Which comic adaptation is the most unfaithful?

[The Question]

5. Constantly prays or speaks to God. Last I checked The Punisher doesn't give a **** what God thinks about what he does. Not to mention when he does this he is butt naked in a sewer. Seems more like it should be a Ninja Turtle movie.

Before his family was killed, he was going to become a preist. He's very deeply religious. Whenever he's about to kill alot of people, he goes into a church and asks God to forgive him for what he feels has to be done.

 

[Lex Luthor]

Definately Halle Berry's Catwoman.

 

[KenK]

Catwoman doesn't have cat like traits and abilities? Of course she does. She's Catwoman. Agile, sleek, slinky, prowls around at night, has claws, walks by herself...

Did she get these abilites by dying and being revived by a cat god?!? NO! Her powers have never been supernatural.

Desire to be independent? That's what Catwoman is all about. Check The Long Halloween, or Hush. Catwoman flirts with Batman, and will help him on occasion, but won't let him be in charge, and won't join his team.

At least in Batman Returns, THERE WAS BATMAN!! Their whole relationship is based on them challenging each other. Catwoman, even as her own character has to have some grounding with where she was established. The filmmakers could have easily had Selina Kyle establishing herself in Los Angeles, if they were so desperate to change the location, but still make reference to Gotham.

In the comics, Holly Robinson is now Catwoman. If the comics have a right to assign the identity to another character, why do the movies not have the same right?

Because there was no reason for it! Aside from the convoluted hogwash about other women through history being imbued with cat powers!! That's not Catwoman, that's Witchblade!

 

[Cyrusbales]

Steel and catwoman easily take the biscuit here!

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Did she get these abilites by dying and being revived by a cat god?!? NO! Her powers have never been supernatural.

I know-! I'm not saying there are no differences between movie and the comic, of course there are and I'm all too aware of them. I'm saying there are similarities.

Because there was no reason for it! Aside from the convoluted hogwash about other women through history being imbued with cat powers!! That's not Catwoman, that's Witchblade!

The reason for it is that the makers wanted to create a new version of Catwoman for the big screen. That's perfectly valid. Catwoman has changed repeatedly in the comics over the years, she began as simply a non-athletic jewel thief with no costume. Now she's completely different. If the Catwoman in the comics became the Halle Berry version, then you couldn't complain it wasn't faithful to the source material.

It's a crap film, but not simply because it's not faithful to the comic. Terrible script, 2D characters, lame bad guys, poor performances from everyone except Halle Berry, awful action, PS2 quality CGI.

 

[KenK]

I would argue that given the popularity of Catwoman as a solo character over the last decade, as far as the comics is concerned, A closer adaptation would have made more sense, even if you only had the last ten years to go off of.

 

[RedIsNotBlue]

Didn't like the first draft of Catwoman turn out really good and down the line it got ****ed up into what we got?? I remember reading something about that a while back.

 

[mister Lennon]

Halle berry was terrible in catwoman. Her performance was a joke. Her copycat of female clark kent or Michelle Pfeiffer's selina kyle was awful.

 

[KenK]

Nobody beats Pfieffer's Selina! I'd pay $2.95 a minute to hear her say things that are illegal if done in third-world countries!

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I would argue that given the popularity of Catwoman as a solo character over the last decade, as far as the comics is concerned, A closer adaptation would have made more sense, even if you only had the last ten years to go off of.

From a business perspective, sure. Also from a business perspective - Warner Bros - Halle Berry (very popular) in a superhero movie (very popular) makes sense than trying to stick rigidly to a comicbook that is only read by a few thousand every month.

 

[Superhobo]

Catwoman

Steel

Catman

 

[3dman27]

Catwoman

Steel

Catman

cat MAN?

 

[Kevin Roegele]

cat MAN?

Yeah, the movies are way off, they make him into a bat instead.

 

[3dman27]

Yeah, the movies are way off, they make him into a bat instead.

i'm afraid you lost me

 

[KenK]

From a business perspective, sure. Also from a business perspective - Warner Bros - Halle Berry (very popular) in a superhero movie (very popular) makes sense than trying to stick rigidly to a comicbook that is only read by a few thousand every month.

With that assbackwards logic, it's a miracle comic book movies like Sin City or Hellboy or Ghost World, ever got made at all.

And there's a big difference between sticking rigidly to the comics, and changing almost EVERY ASPECT OF THE CHARACTER!!!

 

[Chris Wallace]

Quite true. The only thing they kept intact was her arsenal.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

With that assbackwards logic, it's a miracle comic book movies like Sin City or Hellboy or Ghost World, ever got made at all.

Yet that's the Hollywood logic. You know Hellboy almost ended up as a Vin Diesel action vehicle?