Films that aren't based on (specific) comicbooks but feel as though they are

The Matrix, for instance, or The Incredibles. Name them here please.

Indiana Jones
The Mummy/The Scorpion King

fifth element

The Addams Fam(ah. they were based on cartoon characters, but only got their names when the TV series was first developed)

how does Wanted fit in to this

> Indiana Jones
> The Mummy/The Scorpion King

Oh, my aching head.

Wnated is based on a specific comicbook, gbx.

As is Wanted.

The Matrix was "inspired" by the Invisibles.

And "The Incredibles" isn't based on the Fantastic Four in exactly the same way that "Galaxy Quest" isn't based on Star Trek.

Films that are based on children's books by (e.g.) Roald Dahl (Willy Wonka/Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Matilda)

The original Buffy movie -- at the time I just assumed it was somehow comic-book based

Wnated is based on a specific comicbook, gbx.

― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Monday, March 9, 2009 3:38 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

i thought it was unfaithful to the point of bearing little resemblance?

JFK

Well, I haven't seen it (because the comicbook was terrible to the point that I felt like a worse person for having read it) so I can't speak to that. But Mark Millar is out there cashing checks on DVD rentals.

gangs of new york (based loosely on the book, i know, but totally has a graphic-novel vibe)

all the mad max movies.

El Topo

I admit that one of the reasons I think that is cuz Jorodowsky did some comics with Moebius.

oh shit, DARKMAN

Creepshow is based on Steven King wishing he wrote for EC. That might count.

Kill Billzzzzzzz

Really, the only things they kept between "Wanted" the comic book and "Wanted" the movie were character names.

The ten commandments, The passion of christ, Jesus of Nazareth, etc

Streets of Fire

Deep Throat

tbh the idea of an invisibles / matrix connection looks more & more ridiculous over time, sharing half-baked gnostic themes aside

this

http://img4.sidereel.com/_icon/15f0.jpg

That movie looks as though it's based on a description of the Matrix comic book.

equilibrium is so awesome

Christian "What don't you fucking understand?" Bale >>>>> Keanu "You Killed Ted, You Medieval Dickweed" Reeves

Dark City?

City of Lost Children

Indiana Jones

(specific)ally rips off Seven Cities Of Cibola

fifth element

(specific)ally rips off The Long Tomorrow

Wouldn't call it ripping off, since Moebius was a production designer on the film.

Brandt: Mind the uniform Cleric.
[unsheathes a katana]
Brandt: I plan to be wearing it for a long time.

Rebel: He'll shoot us in the back.
John Preston: If I was gonna shoot you, I'd shoot you in the face.

DuPont: In the first years of the 21st century, a third World War broke out. Those of us who survived knew mankind could never survive a fourth; that our own volatile natures could simply no longer be risked. So we have created a new arm of the law: The Grammaton Cleric, whose sole task it is to seek out and eradicate the true source of man's inhumanity to man - his ability to feel.

Continuity: In the pistol whipping sequence, two sets of spikes come out of the magazines.

Watchmen

although the story is far from feeling like a comic, Strange Days always had comic style characters imo, or characters that felt like they were 'developed elsewhere' if you follow.

Unbreakable

argh good one

also Tron

a) if Wanted closely follows the comic it is based on, then that is one shitty awful comic
b) wanted to shoutout me agreement with HOOS about how awesome Equilibium is. GUNKATA BITCHES

a) if Wanted closely follows the comic it is based on, then that is one shitty awful comic

I trust those who say it does not, but that does not negate the fact that the comic was written by Mark Millar, so shitty and awful is pretty much what you're going to get.

Also, I think Unbreakable, along with Darkman, are the only nominations that really fit the criteria of 'not actually based on a comic, but very comic booky.' The rest are either based on non-comics (movie serials, video games, etc.) or are ripping of specific comics (Incredibles: FF.)

Wanted the comic is actually more offensive and crappy than the movie; all the characters are superheroes as well as assassins, Millar wrote it, and the main character is admittedly based on Eminem.

Darkman is the best comic book movie, period.

Dunno if it's just me, but the Bourne films definitely felt more like comics adaptations than straight-up action films. Moreso with each installment.

Buckaroo Banzai

Wanted the movie was pretty crappy.

renaissance

Sky Captain?

Anyway, to give some context to what I mean...

Yes, The Incredibles clearly takes big character queues from FF, and big plot ideas from Watchmen, but the title, characters, aesthetic, world, etc, that it exists in is new, albeit a composite, and so it fits my criteria for what I'm after here.

Wanted (which I've neither seen nor read) may diverge so much from the comicbook as to be a completely different thing to it, but the title and character names are the same (I think?), and so it doesn't fit my criteria.

'Wanted' the comic book made me feel more dirty than if I was watching 2 girls and a cup. And not in a good way.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Ballistic.jpg

Hancock

http://www.zml.com/content/covers/108808_3.jpg

in bruges

donnie darko

southland tales

frost/nixon

Slumdog Millionaire

the reader

Thanks, kids.

My Dinner With Andre might as well be any random indie comic from the 1990s.

I'm not kidding about "Slumdog" btw; a lot of the pacing/cinematography feels like it fell right out of a graphic novel, plus the fable-driven plot seems like something that an indie publisher would fall all over themselves to grab. I haven't seen "The Reader" but I have no problem imagining a similar thing going on there.

there are serious graphic novels on pretty much every subject these days from the personal to the historical which sort of renders this question.... diffuse.

the reader, lol

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