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The best comic book film adaptations of the decade?
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The Process of turning comic books into movies has seen some hits, misses and very varied approaches over the years, with few films (or TV show interpretations) given a serious treatment in previous decades.
It's often said that the first Blade film, released in 1998 and based on Marvel's vampire title, paved the way for the current era of adaptations, although many mainstream viewers won't even realise that Blade is a comic book character.
It's more likely that the catalyst was Bryan Singer's first X-Men film in 2000 which was a major success. Whatever you might think of the movie and its changes from the source material, its combination of a heavyweight cast to broaden the marketability and a serious, respectful take on the comics to satisfy fans proved to be a win-win situation.
Since then there's been 10 years of releases, not all of them well-regarded or financially successful.
I recently
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Top 100 Tuesday: 100 Best Movies of the Decade
29 December 2009 4:43 AM, PST
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We are leaving Kubrick behind and fast approaching Hyams. If you get that reference, go grab yourself a cookie. It is time for us to reflect back on the decade that was. On January 1st, 2000, Disney released Fantasia 2000. On Wednesday, December 30th, 2009, The White Ribbon is set to bow. Between the release of these two films, thousands of films came and went, and some of them were far more memorable than others. It was a long trek getting this list together, but here are our collective top 100 films of the past decade.
Quick Year-to-Year by the Numbers:
2009 – 11
2008 – 11
2007 – 7
2006 – 14
2005 – 12
2004 – 8
2003 – 7
2002 – 12
2001 – 10
2000 – 8
100. Million Dollar Baby (2004) – Clint Eastwood
99. Juno (2007) – Jason Reitman
98. An Education (2009) – Lone Scherfig
97. Spider-man 2 (2004) – Sam Raimi
96. Munich (2005) – Steven Spielberg
95. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) – Wes Anderson
94. The King Of Kong (2007) – Seth Gordon
93. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’S Stone (2001) – Chris Columbus
92. Clerks 2 (2006) – Kevin Smith
91. Femme Fatale (2002) – Brian De Palma
90. Tasogare Seibei
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tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (50-41)
28 December 2009 9:59 PM, PST
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Editors Note: This week our resident film critic David Dimichele will count down the top 50 best films of the decade. Today we will look at the first ten from the list and unveil a new portion of the list each day until we get to the number one film of this past decade.
The countdown starts after the jump.
50. The Dark Knight (2008)
This nocturnal epic of a nightmare can be a metaphor to what may await America. With President-elect Obama ready to step in and lay a new foundation over a rundown America that is suffering from economic issues, bailout options, unemployment and the always looming threat of a terrorist attack, director Christopher Nolan conceives such unfavorable situations and employs them in a world that usually doesn’t deal with such catastrophes. He dominates the comic book atmosphere of Batman like no one has ever done with jokers, white knights,
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tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (50-41)
28 December 2009 9:59 PM, PST
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Editors Note: This week our resident film critic David Dimichele will count down the top 50 best films of the decade. Today we will look at the first ten from the list and unveil a new portion of the list each day until we get to the number one film of this past decade.
The countdown starts after the jump.
50. The Dark Knight (2008)
This nocturnal epic of a nightmare can be a metaphor to what may await America. With President-elect Obama ready to step in and lay a new foundation over a rundown America that is suffering from economic issues, bailout options, unemployment and the always looming threat of a terrorist attack, director Christopher Nolan conceives such unfavorable situations and employs them in a world that usually doesn’t deal with such catastrophes. He dominates the comic book atmosphere of Batman like no one has ever done with jokers, white knights,
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tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (50-41)
28 December 2009 9:59 PM, PST
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Editors Note: This week our resident film critic David Dimichele will count down the top 50 best films of the decade. Today we will look at the first ten from the list and unveil a new portion of the list each day until we get to the number one film of this past decade.
The countdown starts after the jump.
50. The Dark Knight (2008)
This nocturnal epic of a nightmare can be a metaphor to what may await America. With President-elect Obama ready to step in and lay a new foundation over a rundown America that is suffering from economic issues, bailout options, unemployment and the always looming threat of a terrorist attack, director Christopher Nolan conceives such unfavorable situations and employs them in a world that usually doesn’t deal with such catastrophes. He dominates the comic book atmosphere of Batman like no one has ever done with jokers, white knights,
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tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (50-41)
28 December 2009 9:59 PM, PST
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Editors Note: This week our resident film critic David Dimichele will count down the top 50 best films of the decade. Today we will look at the first ten from the list and unveil a new portion of the list each day until we get to the number one film of this past decade.
The countdown starts after the jump.
50. The Dark Knight (2008)
This nocturnal epic of a nightmare can be a metaphor to what may await America. With President-elect Obama ready to step in and lay a new foundation over a rundown America that is suffering from economic issues, bailout options, unemployment and the always looming threat of a terrorist attack, director Christopher Nolan conceives such unfavorable situations and employs them in a world that usually doesn’t deal with such catastrophes. He dominates the comic book atmosphere of Batman like no one has ever done with jokers, white knights,
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tMF Top 50: Best Movies of the 2000s (50-41)
28 December 2009 9:59 PM, PST
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Editors Note: This week our resident film critic David Dimichele will count down the top 50 best films of the decade. Today we will look at the first ten from the list and unveil a new portion of the list each day until we get to the number one film of this past decade.
The countdown starts after the jump.
50. The Dark Knight (2008)
This nocturnal epic of a nightmare can be a metaphor to what may await America. With President-elect Obama ready to step in and lay a new foundation over a rundown America that is suffering from economic issues, bailout options, unemployment and the always looming threat of a terrorist attack, director Christopher Nolan conceives such unfavorable situations and employs them in a world that usually doesn’t deal with such catastrophes. He dominates the comic book atmosphere of Batman like no one has ever done with jokers, white knights,
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- rlpolo04@aol.com (David DiMichele)
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Cronenberg’s ‘The Talking Cure’ Cast Update
24 December 2009 12:27 AM, PST
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David Cronenberg, the acclaimed director behind Eastern Promises, A History of Violence and Crash has brought some recognizable faces to his upcoming film, The Talking Cure. The news came to us from the Facebook page of Hopscotch Films, distributor of the flick, by way of Jo Blo. Keira Knightley, Christoph Waltz and Michael Fassbender will be doing the honors.
Not sure you’d recognize those last two names? I know you’d recognize the first one anywhere and if you are desperate for another photo to feed your madness read on…
Here’s a synopsis of the film from the Hopscotch folks:
“A beautiful young woman, driven mad by her past. An ambitious doctor on a mission to succeed. An esteemed mentor with a revolutionary cure. Let the mind games begin…”
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My money’s on Waltz (Inglorious Basterds, 814 different German films) playing the esteemed mentor, Knightly (Pirates of the Caribbean
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UK Exclusive: Viggo Mortensen On “The Road”
23 December 2009 5:47 PM, PST
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To say that Viggo Mortensen has had a varied career would be doing the man an injustice. As an actor, Mortensen’s resume is a jumbled list of indie, art-house and mainstream films, so how is it that such an experienced actor only really came into the public eye as one Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy? The man has since gone on to star in several moderately successful films including Hidalgo, A History of Violence and Eastern Promises, however I do believe that his next project, The Road will mark one hell of a milestone on the man’s ever-growing list of achievements in the UK and Australia when it hits in the New Year. The fact that it only got limited release in the Us back in November is something of a bloody travesty!
The Road is the post-apocalyptic tale of a man and a boy
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Two 'Inglourious Basterds' Stars And A 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' Star Sign On With David Cronenberg
23 December 2009 8:00 AM, PST
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There are two nearly universal facts when it comes to filmmaker David Cronenberg, the man who birthed the likes of "The Fly" and "Videodrome" into the world. The first is that, when watching one of his films, you will shift uncomfortably in your seat at least once from something that happens on the screen. And number two? You'll always walk away with something to think about.
Cronenberg is a talented filmmaker, and a smart one. Despite his flirtations with the avant-garde, he has nonetheless remained firmly entrenched in the mainstream consciousness with efforts like "Eastern Promises" and "A History of Violence." His next project has been something of a question mark for awhile. Spy thriller "The Matarese Circle" went away after Tom Cruise dropped out to do "Knight & Day." And there's been no news at all on his plans to adapt Don DeLillo's "Cosmopolis." It's looking like his next
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Decade in Review: 2005 Top Ten
19 December 2009 4:00 PM, PST
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2009 is almost over and so many magazines and websites have already offered up their best of the year And decade that I'm afraid y'all will get sick of the retrospectives before The Film Experience has chimed on. Remember: the tortoise wins! 2005's top ten list (in its original form) follows. New comments in red.
Public Favorites (Box Office): Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, War of the Worlds, King Kong, Wedding Crashers, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Batman Begins, Madagascar and Mr & Mrs Smith
Oscar Favorites: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Good Night and Good Luck and Munich
My Vote For UnderAppreciated: In Her Shoes, Happy Endings and The White Countess
Top Ten Runners Up (11-15): The Squid and the Whale, Match Point, The New World, Junebug and The Beat That My Heart Skipped.
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The Best of the Decade: The Comic Book Flicks
18 December 2009 5:03 PM, PST
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Trying to rank the best comic flicks of the decade is a surprisingly tough task. I've approached it with all the enthusiasm Hester Prynne must have shown walking to the scaffold. It's not because I don't love discussing the past ten years of the genre, but because I hate ranking films. It puts me into knots of indecision. If I could, I would rank things in a sort of Venn diagram - Iron Man overlaps Batman Begins which overshadows Spider-Man.
But Venn diagrams are impossible to post, and the end of the decade demands lists. So please, take this as one humble writer's list, and use it to jump-start your own. To keep myself sane, I'm leaving off adaptations such as A History of Violence and Road to Perdition. They were based on graphic novels, and they certainly elevated the art of comic adaptation to a whole new level, but that's precisely the problem.
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- Elisabeth Rappe
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100 best films of the noughties: Nos 11-90
18 December 2009 2:17 AM, PST
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The Guardian film team's pick of the top 100 movies of the decade. Check back from 21 December as we unveil the top 10 day by day
11-20
11. Waltz With Bashir
12. Dig!
13. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
14. The Consequences of Love
15. No Country for Old Men
16. Silent Light
17. Japon
18. The Sun
19. What Time Is It There?
20. Before Sunset
21-30
21. Unrelated
22. One and a Two
23. Ivansxtc
24. Let the Right One In
25. Of Time and the City
26. When the Levees Broke
27. You Can Count on Me
28. A Serious Man
29. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
30. Control
31-40
31. The Death of Mr Lazarescu
32. Grizzly Man
33. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
34. Être et Avoir
35. Far from Heaven
36. Hidden
37. The Hurt Locker
38. Oldboy
39. The New World
40. The Piano Teacher
41-50
41. Spirited Away
42. Vera Drake
43. American Splendor
44. Capturing the Friedmans
45. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
46. Crimson Gold
47. A History of Violence
48. In the Mood for Love
49. Movern Callar
50. The Night of the Sunflowers
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Two
16 December 2009 3:18 AM, PST
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Case 39
Opens: January 1st 2010
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Kerry O'Malley
Director: Christian Alvart
Summary: A family services social worker thinks she has seen it all until she meets her newest, most mysterious case - a troubled 10-year old girl whose parents try to kill her. The social worker decides to take her in herself until the right foster family comes along.
Analysis: Despite the presence of promising German director Christian Alvart ("Pandorum"), 'Case' has sat on a shelf since late 2006 and is finally being quietly shuffled out this year for one very good reason - it stinks. Having opened in Australia a few months back, reviewers utterly savaged the film as both incredibly dumb and utterly ludicrous. Lead star Renee Zellweger also scored personal criticism to a level rarely seen in film reviews outside of comments about Nicole Kidman's 'more alien than the
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New York Critics Give 'Hurt Locker' Top Honors
14 December 2009 12:02 PM, PST
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by Erik Childress
For the first time since 2005 with Brokeback Mountain, the New York Film Critics have agreed with Los Angeles in their selections for Best Film and Director. Today the East Coast Circle announced The Hurt Locker and director Kathryn Bigelow have taken their top prizes, just one day after Boston and L.A. did the same. This is the fifth straight critic's group to honor Bigelow as director of the year after the National Board of Review led off awards season by choosing Clint Eastwood for Invictus. Apparently they felt Eastwood was a better "get" for their annual celebrity party than Bigelow, but there's currently no bigger shining star than her. The only times that NY & La agreed on their choice for director since 1999 - 2000's Steven Soderbergh and 2005's Ang Lee - they went on to victory at the Oscars.
This is also the fifth straight victory
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Year End Wraps: Ten Best of 2009 and Decade
10 December 2009 3:40 PM, PST
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Without having seen Avatar, I’ve posted my ten best of the year and the decade. Here’s 2009: 1) Red Cliff 2) Bright Star 3) A Serious Man 4) A Prophet 5) Up 6) Summer Hours 7) Coraline 8) The Hurt Locker 9) Up in the Air 10) An Education The best of the decade is on the jump. 1) The Best of Youth 2) No Country for Old Men 3) Wall-e 4) 25th Hour 5) A Christmas Tale 6) Talk to Her 7) A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 8) A History Of Violence 9) Spirited Away 10) Red Cliff Here are best of decade lists from EW, Paste, …
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Zenescope And Persistent Entertainment To Bring 'The Piper' To The Big Screen
3 December 2009 9:31 AM, PST
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Persistent Entertainment and Pantry Films have picked up the film rights for Zenescope Entertainment’s “The Piper”
First published in 2008, “The Piper” is a four issue miniseries by Mike Kalvoda and Axel Machain that updates the Pied Piper of Hamelin legend as a horror story. The miniseries follows a bullied high school student who discovers a way to use magic to get revenge on his classmates but gradually loses control to the spirit of the original Piper. The concept was created by Kalvoda along with Ralph Tedesco & Joe Brusha.
Tedesco & Brusha are also onboard the adaptation as executive producers, along with Persistent Entertainment’s Aaron Cruze and Pantry Films’ Dan Keston. Cruze is also attached to produce the upcoming adaptation of Image Comics’ “Ring of Roses.”
Back in 2008, Zenescope’s “Straw Men” was optioned by Benderspink — the production company behind “A History of Violence.” Zenescope’s “1001 Arabian Nights” and “The
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Five Rules For Taking War Machine Solo After 'Iron Man 2'
3 December 2009 6:29 AM, PST
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There's much ado about War Machine going on right now, and it's not hard to understand why — as you can see from the recently revealed "Iron Man 2" poster, the guy is just flat-out cool.
While "Iron Man" fans are already well aware of James "Rhodey" Rhodes, the character is set to explode even further thanks to his armored up role in "Iron Man 2," this time played by Don Cheadle. Beyond the upcoming superhero film, Cheadle is reportedly signed on for a role in "The Avengers," meaning we haven't seen the last of War Machine by a long shot.
But if the character proves popular enough, maybe Rhodey could wind up with a film franchise of his own. If that happens, here are some suggestions for how to make that "War Machine" spinoff work.
1. A History Of Violence: The good news about a "War Machine" movie is that
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Birthday Suits, An Oscar For Ed!
28 November 2009 6:20 AM, PST
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Each day we're celebriting the birth of various cinematic persons. Can someone in Hollywood please give their Oscar to Ed Harris today? I mean, my god how long does he have to wait for that damn thing? The rest of today's Sagittarians are less easy to shop for. What could we give Jon Stewart, for example, that he doesn't already have?
Ed, Laura and Jon
1896 Lilia Skala, Oscar nominated actress (Lilies of the Field)
1923 Gloria Grahame, Oscar winner (The Bad the Beautiful)
933 Hope Lange, Oscar nominated actress (Peyton Place, The Young Lions, Death Wish)
1941 Laura Antonelli, Italian actress, sex symbol
1946 Joe Dante He'll always have Gremlins, such a great 80s picture.
1949 Alexander Godunov, like Baryshnikov, he was a Russian ballet star who defected to America and co-starred in movies. It didn't go quite as well. He never achieved anything close to Misha's level of fame though he made for a memorable screen presence (Witness,
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'The Road' Explores the Knife-Edge of Human Entropy
28 November 2009 12:00 AM, PST
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The post-apocalyptic drama The Road begins with shots of barking dogs, blooming flowers, and nuzzling horses, but it is soon revealed that these everyday pleasures are fading memories for its protagonists. With a palette of grays and browns, it quickly shifts to the leafless trees and broken ground of a wasteland that has only barely survived an unnamed catastrophe. The world smolders when it doesn't all-out burn, and the vestiges of humanity struggle to survive and retain the things that made them human.
Amid bands of roving cannibals, an unnamed father (Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee, Romulus, My Father) have left their home behind and are traveling toward the coast with hopes that the warmer weather and proximity to the ocean will provide a haven. The Man remembers the world before, but The Boy was born to The Man's wife (Charlize Theron, Hancock) after the apocalypse.
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