The Dark Knight Top 10 Most Antisipated Comic Books Movies from IGN

[The Fallen]

Take a lookie: http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/723/723001p1.html

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Yeah, list got it right.

 

[CConn]

I find it sorta odd Transformers is beating TDK.

But I'll take my fanboy hat off for the evening, and not complain.

 

[deathshead2]

I find it sorta odd Transformers is beating TDK.

But I'll take my fanboy hat off for the evening, and not complain.

Yay transformers. Whoever wrote that must be a fan. I wish FF2 wasn't on the list and TMNT was further up it but whatever at least its no there.

 

[E-Mack]

Didn't know Transformers was considered a comic book franchise?

I agree with the list, besides the fact that TDK is number 3 of course. I'm pretty sure almost all the die-hard fanboys hate Michael Bay for directing this.

 

[deathshead2]

Didn't know Transformers was considered a comic book franchise?

I agree with the list, besides the fact that TDK is number 3 of course. I'm pretty sure almost all the die-hard fanboys hate Michael Bay for directing this.

Well it had many comic books so I guess there going to count it.

 

[Darth Nata]

I'm looking forward to Transformers as much as the next guy but IGN are seriously delusional if they think that it will be a better movie than TDK.

I can see the hype behind it but I also think that people will be anticpating TDK more

 

[Matis17]

I find it sorta odd Transformers is beating TDK.

Yeah, that confuses me too. But what really bothers me is that neither Sin City 2 or Hellboy 2 is on the list at all.

 

[The Fallen]

Transformer betta than Batman? I think not. But keep in mind it's closer to release and has had alot more releaased about it, like a teaser, pics, poster ect. TDK only has a name and one for sure villian, The Joker.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Transformers has massive jaw-dropping potential.

 

[Motown Marvel]

WW should be a lot higher on that list...or at least be considered more anticipated than FF4!

 

[Robin91939]

I find it odd that TRANSFORMERS is in the top 10, let alone the top 5.

I don't get the appeal, its a movie about talking fighting robots that "transform" from firetrucks and planes??? It was a KIDS cartoon, and Michael Bay is trying to do it seriously? At least TNMT is taking itself as seriously as it deserves. Can tell a cool story, with edgy effects and humor, because it's a movie about NINJA TURTLES!!! Bay is trying to be serious about giant talking ROBOTS!

Anyway, my list of top ten most anticipated comicbook based movies shapes out like this:

10.) TMNT
9.) WONDERWOMAN
8.) FANTASTIC FOUR and the SILVER SURFER
7.) THE INCREDIBLE HULK
6.) WOLVERINE
5.) SUPERMAN 2
4.) IRON MAN
3.) SIN CITY 2
2.) THE DARK KNIGHT
1.) SPIDER-MAN 3

How does this list leave off THE INCREDIBLE HULK, SUPERMAN 2, and SIN CITY 2? All have been announced, and I am going to wager most people are waiting more for these three than say, GHOST RIDER.

In conclusion, this list was pure crap.

-R

 

[E-Mack]

I find it odd that TRANSFORMERS is in the top 10, let alone the top 5.

I don't get the appeal, its a movie about talking fighting robots that "transform" from firetrucks and planes??? It was a KIDS cartoon, and Michael Bay is trying to do it seriously? At least TNMT is taking itself as seriously as it deserves. Can tell a cool story, with edgy effects and humor, because it's a movie about NINJA TURTLES!!! Bay is trying to be serious about giant talking ROBOTS!

-Batman is a troubled boy inside a man's body going around the city dressed like a flying rodent
-Superman is a grown man flying in bright red and blue tights
-Xmen are social misfits that do nothing but hide from the public and saving their asses at the same time

I could go on and on, but I'm sure you get the point. You can take anything, dumb it down, and make it seem like something stupid. I'm not defending Bay or anything, but what matters is the execution in the story. You can take the dumbest plot, but turn it into a masterpiece if you're skilled.

How does this list leave off THE INCREDIBLE HULK, SUPERMAN 2, and SIN CITY 2? All have been announced, and I am going to wager most people are waiting more for these three than say, GHOST RIDER.

The only thing we know for sure that is going ahead, is Sin City 2. Hulk and Superman are in talks for a sequel, but it's nothing official.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

How does this list leave off THE INCREDIBLE HULK, SUPERMAN 2, and SIN CITY 2?

this list does not include films like the Superman Returns sequel because it's really just speculation at this point. We're strictly counting down flicks that are already in production or some stage of legitimate development.

And a live-action Transformers has never been done. That alone gives it more potential than any movie on the list. Visually, there's even a good chance it'll be as awing as Spider-Man 3. Huge, transforming robots at war isn't very common in Hollywood. The anticipation is understandable.

 

[FCEEVIPER]

2. Transformers

A Michael Bay movie about giant robots fighting each other in the streets of America. That alone would be enough to drive most filmgoers to multiplexes on July 4, 2007 but the fact that this movie is based on a decades-old and hugely successful toy, cartoon and comic book franchise makes Transformers one of next summer's "can't miss" event movies. The casting of cartoon vet Peter Cullen as the voice of Optimus Prime only further whetted fans appetites for this movie.

I have a feeling this will stink on ice, a AVP kind of stink.

I never liked a Bay movie, and never owned a Bay movie. He will have to change my mind on this one.



Anyways good list, for the exception that the Transformers are on there. I think there may be a huge Transformers fanboy working at IGN.

 

[Robin91939]

-Batman is a troubled boy inside a man's body going around the city dressed like a flying rodent
-Superman is a grown man flying in bright red and blue tights
-Xmen are social misfits that do nothing but hide from the public and saving their asses at the same time

I could go on and on, but I'm sure you get the point. You can take anything, dumb it down, and make it seem like something stupid. I'm not defending Bay or anything, but what matters is the execution in the story. You can take the dumbest plot, but turn it into a masterpiece if you're skilled.


The only thing we know for sure that is going ahead, is Sin City 2. Hulk and Superman are in talks for a sequel, but it's nothing official.

HULK has been greenlit, has a director, title, villain and script. SIN CITY 2 has been greenlit. As far as SUPERMAN 2, it has been announced and a target date has been set, all worthy of anticipation.

As far as the TRANSFORMERS. I don't hate Bay. I like a LOT of his movies: BAD BOYS (2), ARMEGEDON, THE ISLAND, etc.

So my argument isn't there, it's just that the whole idea of giant talking robots seems outright silly to me, and I can't understand the appeal that would bring it to be the NUMBER 2 most anticipated film on that list. And on most sites, the third for next year (behind SPIDER-MAN 3 and PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: WORLD'S END).

As far as Batman, Spider-man, and X-men they have all been marketed to teenagers and up...for almost 30 years for Batman, and all of the other respected franchises life times.

Sure there have been cartoons for kids and teens, but the roots of the characters, the comics, have always been much more mature.

Transformers never had that. The shows and toys were ALWAYS marketed towards kids...I grew up during the middle and end of the "serious Transformers era"- I didn't understand it then, and I still don't.

I guess if I was born 5 years eariler I'd dig this and be beggin' for a THUNDERCATS feature film...but, luckily-I was born when I was.

So, unlike my other "directorial arguments", ala Burton, I don't hate Bay. I actually like him...it's just the material he's working with that I don't like.

Huge, transforming robots at war isn't very common in Hollywood.

Understandibly so.

-R

 

[E-Mack]

HULK has been greenlit, has a director, title, villain and script. SIN CITY 2 has been greenlit. As far as SUPERMAN 2, it has been announced and a target date has been set, all worthy of anticipation.

My mistake on Hulk 2. I forgot about the Comic-Con news. Superman 2 however, has NOT been announced. You may be mistaken because Singer mentioned he was planning to release it in 2009...IF WB gives the go ahead. But as he answered at the Comic Con panel, nothing is set in stone on that.

So my argument isn't there, it's just that the whole idea of giant talking robots seems outright silly to me, and I can't understand the appeal that would bring it to be the NUMBER 2 most anticipated film on that list.

It obviously wouldn't sit well with you since well...you don't like TF. Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean others have to share that notion.

As far as Batman, Spider-man, and X-men they have all been marketed to teenagers and up...for almost 30 years for Batman, and all of the other respected franchises life times.

Sure there have been cartoons for kids and teens, but the roots of the characters, the comics, have always been much more mature.

Transformers never had that. The shows and toys were ALWAYS marketed towards kids...I grew up during the middle and end of the "serious Transformers era"- I didn't understand it then, and I still don't.

Ok, so Bats, Supes, SM, Xmen, etc. have all been marketed towards teenagers and up. Fine.

TF was released, when? 80s? So what does that make their hardcore fans now.....late 20s-early 30s? Bam. There goes your adult audience. And kids? Well you already took care of that part for me. Talking robots duking it out is sure to be an appeal. So we have kids? Check. Teens? Check. Adults? Check. Hmm, seems like the playing field has been evened out.

 

[FCEEVIPER]

And a live-action Transformers has never been done. That alone gives it more potential than any movie on the list. Visually, there's even a good chance it'll be as awing as Spider-Man 3. Huge, transforming robots at war isn't very common in Hollywood. The anticipation is understandable.

No argument there.

But this should not be on this list, imo.

The other movies on there were comic book characters first, and the Transformers were toys first then comic books were made for them.

They shouldn't be on that list.

Don't think I'm some sort of rabid Transformers hater, I loved them since I was a kid, to the cartoons- to the toys, heck I still own like forty generation1 Transformers toys. Still my brother has a better collection than I do, he has Jetfire and the constucticons- lucky punk!

But, I have a bad feeling about a "Bay" Transformers movie.

 

[Robin91939]

TF was released, when? 80s? So what does that make their hardcore fans now.....late 20s-early 30s? Bam. There goes your adult audience. And kids? Well you already took care of that part for me. Talking robots duking it out is sure to be an appeal. So we have kids? Check. Teens? Check. Adults? Check. Hmm, seems like the playing field has been evened out.

Not particulary.

What do most kids do when they, um, grow up? Anyone? Anyone?

They grow up. So I'm gonna guess that a lot of the kids from the 80s who wore their Transfomer pajamas to bed, watched the Seavers on GROWING PAINS, while they hugged their stuffed Carebear and pretended not to like Strawberry Shortcake, and read TIGERBEAT- don't do that anymore.

I'm sure that a lot of them have realized that they matured out of it. That they outgrew it, and it didn't follow them over the years.

I mean, I grew up one like 6 big "fads":

Ghostbusters (movies and late 80's early 90's cartoon)
Ninja Turtles (movies and late 80's early 90's cartoon)
Batman (Movies and The Animated Series)
Superman (The Animated series)
Pokemon (The cartoon and Game boy games)
Spider-man (The Animated Series)

All of these shows got real popular (again, or for the first time) by the time I was 10. I dug them all. HOWEVER, it was the ones that were specifically marketed the whole time TOWARDS teenagers/adults, that allowed me to grow with them (Batman, Superman, Spider-man).

Sure, I'll probably take my little cousin (3) to see TMNT. Or I'll rent it and watch it with him when it comes out...but it isn't my most anticipated movie, or even close for that matter.

If another GHOSTBUSTER movie came out...I probably would pass (no Bill Murray?). And Pokemon? I can't even believe I liked that in the first place.

Now, I bet that a LOT of fans of Transformer "robots in desquise", think that same way about their old favorite show, that I do about mine. They grew out of them...moved on.

They might see it or take kids for the nestogia, but most will pass or wait 'till DVD rentals.

-R

 

[Robin91939]

I'm not getting this argument. It's like saying a live action "serious" POWER RANGERS movie would be anticipated....

-R

 

[E-Mack]

Not particulary.

What do most kids do when they, um, grow up? Anyone? Anyone?

They grow up. So I'm gonna guess that a lot of the kids from the 80s who wore their Transfomer pajamas to bed, watched the Seavers on GROWING PAINS, while they hugged their stuffed Carebear and pretended not to like Strawberry Shortcake, and read TIGERBEAT- don't do that anymore.

That's....great. You seem to be mixing up FADS with CULTURAL ICONS. The difference between the likes of Pokemon and Ghostbusters, with Superman and Transformers, is that the latter has staying power.

I'm sure there are still Pokemon and Ghostbusters fans out there, but it's a very small minority. However, compare that to the amount of Superman and TF fans, it's quite staggering. It's leveled off here and there, but the core fanbase is in tact. Just look at how long each of them has lasted from their origins, and you'll see the point.

All of these shows got real popular (again, or for the first time) by the time I was 10. I dug them all. HOWEVER, it was the ones that were specifically marketed the whole time TOWARDS teenagers/adults, that allowed me to grow with them (Batman, Superman, Spider-man).

How do you explain the fans that were there from the beginning? I'm talking about Batman/Superman from the 40s-60s, Spider-Man in the 60s-70s. Periods where it was ALL made for KIDS. Some probably got over it, but the hardcore fans stayed, no matter what age they were. Hell, I know someone's grandpa who is STILL a Batman fan. And he read the comics as a kid when it first got issued in '39.

Again, you're misinterpreting TF as some short fad that died out long ago. In case you didn't know, it's still been in the public eye, whether it be in tv shows or comic books. There's always been new TF material.

They might see it or take kids for the nestogia, but most will pass or wait 'till DVD rentals.

All you need to do is take a quick look at any forums relating to TF to see how that comment is completely off-base.

 

[Robin91939]

That's....great. You seem to be mixing up FADS with CULTURAL ICONS. The difference between the likes of Pokemon and Ghostbusters, with Superman and Transformers, is that the latter has staying power.

I'm sure there are still Pokemon and Ghostbusters fans out there, but it's a very small minority. However, compare that to the amount of Superman and TF fans, it's quite staggering. It's leveled off here and there, but the core fanbase is in tact. Just look at how long each of them has lasted from their origins, and you'll see the point.

It's late, so I'm just going to focus on one of your asinine statements.

You're claiming I am mistaking "FADS" with "CULTURAL ICONS". In the same paragraph you group SUPERMAN and TRANSFORMERS as "cultural icons".

And you reason? "Just look at how long each of them has lasted from their origins, and you'll see the point."

Let's look at the facts:

Leading off:
TRANSFORMERS
Original appearance: 1984
Original medium: TOYS

Where it went from there: A series of animated shows labeled under "generations". All of which lasted about 3-4 years a piece. The first lasted from '84-'87. The last series ended around 2001. Now there is a feature film set to release in 2007.

Next Up:
SUPERMAN
Original appearance: 1938
Original medium: Comics

Where it went from there: Nearly 70 years of comics running monthly. At many times more than one title running a month. A succesful live action telivsion series in the 50's starring George Reeves, Academy awarding winning animated serials, and a world famous radio show. In later years, as the comics continued, he starred in the animated series "SUPERFRIENDS". Later, he had four major motion pictures, 2 of which were major block busters. As the years went by, he starred in another HIT animated series produced by Bruce Timm, and later the widely succesfull JUSTICE LEAGUE (UNLIMIETED). In live action, Superman has lived on in the series SMALLVILLE for 5 seasons on the WB, not to mention the ever popular LOIS and CLARK: The Adventures of SUPERMAN. A string of animated movies came in the 90's. Most recently, the feature film SUPERMAN RETURNS starring Brandon Routh and Kevin Spacey.



So, which is the fad? How can Transformers TOUCH or even SMELL the level of ICONISISM (made it up I think) that Superman holds?

Transformers is on the level of POWER RANGERS. A japanese toyline made into an animated series. Each animated series' lifespan grows shorter, so they cancel and reboot every few years with new characters- thus, a new toyline. A cheap but profitable marketing ploy.

Never claim that Transformers isn't a fad, because that is exactly what it is, Superman, is a cultural icon. I know the difference, do you?


ps: Also, notice when I typed in what "fads" I grew up during- I put the word "fad" in quotations. I wasn't saying that Batman, Superman, and Spider-man were fads. I was just stating that they were all things that got popular at that time, and for lack of a better word, that group in the 90's were fads. In the grad scheme of things....only 3 of those 6 turned out to be fads.

-R

 

[Poetic Chaos]

I'm not getting this argument. If you laid the basic synopsis for the movies side by side it would be:

1) bat-themed vigilante vs. killer clown

2) Transforming robot war on earth

I'd say the latter easily has more to work with in terms of entertainment potential. It just makes sense to me that way.

 

[Robin91939]

I'm not getting this argument. If you laid the basic synopsis for the movies side by side it would be:

1) bat-themed vigilante vs. killer clown

2) Transforming robot war on earth

I'd say the latter easily has more to work with in terms of entertainment potential. It just makes sense to me that way.

You see though, Batman CAN be broken down to something that simple, but it can also be fleshed out and made complex. The presentation of Transformers that you just stated, is about as COMPLEX as it gets for that movie.

There are no real characters, no emotion, no complexity, and no real themes. Batman has those things, which again, is what has made the likes of Batman and Superman cultural icons and things like Transformers, PowerRangers and Pokemon- well, fads.

-R

 

[Poetic Chaos]

I think it comes back down to my original point: it's never been done.

How many actors have portrayed Batman and the Joker over the years?

Transformers is breaking new ground for the first time in it's history. No one knows who it's gonna be marketed for. No one knows how the characters are going to be fleshed out. Batman can be fleshed out because he already has been. Same can be done for Transformers. The movie is a big question mark and that builds anticipation like nothing else.