Best Film Adaptations of Comic Books

[haohmaru]

My personal favorites:

1.) The Crow. Best ever, IMHO
2.) Spiderman/Spiderman 2. Faithful, if not as dark as I would've liked. Still among the top 10 (both).
3.) Batman. Michael Keaton, dark, human and tortured.
4.) Superman. Original Christopher Reeves flick > Superman Returns
5.) Conan The Barbarian. Sure, Arnie said very few lines, but so did Conan.
6.) Daredevil. Perhaps my personal weakest in the top 10, but I loved it.
7.) X-Men, X-Men 2. Similar in quality. The third was complete crap.
8.) Batman Begins. Bale made a good Batman. Fuck Val Kilmer and Clooney and Keaton's 2nd attempt wasn't as good as this.
9.) Superman Returns. The kid ruined this for me. I dunno.
10.) Sin City.

Feel free to point out glaring omissions, faulty choices, and other. Growing up, the Hulk and Conan were my two favorite books with X-Men bringing up the rear. The Hulk was changed too much from the original comic to warrant inclusion here. Superman II was decent, 3 & 4 were complete trash.

[Melf]

Captain America FTW.

I pretty much agree with your list, save that I would have put Daredevil last. It was good, but weaker than Batman and the others.

The first Conan film was indeed the shiznit (Wal-Mart has the collector's two-pack for $10!).

[Jester]

Sin City and Batman Begins are the best adaptations. Best film is a matter of opinion, but definitely the most true to their source.

[MechDeus]

1.) The Crow. Best ever, IMHO

I wish they had gotten to finish the scenes with the skeleton cowboy, that movie really makes me wonder how it would've turned out if it had gotten finished. Not really sure if it would've been better or worse.

[kingoffighters]

Sin City and Batman Begins are the best adaptations. Best film is a matter of opinion, but definitely the most true to their source.

Agreed.

[voltz]

Red sonja makes me LOL!! with the inclusion of "Short-round" in the cast.

[Cheebs]

The recent-ish Punisher is the best.

Then again, I love "bad" movies, and it doesn't get much worse than that one.

[Anal Kaboom]

I liked punisher too. I woulda put Sin City Closer to the top i haven seen crow in years but i remember it was awesome when i saw it.

[flux=rad]

Red sonja makes me LOL!! with the inclusion of "Short-round" in the cast.

That's not the same kid. The kid from Red Sonja is in TMNT 2, though, and he's a total bad ass.

Also, are the Conan movies really comic book adaptations? I thought they were originally novels. They just happen to have movies and comics based on them.

[Mman]

V for Vendetta, Batman Returns, Blade.

Spiderman and the first 2 X-Men are ok too.