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Originally Posted by FngKestrel
Greatest comic book movies? What kind of criteria are you using to determine greatness?
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Whatever criteria one wants to use when determining the quality of a movie. Faithfulness to the source material is one aspect, mentioned by another poster, but I'd add in the look of the movie (cinematography), the quality of the performances, how interesting and/or compelling the plot is, whether the charactes well well defined or flat, the music, the overall entertainment value.
The way I did it was I looked at all the movies I knew of that were adapted from comics, and then attempted to judge the quality of the movie based on it's own merit alone, without reference to the comics from which it was adapted. This isn't always possible; someone whose read as many Spider-Man and X-Men comics as I have can't completely divorce preconceived notions of how the characters should be from her judgement. For example, I loved the X-Men movies, but think that Wolverine played much too central a role in them. He's overexposed in the comics as it is, and the best X-Men comics come from the early New X-Men days, the Byrne/Claremont era when it was a single book and a true ensemble piece. So I was a bit dissapointed that they made Wolverine the central character, but nonetheless think they did an excellent job.
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I didn't even realize that Road to Perdition was a comic book.
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It was a graphic novel from 1998, later split up into smaller volumes and republished to coincide with the movie. More recently, there have been three smaller sequels to fill in a gap in the time sequence.