Originally posted by piemanTwo for me as well. When you have a pack of little kids, you don't see many movies, what with the price of tickets and the prices of babysitters. Yikes.
I saw Return of the King and Matrix Reloaded out of that whole list.
Say it with me pieman... video store
I swear, I rent twice as much as I go to the theatres.
Hahahahaha.... when we go to the video store, it's the kids who pick out the movies, not the adults!
As an aside, I did notice you share your birthday with my wife, albeit 18 years apart.
Originally posted by Mr Heel III saw 15 of Freeway's 25, 37 overall.
Apparently my odd one out amongst Wienerboard members is "Daredevil". That was my favorite of the Marvel movies this year.
The main problem with the comic movie genre is that 95% of the time, what's on the screen will be compared with what's on the page. Daredevil changed a lot of things. The story was kind of weak, and they jammed a lot in there. If they had done a simple ripoff of Frank Miller's Man Without Fear, the movie would've been excellent. Spider-Man stands out (with Superman) as the best comic film simply because they started at the beginning, instead of starting in the middle of things like Daredevil (and Batman did to a lesser extent). X-Men started at A beginning, so that X2 had a good jumping-off point.
FLAMES: 19-10-3-3 TOP 10 FILMS OF 2003: [10] Finding Nemo, [9] Seabiscuit, [8] Matchstick Men, [7] Open Range, [6] Cold Mountain, [5] House of Sand & Fog, [4] Mystic River, [3] The Last Samurai, [2] Lost In Translation, [1] Return of the King
I've always thought that you could easily condense a superhero's origin in a film to the opening credits, therefore being able to start the movie fresh at the beginning.
Plus, if we're talking about the big heroes (supes, bats, spidey), everyone, even non-comics fans, probably knows their origins anyway.
THE GOOD COMIC FILMS: X-Men [2000] Origin summarized early as "Hey, they're born like this"; X-Men grouping explained by Xavier during first 35 minutes. Spider-Man [2003] Origin took half the movie, but they did it well. Batman [1989] Origin shown in flashback 3/4 of the way through. Superman [1980] Origin shown in first 35 minutes. Blade [1998] Origin shown early, summarized later by Whistler.
FLAMES: 19-10-3-3 TOP 10 FILMS OF 2003: [10] Finding Nemo, [9] Seabiscuit, [8] Matchstick Men, [7] Open Range, [6] Cold Mountain, [5] House of Sand & Fog, [4] Mystic River, [3] The Last Samurai, [2] Lost In Translation, [1] Return of the King
Originally posted by Freeway420The main problem with the comic movie genre is that 95% of the time, what's on the screen will be compared with what's on the page.
Yeah, and I went in basically looking for a good movie based on nothing I was familiar with. I never read the Daredevil comics. The movie was the first exposure to me, so I was able to just enjoy it as a standalone movie.
Johnny Depp is fabulous, he's one of the few "pretty boy" actors that I find really talented, Pirates was good all around but Depp added a lot to that... Matchstick Men was very good too. Nicholas Cage is really becoming one of the most under appreciated actors of our time. Return of the king would round out my top 3.
2003 Smackdown: Matt Hardy = Mattitude Version 1 2004 Raw: Matt Hardy = Marc Mero Version 2
A few ideas: Toronto's a great holiday destination. Unless your kids have a fear of heights, they're probably love the CN Tower. Plus, Toronto's close to Niagara Falls, which is a wonderful place to visit.