In your opinion, which superhero has the best onscreen presence?
Electra
Blade
Wolverine
Ultraman
Batman
Superman
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Rumoured that there is a “Wonder Woman” flick in the pipeline and that Minnie Driver is interested in the role. Whoa. Time to make the golden lasso, cuffs and tiara hip again?
P.S. Add other characters for polling, if you like.
Which Batman?
Moody and classy Keaton Batman?
Slightly foppish and barely convincing Kilmer Batman?
“Homosexual undertones? What do you mean undertones?” Clooney Batman?
Camp and hilarious West Batman?
or the upcoming one I’d put my money on completely owning all of them, angry and moody Bale Batman?
Playing the averages (more shit than not) Batman loses out to Wolverine. If you mean cool and not-shit Batman, Batman wins.
Okay, okay. Seriously, I’d say that the most effective superhero comic books-turned-films would be Men in Black, Blade, Superman II, and Spider-Man II. The Incredibles was a movie first, but it rocks.
I like Hugh Jackman and in my opinion, he saved those X-Men movies from being utter dreck to being B + movies (about the same as Batman I and II, in my opinion.)
For worse possible superhero films / movies, I recommend the TV “Dr. Strange” pilot. "“Meteor Man” “Steel” the straight-to-bootleg-video “Fantastic Four” are all in the running, as are all those 1960’s Marvel cartoons which ran and 1 frame per second (as opposed to 24 or whatever for normal cartoons).
Obscurest? How about “Exo-Man”? “The Man With the Power?” “Ark II”? “Captain Nice”?
And you absolutely MUST see “Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension” (1984), starring Peter Weller and Jeff Goldblum.
[quote]JERRY: Yeah. Like Bizarro Superman. Superman’s exact opposite, who lives in the backwards bizarro world. Up is Down. Down is Up. He says “Hello” when he leaves, “Good bye” when he arrives.
ELAINE: [pause] Shouldn’t he say “Bad bye”? Isn’t that the, opposite of “Good bye”?
JERRY: No. It’s still a goodbye.
ELAINE: Uh. Does he live underwater?
JERRY: No.
ELAINE: Is he black…
JERRY: Look. Just, forget it, {already}. All right?[/quote]
In a nod to some of the less heralded superheros of the Seinfeld universe, I’d like to nominate Golden Boy, Jerry’s t-shirt.
In a separate category, for:
Best Superhero with No Superpowers Whatsoever
I nominate “Mr. Furious”
Sorry, guess I did. But I thought Spawn was more compelling in the comics.
Love the motley assortment from the graphic novel “The League of Extraordinart Gentlemen”, though not so much the film adaptation.
Think it would have made a fantastic animation, though.
Though it would have made a less-than-watchable movie, I thought the girls from David Mack’s Kabuki were wicked.
[quote]Playing the averages (more shit than not) Batman loses out to Wolverine. If you mean cool and not-shit Batman, Batman wins.
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Keaton, definitely (be more honest if I say I like the other dark-suited ones for different, ahem, textures that they bring to the role )!~
Whether Christian Bale (Seen brooding above in poster) would push the right buttons in “Batman Begins” remains to be seen… But I think I like his silhouette already!