Comic Book Movies: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

As of late there has been a rather large increase in the number of movies based on or inspired by comic books, being something of a comic book nerd I find myself drawn to them, often to my own dissapointment. It seems that these movies tend to be either really good, or really bad. Unfortunately it also seems that the majority fall into that second category. For whatever reason, I feel like briefly expressing my feelings toward them. So here they are, in no particular order:

Comic Book movies I have seen (For the sake of cutting down this list somewhat I have refrained from listing TV movies)

Iron Man: I enjoyed this movie as much as I thought I would. It had a good amount of action. Tony Stark was well cast, but Jim Rhodes was not, in my humble opinion.

the X-Men Trilogy: The first two were great, featuring most of my favourite characters. The third was a travesty in my opinion, and its only redeeming factor was the presence of Beast.

Batman Forever, Batman and Robin, Batman Begins, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm: The first two on this list were terrible, poorly casted, and far too campy. I could go on for far too long about how terrible Batman and Robin was. Batman Begins is still my favourite comic book movie (though that will probably change once I see The Dark Knight). Mask of the Phantasm was great as well, probably the top movie of my childhood.

Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four and the Rise of the Silver Surfer: Fantastic Four was one of the worst CBM's I've seen, the second was far better, but still subpar

Hellboy: I liked this one, it had a great amount of dry humour, and the director is one of my favourites. I am looking forward to the sequel.

Daredevil: Another travesty of a movie. Ben Affleck? Moving on...

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Entertaining for sure, but still not that great.

V For Vendetta: Excellent movie, I enjoyed it far more than I expected to. Though the scene when V introduces himself using an inordinate amount of v words still makes me cringe.

Mystery Men: I liked this movie, mostly because Tom Waits is in it though.

Hulk: Ugh...At least there's not much chance that the next one will be as bad.

300: This is a great movie if you want lots of stylized action violence and little thought.

Constantine: I'm divided on this one, I kind of enjoyed it. Keanu Reeves still sucks though.

Alien Vs. Predator: I laughed my way through this one. It appeals to me because I have a soft spot for cheesy horror flicks

Ghost Rider: Just about every line of dialogue in this movie made me want to either laugh out loud, vomit, or do both

The Mask: When I first watched this movie I enjoyed it. That was before I knew what good movies were though.

The Punisher: Want a movie with no plot? Watch this one.

The Rocketeer: I watched this one a long time ago, and so, I can't remember much of it, that could be good or bad.

Sin City: I really liked this one, it had fantastic cinematography.

Spider Man (1 and 2): I liked both of these movies, they were campy, but Spiderman always was.

Superman Returns: I hate Superman, he is the worst superhero ever. On top of that, the movie was just plain crappy.

So there you go. There are a plethora of these coming out in the next year, so I'll probably do an update of this list.