The Only Great Comic Book Movie!!!!!

Rating: 9/10 (18 July 2000)

This is the first time in the history of film and comics that they actually got it right! Lots of people praise the first two Batman and Superman Movies.
I have a piece of advice: Watch them again.
No Batman movie really explores Bruce Wayne as a character. He chases around over the top bad guys (who act like common gangsters in crazy outfits and only speak in catchphrases) for the entire film. He is also involved in a forgettable love story every time. Batman has no real interest in love only justice. It's an intregral part of his Character. We need a Year One or Dark Knight movie.
The Superman movies are a little better, but they really play fast and loose with his powers. Telekinesis? Illusions? White lasers that come out of his hand? The ability to erase Lois's memory? Rebuild-the-great-wall-of-China-Vision? Also The Super-Fake city battle in the Second Movie is quite lame. If it wasn't for Gene Hackman's fab performance those movies would be totally forgetable.
Blade was a vampire movie and a mindless on at that. There is not much in that movie that screams Comic Book, except for the total lack of characterization inherit in most Comic Book Movies. Captain America(Straight to Video), Punisher(Straight to Video), and the Hulk(TV movies) were the absolute pits.
X-men was a real Movie, not corny or gritty or cheap looking. The X-men esp. Wolvie and Rogue acted like I would expect them to if the were real people. Wolverine and Cyclops were perfect together. Storm and Sabertooth were a bit of a bore. Did anyone catch who was who at the academy? I saw Shadowcat Iceman and maybe Pyro(he's a brotherhood member in the comics maybe he'll defect or betray them in the sequel) Who were the super fast basketball player and the waterwalker? are they actual Xmen characters or created for the movie?
I would love to see another Xmen movie and a Wolverine solo movie. I wish we could finally see wolverine's origin which hasn't been revealed in the last 25 years. I haven't read the Comic since they got awful(post Claremont) and I hope they finish that story somewhere.