Writer's Block: Live action hero
Aug. 10th, 2011 06:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdelmonte[Error: unknown template qotd]
My favorite remains the 1978 Superman film. Chris Reeve's performance is the gold standard for superheroes, heartfelt and earnest but also likeable and light. And while the film is a bit silly, it gets to the heart of Superman and to why I love comic book heroes.
Least favorite? Probably the two Schumacher Batman films. No filmmaker has ever had less of sense of what makes a character work than Schumacher did.
ETA: The worst film, in terms of overall quality, was the second Swamp Thing film. Not that the first was great either, but Heather Locklear as Abby Arcane might be one of the worst casting decisions of all time. However, at least they kind of got Swamp Thing right, and Dick Durock was always at least passable in the role (and often good on the later TV show).
My favorite remains the 1978 Superman film. Chris Reeve's performance is the gold standard for superheroes, heartfelt and earnest but also likeable and light. And while the film is a bit silly, it gets to the heart of Superman and to why I love comic book heroes.
Least favorite? Probably the two Schumacher Batman films. No filmmaker has ever had less of sense of what makes a character work than Schumacher did.
ETA: The worst film, in terms of overall quality, was the second Swamp Thing film. Not that the first was great either, but Heather Locklear as Abby Arcane might be one of the worst casting decisions of all time. However, at least they kind of got Swamp Thing right, and Dick Durock was always at least passable in the role (and often good on the later TV show).
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: Aug. 10th, 2011 11:48 am (UTC)(Of course this neatly sums up why I don't talk to my mom about comics or movies. Hell! Sin!)
Least favorite that I actually *saw* was Ghost Rider with Nicolas Cage. Ugh.
(no subject)
Date: Aug. 10th, 2011 11:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Aug. 10th, 2011 12:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Aug. 10th, 2011 01:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Aug. 10th, 2011 02:28 pm (UTC)I would have said The Crow, but I saw the movie long before I read the comic and I liked the movie waaaaaaay more.
Least favorite: Daredevil
Heather Locklear as Abby Arcane might be one of the worst casting decisions of all time
Worse than Jessica Alba as Sue Storm or Halle Berry as Storm?
(no subject)
Date: Aug. 10th, 2011 10:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Aug. 10th, 2011 03:28 pm (UTC)It's the only one that stands on its own, and isn't easily dismissed as a "comic book movie." I dare say that it's the best adaptation to date.
Least: Constantine.
Not because it's a bad movie, but because it's not. But because it's not the Hellblazer movie I wanted.
Which isn't to say that there aren't LOADS of crap comicbook movies.
These are just the two that stick out the most in my mind. ie.