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Post by Confessor on Jul 6, 2017 11:26:51 GMT -5
I've always enjoyed Outland, the film. It's High Noon, mixed with a few other things; but, it's a pretty realistic depiction of what a mining colony would probably be like. Some excellent work from Peter Boyle and Frances Sternhagen, also James B Sikking and Stephen Berkoff. Connery is a little overly low key, in many scenes. Felt like one he did for the money, which has never resulted in a great performance from him. Peter Hyams also did 2010 and he had a feel for realistic future technology. I don't disagree with any of the above, but as a movie, Outland just bored me rigid, I'm afraid. Such a dull film. 2010, on the other hand, I really like.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 6, 2017 11:30:51 GMT -5
Don't forget about the comic book adaptation of Superman IV Quest for Peace. The comic had the weird Frankenstein monster type clone at the dance night club and Lex Luthor was bald and way different than the Gene Hackman Lex Luthor Good call. I still have this and really like it. With all of the scenes that were deleted from the movie in it, and the lack of budget special effects that so marrred the film, I'd say that the comic version of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace is actually preferable to the movie.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 6, 2017 11:33:34 GMT -5
Outland, starring Sean Connery, adapted by Steranko I wanted to post the exact same thing. It's better than the movie. Here is other one instead: Roy Thomas / Mike Mignola Bram Stoker's Dracula Is this worth getting? I've looked at this many times on eBay and almost pulled the trigger. I'm a big fan of Bram Stoker's original novel and really like Francis Ford Coppela's film version too.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 6, 2017 11:36:06 GMT -5
Here's two I actually had as a kid and still have packed away somewhere. The three issue Labyrinth mini series was pencilled by John Buscema. Good call. I bought the Labyrinth adaptation back in the day and still have it. A very enjoyable version of the movie. You know, this mini-series rocketed up in value after David Bowie died, which I thought was kinda weird. I assume that they have returned to sensible prices nowadays. Really, this should be "dollar bin" fodder, good though it is.
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Post by Warmonger on Jul 6, 2017 12:25:41 GMT -5
I have the Blade Runner and Raiders of the Lost Ark series.
Didn't realize they did Clash of the Titans or 1941 adaptations. I'll have to work on tracking those down.
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Post by bran on Jul 6, 2017 13:10:54 GMT -5
I wanted to post the exact same thing. It's better than the movie. Here is other one instead: Roy Thomas / Mike Mignola Bram Stoker's Dracula Is this worth getting? I've looked at this many times on eBay and almost pulled the trigger. I'm a big fan of Bram Stoker's original novel and really like Francis Ford Coppela's film version too. unless you don't like Mignola's art - definitely! [there is of course, book adaptation "Stoker's Dracula" , famously finished 20+ years later...]
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Post by urrutiap on Jul 6, 2017 13:43:43 GMT -5
I was a little kid in the early 1980s and I was too young to even know what a Comic book was or even a Comic book adaptation of a movie.
Over the years these days I learn something new.
Pretty much a Comic book adaptation was made for almost every fantasy or sci fi movie besides Star Wars and Dark Crystal.
Do comic book adaptations made from a movie like Superman III or IV even count since they were movies based on the Superman comic from the 1930s.
Comic book adaptation based on a movie based on a comic book.
About as bad as making a videogame based on a movie based on a videogame aka the Ratchet and Clank movie
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Post by Confessor on Jul 6, 2017 18:18:26 GMT -5
Is this worth getting? I've looked at this many times on eBay and almost pulled the trigger. I'm a big fan of Bram Stoker's original novel and really like Francis Ford Coppela's film version too. unless you don't like Mignola's art - definitely! [there is of course, book adaptation "Stoker's Dracula" , famously finished 20+ years later...] Didn't know that adaption, but Leah Moore and John Reppion's The Complete Dracula was a masterfully done adaptation.
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Post by rom on Jul 6, 2017 20:51:25 GMT -5
Don't forget about the comic book adaptation of Superman IV Quest for Peace. The comic had the weird Frankenstein monster type clone at the dance night club and Lex Luthor was bald and way different than the Gene Hackman Lex Luthor Good call. I still have this and really like it. With all of the scenes that were deleted from the movie in it, and the lack of budget special effects that so marrred the film, I'd say that the comic version of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace is actually preferable to the movie. Superman IV (1987) was laughably bad. The whole film was a big, steaming P.O.S.. One of the worst scenes was when The Radioactive man was flying through space with M. Hemingway - and she was able to breathe without any kind of space-suit. What nonsense. I've only seen this once, and never plan on seeing this again.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 6, 2017 23:15:20 GMT -5
Good call. I still have this and really like it. With all of the scenes that were deleted from the movie in it, and the lack of budget special effects that so marrred the film, I'd say that the comic version of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace is actually preferable to the movie. Superman IV (1987) was laughably bad. The whole film was a big, steaming P.O.S.. One of the worst scenes was when The Radioactive man was flying through space with M. Hemingway - and she was able to breathe without any kind of space-suit. What nonsense. I've only seen this once, and never plan on seeing this again. Aw, there's one decent scene, where Hemingway is trying to seduce Clark kent and is sitting on top of his desk, showing off a very nice pair of stems.
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Post by rom on Jul 7, 2017 2:08:59 GMT -5
Sure, Muriel Hemingway was hot - especially in the late '70's - '90's. However, even she couldn't save the crap-fest that was Superman IV.
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Post by brutalis on Jul 7, 2017 8:13:32 GMT -5
Fond memories as I bought most of the Marvel movie adaptions's as they came out. The occasional other adaptions: the King Kong treasury sized reprint, Disney's Black Hole and such. Most were hit and miss but for a kid without the money or means to getting to the movies regularly it gave a sense of what a movie was and whether or not you may want to see that movie.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 7, 2017 14:26:38 GMT -5
There are a lot of movies from the 60s that I've never seen, but I know a lot about them because I read the Mad magazine parody. Mort Drucker was really good at celebrity caricatures.
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Post by bran on Jul 7, 2017 15:26:49 GMT -5
Archie Goodwin / Walter Simonson: Alien - The Illustrated Story
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Post by Randle-El on Jul 7, 2017 22:10:39 GMT -5
Yeah, this very much echos my own experience of film adaptations in comics. What was The Last Starfighter adaptation like? I never picked that up, but I loved the film as a kid. To be honest, I don't remember too much about that one. I only had one issue out of the three, a common scenario when I was picking up comics at drug stores and other general retailers, so I didn't read it that much. On the other hand, I had a trade collection of the Return of the Jedi adaptation, which I read incessantly. I remember that one especially because it was the first time I ever heard Darth Vader being referred to as a "Dark Lord of the Sith". That piqued my childhood curiosity immensely -- what the heck was/were the Sith??? It was one of those small examples of how Star Wars often had small references to events or things that hinted at a larger universe behind the story you were experiencing. Speaking of Star Wars adaptations -- I had the uncommon experience of reading adaptations of the films before I saw the movies, and I read the adaptations out of order. My first introduction to Star Wars was the toys, which led me to read-along storybooks like this one, which had photos and captions from the films that were to be viewed while playing a cassette that had a condensed version of the story (complete with dialog and sound clips from the movies): I'm pretty sure I read RotJ first, then ANH, then ESB. So the whole "I am your father" revelation was no big deal for me, since from my point of view I had known all along that Vader was Luke's father. By the way -- I also did love the Last Starfighter movie. If that isn't a kid's wish fulfillment fantasy in its purest form, I don't know what is. What other movie told kids that all those hours of playing video games could make you an intergalactic hero?
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