ITT movies most people don't know were based on comics.
>>83092589
needs a laughing evans edit with "Sidepiercer"
>>83092655
When the C4 is about to go off?
>>83092395
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.
The average /co/mrade 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.
>>83093246
This blew my mind when I found out.
>>83093359
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.
>>83093246
But it says in the opening credits:
>Based on the comic by Marvel
How did people not notice that?
>>83093011
Which was better, the comic or the movie?
>>83093011
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.
>>83092395
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 asMonkeybone took control of Stu's body in the real worldthe 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.
>>83093548
They're both fantastic, but the movie had a better endng
>>83093522
really? Is the original comic any good? I have fond memories of that movie
>>83093683
It's based on Flaming Carrot Comics and the associated Mysterymen characters in that.
Very good.
>>83093522
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
>>83093503
Wasn't it by Malibu?
>>83093800
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.
>>83093791
>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.
>>83093840
Malibu was under Marvel.
>>83093919
Yeah but I don't know if it's popular knowledge now. Same with Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
>>83093359
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?
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)
>>83094054
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.
>>83092395
A History of Violence
>>83094245
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb3TWNzMSr0
>>83093586
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!
>>83092395
http://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge
>>83094496
>Gulliver's Travels is the first novel
I'm not even /lit/, but my fucking blood went cold.
>>83094496
Reminds me of that literary award that changed its rules almost literally the day after an issue of Sandman won best short story.
>>83094496
>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.
>>83094639
>>83094750
>>83094824
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.
>>83092395
Literally anything that isn't cape.
>>83094054
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.
>>83095396
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.
>>83093984
so people even know the addams now?
>>83093338
Sadly, he accidentally died by a blank gun was mistaken during acting film.
this shitty movie out of a good comic
>>83093503
They probably didn't pay attention to the credits.
>>83097885
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.
>>83093594
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
>>83093338
Where do you live where there is still an actual goth community?
>>83097991
IMAGINE
>>83097991
That movie is fucking hilarious, though.
>>83097991
Great creature designs though.
>>83092395
>IIT movies most people don't know
fix'd
>>83094245
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.
>>83097991
Never heard of this. Worth a watch or read and which should I do first?
>>83094496
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
>>83093503
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.
>>83093586
Wow they did a very good job of hiding it's origins then
>>83093011
Got any specific examples sounds interesting
>>83094054
Wait I always thought those were comics made for the show
Explains the consistently high sales
>>83095105
Well Lolita is pretty good but to go insulting people if they don't praise it is pretty retarded.
>>83094584
whatttttttttttttttttttttttttt
why does Miller keep getting movies
>>83093939
Does anyone really care about All Star these days aside from memesters?
>>83094584
Holy shit this has been going since 1995
Holy shit 1995 was over 20 years ago
>>83100679
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.
>>83100747
People who were in highschool in the late 90s
"based on" is a loose term
>>83100787
Wow he sounds like a fucking faggot
>>83100787
'least I got a HS teacher that loved the Decameron and the 1001 nights
>>83100725
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.
>>83094750
Absolutely love it.
>>83100659
Nope. The Walking Dead comic predates the TV show by seven years. The show itself is based on the comic.
>>83101081
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.
>>83101462
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.
>>83101519
I should clarify. The comic isn't great. It's just better than the movie.
>>83092395
This movie should have been literal porn featuring Rose McGowan.
laughing_millar_rolling_in_money.jpg
>>83101788
God the RED movies were so fucking bad. Was the comic any good?
>>83101903
It's a Warren Ellis comic that should tell you.
>>83101903
I didn't mind the first one. Although I have only watched it the once, many years ago. What was wrong with it?
>>83092395 (OP)
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
