ITT movies most people don't know were based on comics

ITT movies most people don't know were based on comics.

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needs a laughing evans edit with "Sidepiercer"

When the C4 is about to go off?

A History of Violence.

Fun fact: the producers did everything in their power to hide the fact that it was based on a comic in their marketing.

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The average Sup Forumsmrade knows, but I hang out in the goth community and when I show most of them my copy of the comic it blows their minds.

This blew my mind when I found out.

It's not a bad mistake, the movie has basically nothing to do with the comic besides the name and the very basics of the premise, the comic is a sort of supernatural almost horror with some dark comedy elements, and the movie has Will Smith.

But it says in the opening credits:

>Based on the comic by Marvel

How did people not notice that?

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Which was better, the comic or the movie?

In high school I took a Film as Literature class, the teacher loved that movie so much that there was a whole week of study on it. Later on we did a section on adapted work from plays and novels. I asked him why he didn't talk about Road to Perdition during that section too and he had no idea it was based on a comic. He'd been teaching about that movie for years.

I watched this movie tonight for the first time, knowing practically nothing about it other than it had terrible reviews and everyone hated it.

For the first half, I actually thought it was great and I didn't understand why so many people hated it. I was ready to call it an underrated gem that deserved more recognition, but then as soon as Monkeybone took control of Stu's body in the real world the movie went to shit and actually got progressively worse all the way to the very end, by which at that point it was unbearable.

It was such a depressing waste of potential.

They're both fantastic, but the movie had a better endng

really? Is the original comic any good? I have fond memories of that movie

It's based on Flaming Carrot Comics and the associated Mysterymen characters in that.

Very good.

I wonder if this movie would've fared better if it was released today in this new superhero movie age.

Nowadays people might recognize it more because of the All Star music video than anything.

Cheating with a tv show

Wasn't it by Malibu?

At the time that the Addams Family was aired, most people knew that it was based on comics from the New Yorker. I'm not sure this counts.

>Nowadays people might recognize it more because of the All Star music video than anything.

Actually, it seems most people associate All Star with Shrek even though Mystery Men used it first and the All Star music video literally has scenes from Mystery Men.

Malibu was under Marvel.

Yeah but I don't know if it's popular knowledge now. Same with Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

Same here especially considering the fact that the movie has NOTHING to do with the comic with the exception of some of the Agents names.

Honestly I like both versions.

Not a movie, but how many people realize The Walking Dead is based on a comic series?

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Kingsman? And I kinda want to say Dredd and Scott Pilgrim( cause people I've met thought it was based on the video game cause of the references)

Not many. I have friends who are surprised when I tell them TWD is a comic.

Then they drop it when I tell them Daryl isn't in it. I like Daryl, but the comic is pretty good on it's own merits.

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The Scott Pilgrim movie wasn't that popular and most people knew of the comics. I don't think many people knew it was named after a song though. Bryan Lee O'Malley was friends with one of the band members.

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I had a similar English Literature Professor who adored Maus and said it was the first comic to win literary awards.

I pointed out that actually both The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen had won literary awards before Maus.

He was a fuckhead though he thought taste was objective and fanboyed about Nabakov hard while hating Joyce.

He also said other dumb shit like:

>Gulliver's Travels is the first novel

What about medieval romances.... Or, you know Don Quixote? Fuck, what about The Golden Ass in Ancient fucking Rome?!

Fuck that guy. I still hate and despise him as a teacher!

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>Gulliver's Travels is the first novel
I'm not even /lit/, but my fucking blood went cold.

Reminds me of that literary award that changed its rules almost literally the day after an issue of Sandman won best short story.

>giving a shit about what college English or Creative Writing have to say
Half the time they're retarded. I had one of the latter who was one of those, "Marvel has heroes people can relate to," people. Didn't know what he was talking about with superheroes at all, though I do think he admitted that he didn't really read comic books.

You see I kind of got it when he said Maus was the first comic to win a literary award because I just figured the guy didn't read comics.

And then he went into Nabakov and how Lolita is the best novel ever and if you don't LOVE Lolita and Nabakov you're a bad person who's dumb. Also, he said he weird thing about how human eyes effect literary criticism or some shit, it was really fucking weird.

Then he said Gulliver's Travels was the first novel and I just stopped going to his lectures, and didn't take any classes with him as a teacher for the rest of my degree.

Literally anything that isn't cape.

Is it REALLY based on the comic, or is it multi-media? Because if it's a separate story, I wouldn't consider it an adaptation in light of the game.

The comic came first. The story of the game and anything else that doesn't follow the book's plot/characters or whatever is a spinoff of the original property.

so people even know the addams now?

Sadly, he accidentally died by a blank gun was mistaken during acting film.

this shitty movie out of a good comic

They probably didn't pay attention to the credits.
It's weird because that's how his dad almost died the first time in Game of Death.
Or am I mixing up movies, either way I know there was a movie where Bruce Lee gets shot on a movie set by a prop gun tampered with by triads.
Coincidence? Almost definitely.

The first half is great Everything that happens when Stu is in the coma is fantastic but yeah id does kind of devolve int fart jokes about halfway through

Still I remember loving it as a kid and for me its still in that weird nostalgic place in your head where you defend it even when you know its dumb

Where do you live where there is still an actual goth community?

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IMAGINE

That movie is fucking hilarious, though.

Great creature designs though.

>IIT movies most people don't know
fix'd

I've never met anyone that knew Dredd was based on comics, they either thought it was original or a remake of that Stallone movie which they think is original. But I'm American, isn't Dredd primarily UK? The comics have been in my backlog forever.

Never heard of this. Worth a watch or read and which should I do first?

I actually had an (A Level) English Lit teacher who loved Watchmen and brought it up as one of his favourite books.
We were actually studying Dubliners by Joyce at the time iirc

I never knew until like maybe 6 yrs ago and sometimes after the first time I am not as attentive during the opening of a movie or series so unless I'm watching it for the first time again about 10 yrs later everything early on is ignored.

Wow they did a very good job of hiding it's origins then

Got any specific examples sounds interesting

Wait I always thought those were comics made for the show
Explains the consistently high sales

Well Lolita is pretty good but to go insulting people if they don't praise it is pretty retarded.

whatttttttttttttttttttttttttt

why does Miller keep getting movies

Does anyone really care about All Star these days aside from memesters?

Holy shit this has been going since 1995
Holy shit 1995 was over 20 years ago

I'm not even saying Lolita is bad. I liked it.

But to actually say in a lecture theater (in a room full of 200+) that if you don't believe Lolita is the best piece of literature ever you aren't intelligent is such fucking bad teaching.

He's also saying that if you like Joyce you're dumb. He was a BAD teacher.

But he's got tenure at Auckland University.

People who were in highschool in the late 90s

"based on" is a loose term

Wow he sounds like a fucking faggot

'least I got a HS teacher that loved the Decameron and the 1001 nights

Because their better than their comic counter parts.

Kick Ass is one of my favourite movies but I couldn't get passed the fucking first page of the comic.

Absolutely love it.

Nope. The Walking Dead comic predates the TV show by seven years. The show itself is based on the comic.

You have terrible taste. The comic is so much better than the movie.
The entire premise is that it is grounded in reality, and then the movie throws in fucking jet packs, and Dave is just instantly okay with killing people, and of course gets the girl.
Comic version, he gets fucked up, has a hard fucking time killing, and the girl dumps him and ends by sending him a pic of her getting fucked by a big black guy.

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Because Millar puts his fetishes into everything and can't right a decent teenager to save his life.

The first panel is Dave describing himself as the most unlikeable jackass in history.

I should clarify. The comic isn't great. It's just better than the movie.

This movie should have been literal porn featuring Rose McGowan.

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God the RED movies were so fucking bad. Was the comic any good?

It's a Warren Ellis comic that should tell you.

I didn't mind the first one. Although I have only watched it the once, many years ago. What was wrong with it?

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I remember seeing this movie on comedy central back in middle school. Looking back on it now i think it was what had inspired me to write a short story about a man in a coma that meets his own personal god. If anyone is interested in reading it, I'll put it up in a pastebin when i get out of work.

Blew my mind