X-Men (2000)
Upon first hearing of this project I was skeptical, since it seemed virtually impossible to cram almost 40 years of comic book mythos and the dozens of main characters that are a staple of...
Tagged: Based on a comic book
Judge Dredd (1995)
Warden: “So, tell me, Rico, what’s the meaning of life?” Rico: “It ends.” The above passage of dialogue could just as aptly be applied to answer what the meaning of the movie is. Judge...
Elektra (2005)
In the comic book world, Elektra has always been more of a third-tier “superhero,” who has had her purpose and enjoyed a brief moment in the spotlight due to her philandering with a well-known...
Barb Wire (1996)
Barb Wire starts off with an inspired but bewildering inclusion of Gun’s cover of Cameo’s funk classic “Word Up!” while Pamela Anderson Lee (“Baywatch”) dances around, displaying her well-crafted assets, and you’d begin to...
The Punisher (2004)
While I am a comic book fan, and I have collected many issues of Marvel’s “The Punisher” and some of its offshoot titles, I do feel that the character’s limitations make it a weak...
Monkeybone (2001)
Monkeybone is a headscratcher of a film; you may laugh your ass off or you may stare in bewilderment, and at the end, you will probably not know for sure what to make of it. ...
Road to Perdition (2002)
Following up an Academy Award winner isn’t an easy thing to do as a director, as the expectation level rises immensely. This is even more true when that Oscar-winner is also your first directorial...
Ghost World (2001)
Five years after giving us the quirky Crumb, director Terry Zwigoff delivers another batch of off-beat goodness in Ghost World. The film is based on the small press comic book of the same name by Daniel Clowes,...
The Mask (1994)
Jim Carrey (Dumb & Dumber, Batman Forever) stars as bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss, a nice guy, but also, a total loser. One day, Stanley stumbles across a strange wooden mask which turns out to have...
Black Mask (1996)
After all but one of a team of professional assassins known as Squad 701 are killed off by the government, the survivor known as Black Mask (Jet Li, The Legend II) hides out and takes a...