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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2354152" data-attributes="member: 151">True that.  For totally faithful adaption, nothing tops Sin City, a near shot for shot and word for word reproduction of the comic.  The incredibles is easily the best Superhero movie made, IMHO, while the best superhero movies include X2, Spiderman 2,  Superman the Movie and now Batman Begins.  X2 is faithful in concept and execution, if not letter of the law, in the same vein of BB, which doesn't follow the canon....but let's be honest, here: the canon has been rewritten a half-dozen times for most of these characters.  Batman's prehistory has been clarified, redefined and slightly rewritten for decades.  Spiderman...well, not's go there, shall we (even if you ignore the 'clone' nonsense, we still have John Byrne's....contributions).The fact is that as I get older, I care less and less about being specific to the canon of the comics, when the comics aren't really that internally consistent to begin with.  What I'm concerned with is when they distill the original characters and concepts down to a pure form and pass it back to me anew.  Batman Begins did just that.  The original '88 Batman movie was like water to a man in a desert...we were all thrilled that someone had made a relatively non-campy movie about a superhero that we weren't embarassed to admit having seen.  But looking back at it now, it hasn't aged well; worse, the cracks have gotten worse.  I remember Sam Hamm referred to the experience when Jack Nicholson asked why the latest of dozens of rewrites had him doing some seemingly pointless action, and him having to tell "I don't know, Jack...I just don't know."  By today's standards, it seems really....well, kinda bad, honestly.Oh, and to you young whipper-snappers: Superman the Movie was NOT faithful to the comics of the time.  It was anything but; Superman wasn't working at the Daily Planet in those days, he was a TV anchorman working for Morgan Edge.  His powers were significantly greater and less than the movie version...there were tons of things different at the time.  The Superman  movie directly influenced Superman's reboot, with John Byrne taking many cues from Reeves' performance.  I mean, if you want perspective, try watching the first Wonder Woman pilot movie or ANY Captain America movie.  ACK.</blockquote>

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