Marvel and DC fans don't often see eye to eye on a lot, but there are some fans that love each one equally and are just happy to be seeing comic
book movies on the big screen that are bigger and better than ever before.
Not exact matches
As the
movie - going public slowly catches up
on who Thanos is and what he has planned for the universe, the comic
book fans of the world eagerly — but cautiously — wait to see how Marvel will bring The Infinity Gauntlet to the
big screen.
In hindsight, it's understandable how passionate he is with the project considering that it took him more than a decade, and a few comic
book movie blunders, to be able to bring this variation of Deadpool
on the
big screen.
There are some drawbacks to this approach, but
on the plus side, the
movie's showpiece multi-superhero brawl is perhaps the most purely delightful translation of comic -
book action to the
big screen ever — a cooperative crossover marvel, as it were.
Keaton plays the lead role, that of a former
movie star, best known for playing a comic
book hero
on the
big screen (hello!)
Listed in the Guinness
Book of World Records as the «most - represented
movie character,» Sherlock Holmes is certainly no stranger to adaptations, currently being played
on the
big and small
screen by actors such as Benedict Cumberbatch, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Downey Jr..
Frank Miller's
big screen incarnation of Will Eisner's landmark comic superhero series The Spirit was not a hit in theaters and the visually dynamic but narratively sketchy comic
book movie isn't any better
on DVD.
Things get more tangled as the
movie goes
on: Based
on Michael Lewis» rightly acclaimed
book, about the traders who foresaw a collapse in mortgages that would lead to a bank crisis and a nationwide financial panic in 2008, the
big -
screen version is a film without an audience.
As Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Bad Boys II, and Legally Blonde 2 touch down in theatres, Die Another Day, The Jungle
Book 2, and the Brady Bunch
movies land
on DVD, and then there are the cross-promotions: It seems like everyone wants a piece of the fallout from Universal's
big -
screen Hulk, with Fox, Buena Vista, Anchor Bay, and Universal itself issuing «Hulk» - branded discs prior to the feature film's June 20th opening.
Eighteen years into the comic
book movie millennium, it's easy to take for granted that there now exists a whole cinematic universe full of characters that Marvel Comics readers could previously only dream about seeing up
on the
big screen.
Sports
on the
big screen In The Ultimate
Book of Sports
Movies: Featuring the 100 Greatest Sports Films of All Time, Ray Didinger and Glen Macnow — both Philadelphians with solid sports media backgrounds — offer descriptions of movies ranging from Rocky (# 1) to The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (#
Movies: Featuring the 100 Greatest Sports Films of All Time, Ray Didinger and Glen Macnow — both Philadelphians with solid sports media backgrounds — offer descriptions of
movies ranging from Rocky (# 1) to The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (#
movies ranging from Rocky (# 1) to The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (# 100).
Though I'd much rather read a
book on a 7 - inch tablet, for
movies and games, a
bigger screen is always better.
Plenty of
movies are based
on books, but many hit the
big screen with their names changed.
Though I'd much rather read a
book on a 7 - inch tablet, for
movies and games, a
bigger screen is always better.