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want to break down the most accurate comic book movies which implies both reading the
comics and watching the movie now some of these I haven't seen in a while but from memory these are
I think the 10 most accurate comic book movies please do like subscribe hit that Bell if you
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foreign number 10 a very accurate representation of the character and a very accurate
representation of the stories around the storyline but not a direct adaptation of one comic through
line making this kind of a tricky thing but I've got Batman Begins Batman Begins is a very good
after adaptation of year one it's a very good adaptation of young Bruce Wayne which has been
told in so many different storylines and it's a very accurate Bruce Wayne but in the comic books
there isn't a Razzle ghoul switch there isn't uh there's more ducares there's more certain things
but to me this established Gotham this established the loss of his family this established all that
year one this established the tone the closest to most of the Batman mythology that I'd ever
seen and I consider this one of the most accurate comic adaptations because it gets who Bruce and
Batman are very early and very quickly this is 300 uh number nine is 300. that movie changed a
lot of things and doesn't get enough credit Zack Snyder made a movie that was almost a storyboard
use of the comic book like that is a frame for frame Recreation he really played with
the palette he played with the edit he played with the sound design he did a lot of things
to put you in the world of 300 Frank Miller who wrote and Illustrated 300 was also very Hands-On
they collaborated and it shows Frank Miller and Zack Snyder I think are the duo that goes
like Hey we're gonna do this thing that's gonna be adapting but also translating but it's gonna work
and I don't think a lot of other Duos have really done that and I will say I think Zack Snyder when
you want something translated by way of putting it into another medium he's the guy because he's
three of these on this list next up at number eight we have dread the newest iteration of
dread yes the Stallone one's a fun time but the newest dread is the comic book Carl Irvin looks
like he was ripped right out of that page I loved that with Olivia Thirlby as like the new recruit
I love that it felt like we were living in the comic sometimes feels like a video game and the
movie felt more like a video game adaptation than a lot of video game adaptations because that's
what the comic felt like a lot of the time I love the use of slow-mo I love the editing thing that
made it feel like you were going into a comic book frame I love the pacing that made it feel
like certain action set pieces were Pages flipping this all very very clearly becomes the comic book
flavor you want out of something that's so pulp no worry like Dread and Carl Urban absolutely
nailed it love this movie my number is 2004's Hellboy now this movie kind of proved that this
is the way to do it when 2019's Hellboy was a direct translation what's important in making
comic book movies is making sure it's a comic book movie which needs to be both an adaptation and a
translation which is why for example Civil War is not much like the comic book but it works in the
medium of film Hellboy the original showed what you need to gather the tone to get the world to
make the bprd work to get all the the underground paranoia the world of Monsters the Guillermo del
Toro of it all versus trying to make a frame by frame comparison which is what they did in the
2019 Hellboy ironically what works for Zack Snyder and Frank Miller team up or Zack Snyder working
off you know Alan Moore's work is he makes the medium of film through the comic book Lens whereas
I feel like when you're trying to translate too directly it's trying to film a frame of comic book
and there's a big difference Hellboy the original is a pitch perfect example of how you capture a
world how you grow out a world and you make it fit in your medium using your skill set if you cast
correctly and you have the most incredible team of special effects artists assembled love o Force
Hellboy number six remember remember the fifth of November I think V for Vendetta the graphic novel
is one of the most important and I think the movie is also one of the movies that established that
comic book movies aren't just for kids and I think that's a really important distinction the adult
maturity intellectualism and and progress that V for Vendetta made cannot be shortchanged like the
wachowskis produced this film and they used a lot of their incredible sensibilities to make this a
giant spectacle and the trailers very much leaned into the Hugo weaving of it all and the incredible
knife play and Natalie Portman but if you look at the actual movie it's talking about very real
very adult things it's talking about overthrowing a government it's talking about fascism it's talk
betting and dictator state so it's able to do what comic books do well which is be action-packed have
interesting characters and yes [ __ ] Bros on the internet be political comic books are inherently
political V for Vendetta does an incredible job being political being intelligent showing its
perspective but also being action-packed enough and in this case following the comic enough
that is one one of the most direct incredible adaptations one of the most accurate adaptations
of any book to screen number five we are back to the world of Zack Snyder and this one is tricky
and this one is probably gonna get me some comic book Kickback because this one is very accurate
for 95 of the time that last five percent is a huge change that is Watchmen Watchmen change
the ending of the most important graphic novel of all time but it did to make it work for the medium
and I would not change that I love that the show that just came out on HBO Max that's long form
went back to the original ending and was able to because it's adapting the book it's not adapting
this movie it's adapting where the book left off but since it had long form it was able to explain
the squids it was able to live in that world what I love about what Zack Snyder did with Watchman
is I felt like I was living the comic book and then I got to be surprised but it still had the
emotional resonance it still had the impact it still had the ending it still did what the book
did but it adapted it it evolved it for the medium I'm not saying of all isn't better I'm saying it
it turned it into the medium of filmmaking now it was perfectly cast the special effects still
hold up and it looks incredible they use the comic books basically as a framework it grabbed frames
and somehow translated them to scream and it did a really cool thing with sound design and music like
Smashing Pumpkins songs to this day makes me think of Watchmen because it was so that world and it
was so paranoid and it was so about what happens when the world goes wrong and it makes me feel
like who watches the Watchmen it makes me feel like that sense of dread and I think this movie
is incredible and I think the ending change Works which is why it makes my most accurate
adaptations list because it is accurate to the comics in how it changed number four is a weird
tie because I don't know how to count we got two movies one of them is getting this love because it
is an incredible adaptation of the energy of the comic and also uses the frame so that is one way
I see adaptation work and that is Scott Pilgrim versus the world Scott Pilgrim versus the world
feels exactly like the comic the other one tied at number four is a very different movie out together
but just as colorful and that is Spider-Man into the spider-verse the reason I'm picking Spider-Man
into the spider-verse is it adapts the characters so incredibly well while not following the comic
book storyline it is accurate to Peter Parker is it is accurate who spidergwen is it is accurate to
Miles Morales is it brings us Miles Morales and it does so while explaining quantum theory and giving
us 10 other Spider-Man while never sacrificing who miles is while giving us a miles origin story
so what's interesting to me about into the spider-verse is it's incredibly accurate to
miles but it's not the spider verse Story in the comics there's no more Lin there's no uh Spider
totems all that might come into play and across the spider-verse but I doubt it all of those
things are so accurate to the comic books and it is the most accurate for me of the animated films
because it literally feels like you're turning the page of a comic book The Animation style
all of those elements make these both some of the most accurate visual translations of a comic book
I've ever seen and they're both very special for changing the game the cacophony of Edgar Scott
Pilgrim cannot be like denied like what it did to change editing and all those things and the
visual aesthetic and editing and stylistic choices across the spider into the spider-verse are going
to resonate through animation for the rest of time and it feels just like a comic so these two tied
at number four I'm making the list I can make my own when this movie came out it was everywhere
and does not get the love it used to and it should and I think that's because the sequel kick ass one
is the comic book with big daddy Nick Cage you change what the comic book was because now you
hear Nick Cage when you read it because they were so accurate to what that book was it played with
the Beats it played with the friendship it found sets that looked just like John meter Jr drawings
it went frame by frame but what it did was it let the edit of the movie not make it feel like it was
too beholden to the comic book so it's accurate to the comic book and it uses the elements it uses
the pacing but it's not trapped in any sort of way this is Johnny Jr is one of my favorite artists of
all time this is the closest we will ever see to the very iconic genre meter Junior Splash Pages
his framing his choices I think the casting is second to none when you look back at Chloe Grace
Moretz as hit girl that was all anyone was talking about that entire summer when you look at what we
first got the introduction of Adrian Taylor Johnson as Kick-Ass and that's not to mention
again the Batman Adam West take that Nicholas Cage did as Big Daddy I think it elevated the
comic book the comic was already exceptional the movie made it even better because of how accurate
it was to the comic book that when you read the comic back it changes your whole experience and
I think this movie uh doesn't get enough love in the modern conversation alright this one is very
interesting in assessing it because this one does not follow any direct comic book storyline but it
changed the comic books because of how accurate it was to the character I don't know that there's
ever or at least not since Iron Man Downey Jr had there been a comic book character change in the
comic books because of the actor and that is Ryan reynolds's Deadpool for years they kept writing
Ryan Reynolds into Deadpool jokes because they were trying to get this movie made there's a Joe
Oak in one of the early Deadpool comics saying that the Wade Wilson looks like Ryan Reynolds
crossed with a radioactive Sharpay for years they were trying to get this going but then after this
movie the character is written especially the Jerry Duggan stuff the Brian passane
stuff it sounds like the Ryan Reynolds sensibility because this is accurate to the comics because it
distilled so much Deadpool down into one perfect thing this took 30 years of Deadpool comics and it
found his Beating Heart Deadpool is interesting because he's one of the only Heroes that wears
a mask not to protect his identity but he's protecting your stomach from his horrendous face
his his dignity his shame and his use of Comedy as a defense mechanism were all found in this
one beautiful story where it's a story about love it's a story about cancer it's a story about loss
but it's a goddamn superhero story with Quentin Tarantino action set pieces and lots and lots
of Dick jokes this is a movie that means you can watch a pegging sequence on Disney plus right now
that is more accurate that some of the comic books were about the very same character and it changed
the comic books going forward Deadpool I think is not just one of the most accurate comic book
adaptations but it's one of the most important and I think when you look at R-rated superhero movies
that came out after Deadpool it owes them a lot of thanks and I'm really excited and hopeful we'll
get to see something like that with Deadpool in the MCU I think they will be as accurate as this
first one because of how much Kevin feige loves the comics and because of Ryan Reynolds love for
this character but I'm really curious to see what that looks like in a new world in this shared MCU
so keep it accurate keep it awesome Deadpool's my number two and my number one is actually
probably gonna be a little shorter than some of my rest because it just does all of the things
I've described and it mixes in really cool medium choices in its flourish of black and white with
color and that is Sin City it uses the beautiful Noir style of filmmaking that the comic books
resonate with and adds the color much like the comics do but it does it in a way that it feels
like when you're reading a comic book and you're letting your imagination go how you're flipping
between panels This captures that sometimes in frame rate sometimes in an edit sometimes I an
acting choice but this truly feels like reading a comic almost as much as into the spider-verse
does this is with live action actors the closest thing I can describe to people that have never
enjoyed comic books you're in a world that is so fleshed out every supporting character matters
just as much as the lead every lead is exactly who they feel like on the pulpiness of the page you
can smell these frames and it's all authentically Frank Miller it's all exactly what the book feels
like it's Ultra violent it's interesting it's empathetic you care and still everyone's at an 11.
everyone is larger than life everyone is in the world of Sin City just as Sin City changed comic
books Sin City changed movies and it is impossibly accurate impossibly important and when people talk
about comic book movies sin city deserves some respect on its name this really helped things
get going if blade gave us the MCU I think Sin City gave us a lot of the adult oriented content
that we get now and uh yeah put some respect on its name since the city's the tits alright let
me know what you think if you read comics and you think there's an accurate comic book movie
I missed let me know if you disagree with my uh world view on something being accurate by being
authentic to the character but different from the comics let me know like you know your Deadpools
and such and most of all let me know what you're enjoying reading a lot of you have been asking
for comic book recommendations for this video I'm gonna say Deadpool The Good the Bad and the
Ugly if you want some sweet sweet Ryan Reynolds earnesty with some Deadpool Dead Presidents if you
want that comedy the Jerry Duggan type comedy that uh Rhett Reese and Paul Warnick do so very well
I would also recommend you read at least volume one of Sin City that's my my passionate cry out
to understand what that world of Pulp is a lot of people read comics and they think the younger side
but Pulp Comics especially adult Comics like Frank Miller have a lot of beauty to them that doesn't
get discussed enough and then finally for my last recommendation let's go with you know what [ __ ]
it read me from vendetta a lot of people give a lot of love to Watchmen as they should I do think
it's the most important comic book maybe ever made but I don't feel like V for Vendetta gets enough
love and as we live in a world that uh these conversations are discussed more often and as
these important elements of politics are bandied about day to day I think a great palatable way to
discuss Big Brother Fascism and treason is V for Vendetta get into it you lovelies uh that is gonna
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