Which movies based upon comics are the most true to the comics?

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Which movies based upon comics are the most true to the comics?

Multiple movies are accepted.

Some of my top picks are:
Superman
Iron Man
Conan
HE-Man

Followed by Batman and Spiderman.

Sin City and Iron Man

Sin City

yeah, Sin City and 300 are about as close as you can come.

Other than those two i'd mention

X-2
Superman
Hellboy
Constantine
The Crow

Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
Sin City
The Crow
Iron Man
300
X-2

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
yeah, Sin City and 300 are about as close as you can come.

Other than those two i'd mention

X-2
Superman
Hellboy
Constantine
The Crow

Constantine? ****ing hell, you ever read a Hellblazer comic, ever?

Originally posted by Bardock42
Constantine? ****ing hell, you ever read a Hellblazer comic, ever?

I have to agree with the German on his afore mentioned post.

Sin City, in my opinion, is as close as you could possibly get to a comic book faithful adaptation.

A close second would have to be Superman 1978.

I don't read comics, but I've been told Hellboy was very good for comic to screen.

Originally posted by MildPossession
I don't read comics, but I've been told Hellboy was very good for comic to screen.

'Twas quite a good adaptation, but, at times, felt a little tacked on, if you ask me.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Constantine? ****ing hell, you ever read a Hellblazer comic, ever?

Yeah man, i love Hellblazer. Other than a change in wardrobe and nationality i thought Constantines character was represented very well. They were also able to throw a lot of references from the first several issues into the movie without them being random or out of place. The only thing that was missing was the torment he has to endure from the ghosts of his friends.

Originally posted by MildPossession
I don't read comics, but I've been told Hellboy was very good for comic to screen.

Yeah, the first Hellboy was very faithful to the source material. Much of the movie was a direct adaptation. Mignola was very much involved and Del Toro worked hard to satisfy his criticisms and suggestions. Considering the scope that Del Toro wanted the movie to have. I don't see any other way that movie could have been made. The only real difference i can see, as a fan, is that the comics have a much sharper focus on the occult. The characters, though, resembled their comic counterpoints almost flawlessly (some better than others of course). I was glad to see a departure from the comics in the second movie. It's just a shame that no one went to see it. I would have liked to see how the planned trilogy was going to end.

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
Yeah, the first Hellboy was very faithful to the source material.

Sure it was good but its a Shame it did'nt use all the story from "Seed Of Destruction"

It's just a shame that no one went to see it. I would have liked to see how the planned trilogy was going to end.

So have they diffenitly said no third movie is coming ?

Another would be the recent punisher movie that was true to the MAX Comics going by what i seen of the trailer.

Fantastic Four, especially the second one.

Originally posted by ThunderGodEneru
Fantastic Four, especially the second one.

Are you serious about Fantastic Four? It is definitely not based on the original comics.

I think the FF movies were both masterpieces who captured the emotional depth of all its characters to the most minute detail.

Hahaha. I c wat u did there.

Speke t3h truf?

Originally posted by Kazenji
Sure it was good but its a Shame it did'nt use all the story from "Seed Of Destruction"

So have they diffenitly said no third movie is coming ?

Another would be the recent punisher movie that was true to the MAX Comics going by what i seen of the trailer.

I don't know, I think they took the most important aspects of Seed of Destruction. As a stand alone comic, Seed of destruction has very little character introduction. They had to write a separate story for introducing the characters for the movie. I look at the first half of Hellboy as character introduction and the second half as the Seed of Destruction story. What do you think, what improvements do you think could have been made?

As far as i know, a third Hellboy is still a possibility. Recent interviews from Perlman show that he is more than willing to return for a third installment but he hasn't heard anything. I'm sure that Del Toro would be willing to return to the story eventually, considering how he has always spoken about a trilogy but he is going to be busy for a very long time with his current and future schedule. I definitely don't think the studio would gamble making a third Hellboy without a big name Director like Del Toro, at least not after the numbers that, Golden Army pulled in. Most of, Golden Army was privately financed. That further shows how interested in Hellboy that studio is lol. If we ever do see another Hellboy movie it wouldnt be before 2013. Who knows what he will be offered after the Hobbit movies. I just don't see it happening, unfortunately.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Sin City

Pretty much.

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
I look at the first half of Hellboy as character introduction and the second half as the Seed of Destruction story. What do you think, what improvements do you think could have been made?

Well there was no house named Cavendish Hall out in the middle of the lake with a Aztec temple underneath it and no giant frogs but i suppose they changed those for them Sammael things