Which of the following do you consider comicbook-style movies?

[Kevin Roegele]

Add any you can think of as well.

RoboCop trilogy
The Matrix trilogy
Escape from LA
Van Helsing
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Moonraker
Underworld and Underworld:Evolution
Dark City
Ultraviolet
Aeon Flux
Highlander II
The Chronicles of Riddick
Kill Bill 1 (Tarantino calls it, "My comicbook movie")
Terminator 2

 

[blind_fury]

Darkman
Predator
Equilibrium
Big Trouble in Little China

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Darkman
Predator
Equilibrium
Big Trouble in Little China

Stuff like Darkman and Sky High is a given, but Equilibrium, eh? Intresting.

Predator is very comicbook when you think about it. Good call.

 

[The Chairman]

The Star Wars series. I get a graphic novel feel from them.

 

[Mrh7448]

Indiana Jones

 

[Chris Wallace]

I disagree on Rambo & Escape From LA; I don't think they qualify. I do think the other 2 Terminators do, though.

 

[Mrh7448]

La Femme Nikita and the Professional

Wasabi

 

[Kevin Roegele]

The Star Wars series. I get a graphic novel feel from them.

If you look at all the Kirby sci-fi/fantasy stuff from the 60's, it was obviously a huge influence on Star Wars. Doctor Doom especially, and also the fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants adventures with bickering and humour of the Fantastic Four.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I disagree on Rambo & Escape From LA; I don't think they qualify. I do think the other 2 Terminators do, though.

Rambo (the second one) is about as 2D as you can get, and Rambo himself is a one-man army - to a ridiculous extent. He goes into Vietnam by himself and destroys everybody.

Escape from LA screams comicbook to me....the sci-fi set up, the holograms, the crumbling city full of cartoony weirdos, the paragliding finale, Snake himself is like Nick Fury crossed with Wolverine....and so on.

I don't see T1 as comicbook, it's really a tense horror thriller. T2 has a superhero and supervillain, and a broader canvas.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

What about Face/Off?

 

[November Rain]

is this pretty much saying any action or scif fi based film is automatically comic book in style?

 

[WallCrawl]

is this pretty much saying any action or scif fi based film is automatically comic book in style?

Ones with fantastic (as in fantasy) elements similar to those you'd find in a superhero comic, then yes I guess.

 

[November Rain]

meh, i think this thread is putting two big genre of things into pidgeon holes...

i see this thread mostly as what films would make good comics and i don't think the translation from film to media is that easy.

also not all comics are violent fantasy based

 

[WallCrawl]

meh, i think this thread is putting two big genre of things into pidgeon holes...

i see this thread mostly as what films would make good comics and i don't think the translation from film to media is that easy.

also not all comics are violent fantasy based

That's my issue as well, actually.

 

[Isildur´s Heir]

Unbreakable
Waterworld
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Ghostbusters

And, what do you mean comicbook-style?
Because, when you have Ghost World, A History of Violence and Road to Perdition, any movie can be comicbook-style.
If you mean superhero, well, any movie that has a larger-than-life main character or a larger-than-life situation, or both

 

[Kevin Roegele]

is this pretty much saying any action or scif fi based film is automatically comic book in style?

No, it's identifying which movies have a comicbook style.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

And, what do you mean comicbook-style?

You know................I can't put it into words. lol

I guess what you'd call larger than life, with over-the-top action scenes and heroics and verging on the fantastical or sci-fi. And a sense of fun and adventure that overides attention to realism.

 

[November Rain]

but again, not all comic books are like that.

 

[The Kid]

All the matrix movies. They capture special moments during action like in a superman comic or something like that does, since it's basically a bunch of drawings, you have the opportunity to see a specific moment captured in a panel that would otherwise zoom by in real life. In the matrix, of course it was bullet time. Plus the cam angles reminded me of how I've seen some scenes drawn in comics. I'm thinking now, that maybe the matrix movies have had as big an influence on comicbook movies as comicbooks probably had on it. interesting...