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What are the best comic book adaptations? Not best movies, but closest adaptations.
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The earliest episodes are very faithful from what I’ve seen. Later ones take a lot of liberties or are in-name-only "adaptations."
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Ironically Snyder's best movie too.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tMlMi4OJUo
Also,
>No Clint Eastwood to play Hartigan.
>Best adaptation.
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One of the best comic adaptations of all time. A beautiful love letter from Warren Beatty, who was a fan of the strips as a kid, and still clearly loves the character.
Cynical critics ripped into it as a vanity project because of atty being too old and Madonna being cast when he was dating her, but they did well in their roles.
The set design is just magnificent, it feels like a comic while still not feeling jeering. The movie works because it understands the heart and soul of the material and respects it.
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Probably this one.
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Really don't get the glazing of Sin City, it was cool don't get me wrong but basically a short.
Get it might have been pricy effect wise for its time with all the noir black and white shit but don't think it merited the Theatre treatment, glad I got it on DvD though.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
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>>152368453
This is actually a very close approximation of an early 80s goofy Superman comic. The way computers figure into the plot also manages to evoke the Tandy and Radio Shack ads that were ubiquitous in comics of the era.
I’d give honorable mentions to The Rocketeer and the first TMNT.
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>>152373223
This specifically isnt a “close” adaptation though. None of the DC Animated movies are good adaptations frankly. TDKR, Long Halloween, Killing Joke, New Frontier, Year One, Allstar Superman, Hush. They’re all awful.
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The Superboy tv show used some actual comic book writers. Mixed bag (especially in the fist two seasons) but some very good episodes later in the run.
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Punisher War Zone. I will be the first to admit the story wasn’t great. But everything else was something straight out of Marvel MAX.
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>>152368453
Garfield had strips compiled into several books by the time this show was released.
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This website points out all the scenes and elements the movie took from the comics:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250318013657/https://www.batman-online.c om/forum/index.php?topic=2253.0