a grown up Sloane Peterson, what more do you want??<\/p>\n

          [JVDs peak is more like a cliff, though. His next movie was Street Fighter<\/em> and JVDs career totally tanked after this.]<\/p>\n

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          1. Road to Perdition<\/em> (2002)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            For the first time, Tom Hanks gets to play kind of bad ass. It\u2019s a long ways from Bosom Buddies<\/em> and Bachelor Party<\/em>, as he plays an Irish-mob hitman with a conscience. But in the end, he stays true to his Tom Hanks-edness. This movie is based on a graphic novel that came out in early aughts and kind of strays, but the themes stays true to the source material. Probably the best received movie upon release on this list.
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            1. Heavy Metal<\/em> (1981)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              The soundtrack was awesome, but the movie was just a cool. The cab-driver vignette is totally rad and the first time I saw the robot sniff all that coke, I nearly peed myself. Great pre-CGI animation, too.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of confusing if you\u2019re stoned, but, really, that\u2019s the point, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

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              1. Spawn<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                I think I put this one so high on the list because I was such a big fan of the comics. It\u2019s one of the more violent movies on this list, and the story is decent, although it lags at times. John Leguizamo in a fatman clown-suit, doing those voices is priceless. A lot of differences from the comics, but still a cool flick.<\/p>\n

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                1. Fritz the Cat<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                  No way in hell this movie gets made today, much less receive major distribution. There are scenes in this movie that will still offend people, perhaps more so in the uber-PC of today, but it is one of the funniest movies I have seen. The 70\u2019s were some crazy friggin\u2019 times, man.<\/p>\n

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                  1. A History of Violence<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                    When this movie was released and I really didn\u2019t expect it to be such a good movie. There are some key differences in the book, but for the most part is stays true. William Hurt got nominated for an Academy Award for about five minutes of acting, but it was actually well deserved. He pulls off a great piece of acting in the climax scene.\u00a0 \u201cYou can die\u2026Joey\u201d
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                    1. Mystery Men<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                      I love this movie. It\u2019s the complete anti-Avengers<\/em> super-hero flick. Anything with Paul Rubens and Tom Waits is going to be good. Roger Ebert had a saying that any movie that had Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh can\u2019t be that bad. I kind of feel that way about Tom Waits.<\/p>\n

                      [Try to look past the fact that it has Dane Cook. I have no idea why people find him anywhere near funny. He is not. Never has been. Not even when you went to go see him live that one time was he ever funny. Not once.]<\/p>\n

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                      1. http:\/\/deadline.com\/2015\/05\/avengers-age-of-ultron-thursday-box-office-1201419080\/<\/a><\/li>\n
                      2. http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timecop<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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