Frankly, to me, Daredevil was the least interesting of the comic-book characters made into a feature film last year. So, I passed on it until it showed up on cable this month. To be honest, I was quite pleasantly surprised. Daredevil tells the story of Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck), aContinue Reading
“Been there, done that,” says Whistler as a vampire attempts to kill him. That’s pretty much a summary of how I feel about this sequel to 1998’s Blade. It’s a lot of the same stuff from either the first movie or other action films. It’s not horrible, but it’s certainlyContinue Reading
Last summer’s successful Spider-Man set off a wave of comic-book adaptations this year, including Daredevil, X2: X-Men United, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and, now, Hulk. Bringing Daredevil to the screen required little more than putting Ben Affleck in tights. The Hulk was a much bigger challenge to bring toContinue Reading
2000’s X-Men was a surprisingly good comic book movie. While I wasn’t a fan of the characters going in, I was one when I left the theater. 2003’s X2: X-Men United promised to be bigger and better than the original. Thanks to the decent box-office take of the original film,Continue Reading
This year’s big comic book film has finally arrived. With these types of films, there are usually two types of film-goers. There are the dyed-in-the-wool comic fans who will never be happy because of something that’s not exactly as they envisioned it. Then there’s the rest of us, who goContinue Reading
Let me start out by saying that I am not and have never been an X-Men fan. I have seen a few episodes of the animated series and am familiar with the comic books, but I’ve never been that impressed with either one. I understood that they were considered farContinue Reading
Comic book adaptations are one of my love/hate relationships when it comes to movie genres. Last year brought the rather good Spawn and the rather bad Batman & Robin. I had said in my review of Spawn that it was a good comic book movie because it gave more screenContinue Reading