The real Heroes behind the Comic book Adaptations Part 1

I am born in the 80´s. As a Kid if someone asked me what I like about Superhero Movies I just could not think about a great Movie which I really liked. It took me quite some time to look at Superhero Movies differently and see more than just bright colors and funny action.
The first thing I really know I liked was the Crow back in 94. My mother had to rent it over and over again in honestly I never could say why. There where nothing incredibly special about this Film. Even much later on I read that the Actor Brandon Lee died during the Filming of the Movie. As I kid I really liked those dark looking movies. Not the horror kind but still easily disturbing for a 10 year old. A little bit later I stumbled over another movie without any reason. It was Spawn. This movie twisted my mind quite hard. I have no knowledge background about these Superheroes because in Germany Comics where not that popular. So I really didn’t know what to expect from such a Film. In retrospective, that my mother let me watch all that movies over and over again showed some real trust. Blade was the last Movie of the era of dark Comic book related Movies for me.
A couple of years went by and my tasted in Movies shifted a little bit. I started watching Series like Friends and really looked out for a deeper storyline then just revenge ore something like this. So my eyes just rolled on disbelieve as I saw a huge Poster for Spiderman the Movie in 2002. It’s a Boy who get bitten by a spider and turning into a superhero. There is now way this can be good was the first thing what came into my mind. But eventually I got in the cinema with some friends and nothing better was screening at the time. So I saw it. And I was surprised. This was a really good Movie actually. It gave me all I was looking forward in a Movie at the time. A character someone can relate to, a story that goes deeper than just some rescuing the earth crap and some really solid special effects (for the time). But my hope for some good Movies which hangs on to the hype where badly disappointed. Except for Blade 2 nothing worthy mention hitted the big screen for almost two years for me. And this was a brilliant time for Comic book adaptations. Spiderman really kicked a door in for successful Superheroes Movies. But until Spiderman 2 nothing comes even close for me to be a good Movie. I think the sequel is even better than the first one. That’s the Point where I thought to myself: There is more to this than just solid Film making.
I just got into the whole directors and writers part about Movies and realized that a bad Comic book Movies wasn’t terrible because of the Comic book itself. It was just badly written and executed. And there is more than just good writing and execution in reflection to a comic adaptation. In the case of Sam Raimi. He is the First one who pulled a really good Spiderman Adaptation out of his head. This will stand for ever almost. The early 2000´s where a time where Computer effects really got to shine and no huge step in that apartment would make a Spiderman Movie more appealing. I think Sam Raimi realized that as one of the first directors and it came to no surprise that Nolan, Del Toro, Snyder, Favreau, Vaughn and even Edgar Wright saw the possibility to create something huge what will stand for a long long time. Not many directors can say they succeed with their attempted.



Follow me in the next part where I write about Nolan and why he saw the possibility to push an adaptation three steps higher everybody else not even realized it would be possible.

Let´s talk Cars

I mean fast cars and drivers who don´t give a damn. These are my thoughts about the fast and the furious frenchise.

These movies are a phenomenon of their own. Think about a Movie that goes into their 6 Titel in 10 Years and still has this whole popularity. There is not really a Movie what can be compared to this. That’s why I picked it up to put my thoughts out there.
First up I want to write about the movies it self. First up, Fast and the Furious.
No one really know what to expect from this. My eyes just got opened by seeing Matrix and getting a feel for Movies and why they give me something back that I can carry with me and learn from it. So there I was, watching a Movie about cars and streetracing. And honestly? I love this Movie and still dig it if I put it into my bluray-player. Everyone who watched one of these Films in the Cinema got the same impression and no one even questions it to drive after seeing this like a maniac with their own car.

8.0 / 10 Points for the first Part

2 Fast 2 Furious. Everybody should have known that the title itself screams shitty Movie. As I got out of the Movie I liked it. It was not good but sure, it was ok. Or was it? I bought DVD way later and popt her in. Men was I shocked what a bad movie this is. I own now all 5 Movies on Bluray and have the second one only because she was included with the 1-4 Movie –pack. I still have not watched this movie again and promised myself that this Disc will never see the inside of my Ps3.

2.0 / 10 Points only because Paul Walker drives a nice Skyline

Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift. What a title. I still was shocked by my 2 Fast 2 Furious dvd experience and their it was, another movie. At this point I got more into Movies and looked more information up before or after a saw a movie. Like who directed or wrote the movie. Paul Walker must bin so happy to get out of a contract to shout another one of these movies. So there wasn’t many upsides if the main character jumps out of the sinking boat. But a new Director. I gave them the respect and chance of this decision. So I watched Tokyo drift. The first half hour I got so mad about this stupid beginning that I got up and just had to leave the Cinema for 2 Minutes. If you seen this Movie you know why. But my Friends were still in there so I wound let them die alone. I still don’t like the main character. He looked way to old and his acting was so untrue to his situation. At a Point I wasn´t watching this Film for seeing him but for someone else. Sung Kang as Han shown trough the whole movie a solid and interesting performance. And he is the one who sad something that for me defined more motivation for his believes in what he does do than anything else that all three movie combined deliver. I explain later more about that.

7,2 / 10 Pints for Drifting in Tokyo

Fast 4. So Justin Lee is back to show us more what he is capable to do with this series. Fine by me, I was in already as I knew that he is back to direct. And even Han still lives because the next Movies are happening before Tokyo drift. This is the first Movie which cutting itself from the standard Furious Streetracing Formula. I don´t really know if it was necessary but at the end it was a step forward. The Cars are now rough, no stupid shiny paintjob, and everything is more violent. The whole cast of the first movie is back and it is no big secret that Letty ( Dom´s big Love) dies. So this is more like a revenge Film in which Dom´s and Brian´s Way´s are crossing each other. For me it wasn´t a big step from Tokyo drift to the fourth movie but a solid and more menacing approach to the series. I still think that the last action scenes in Tokyo drift and fast 4 were way to dark.

7,0 / 10 Points for Dom´s Wheely into the Enemies chest.

Fast & Furious 5. It feels like the cast and the director could done this movie 5 years from now. It don’t has to be rushed and everything what they come up with is entertaining and interesting. Part 4 und 5 are just solid action flicks. And well reserved as I think.

7,0 / 10 Points for a Vault strapped on to Cars going crazy.



But now I get to the part what´s really on my mind. The end of part 5 really let my head spin some interesting ideas for part 6. So if you have seeing the end of part 5 it seams like Letty is not dead.
If someone reads this, please let Mr. Lin read it as well.
My Ideas for Furious 6
As we all know everything looks like a happy ending. Dom, Brian and Mia are somewhere where the Nation or country doesn’t have a warrant on their heads. We also know that Dwayne Johnson as Luke is in this Movie. So Brian and Mia are now Parents (please don’t show how she get´s the baby. Just let it be there). That’s not a typical Fast & Furious starting action scene. So Luke is chasing some one around the globe. Let’s say a compilation of 4 Action scenes in London, Madrid, Dubai and Newyork. Would make for a nice change up for a beginning of the movie. But you don’t see who he is chasing. So that’s for the start of the movie. Dom brings Vince Widow wife and their sun back to the airport because they visited. What should have happened happens. Dom´s listen a familiar Car or style of driving a car ( let´s say a typical style to shift down what he did not hear for a long time). He turns around and Letty drifts in front of his eyes trough a corner and she sees him with this woman and kid. She can´t lift the gas or turn around because Officer Luke is chasing her. And if that wasn´t enough of a strange day for Dom, Luke sees him too, hi eyes tear up like the Rock does it in the old days and you can see the range that he found the men he was looking for but never could find. But he chases Letty because he has nothing in hands of Dom because in this Country he is a white Letter without any criminal registrations. So Dom talks with Brian and Mia that Letty is alive and in the city, maybe just for now but also that Luke are back on their Tail. But there is no reason why Dom, Brian or even Mia are have to get in the middle of all that what´s going on between Luke and Letty. Dom does not even think about it to risk his freedom to find out what´s going on. So he works on his Charger R/T in the back of his new house just like the old days. Even Brian has a car (maybe Skyline ore GTR which he looks like working on in between being a dad). It´s getting late and Dom still works on the Charger. So Letty emperors in the Frame of the Garagedoor. She don´t want to know who the woman from the airport was. She just wants to know if he is fine. She explains that she wound be long in the country and that her dept is almost paid off. Then Dom says that she has to look after the Officer who is chasing her, that he got even him back in Brazil. She almost leaves but says then that she hasn’t left him no meter what happened back at the Dominican Republic. But Dom is no one that can let all these questions unanswered. So instate of waiting if Luke finds him in his new home he goes of his own to the Police Office and let Luke answer some questions of his own. It turns out that Letty steals cars. But not to get money. In the last 5 weeks she stolid 11 of the most rarest Cars on the whole Planet and put them to shreds. It seems like it she only lets the cars alive from a certain owner which makes his cars so much more expensive because these are the only one left.
Luke get´s Dome something on his way. If he let his hands get dirty, he is the first who put him behind bars. Dom just laughs and says that there is no reason why he get´s in the middle of all that. Dom calls Han to find out who Letty owes all of this and it turns out that the guy for whom she´s stealing and destroying is a rich and very powerful guy who has his whole mention in a independent island ( ore something ). Dom calls Han over and says that he wants to talk with this men that Letty don’t have to get trough all of that to pay pack whatever she has to pay back. Even Brian wants to come with those two but turns around and says that he has to stay with his family. So Dom and Han are not very welcome ad Mr. X and it turns out that he knows these two. That they where even on the top of his List to get the Job done. But Letty has to disappear for some time to make sure Dom was save. (all around the Dominican Republic Situation) So she owes him a big favor. Dom and Han get kicked out. It takes not long for Luke to find out that Dom try´s to get involved and then decides to give them a visit. Dom´s get´s really loud and make sure that Luke understands that there is no reason that he threatens his Family just because he is on the operation Letty trough this country. Luke leaves but not without giving Dom something to think about. In the back of his Police car is sitting Letty. Luke says Dom that he get´s them all, just like him, Brian, Mia and Han. Then he takes off. Dom really don´t know what he can do. Brian is not as well in a position to risk everything again, he has a family now. So what will Dom do?

In Tokyo drift Han sad that to know someone it can´t be measured in money. That’s such a important message. And I think Han can say something like this in this situation. To Dom: “The question is, how much are you willing to risk for something more what wasn´t on your mind for years?” Brian supports Dom 100%. Mia is in because it is Letty and she knows that she would do the same thing for them. Then it is up to Dom. He just says “Without Letty I wound be the one I am today”

So they get back to Mr. X but this time with a plan. They steal all the cars that are now so ultra rare and make it in a escape chase out of there. They get Letty free and Luke finds out that the stolen Cars from Mr. X are in a little police office in a independent country. Over there are also Brian, Dom, Mia, Han and Letty free as a Bird. Luke can´t help it and laughs as he sees the cars that they gave to the police.
Someone is putting his hand on Lukes shoulder and turns him around.
“I want my Job back” Says Brian.


Maybe you like some of my ideas… I hope you had fun to read it
Bye guys :)

What changed your perspective on Movies?

What changed your perspective on Movies?

There are always these kinds of Films who let you look at everything in a new angel. Without the following Movies my perspective on Hollywood today would be the same. I hope you enjoy it.

Matrix (1999)



12 Years ago digitalization just started to make babysteps. A generation who works with computer more and more just got blown away how far this movie takes an Idea. It’s almost a simple little Idea but it changes everything and what stays left is a movie with more than another potential. Maybe one day this mid read somebody and remembers the Trailer for this Movie. As I saw it nobody had a +#?/* clue what was going on in this Movie. Month later, I sad in class and didn’t pay attention for what was going on, the guy next to me sad that he was seven times in this Movie. He visited the Cinema seven times. I could not believe what he was saying and thought he was just making a bad joke about a movie that’s probably not that good at all. Because I didn’t saw it jet. Two years later a rented it on vhs. Yes good old vhs. From this moment on I was hooked. I just got everything on the first viewing and hit the reverse button almost directly after the credits starts to roll.
To be a jung guy who grows up in a world that comes more and more about Computer and digitalization that’s the Film with brings this theme in a completely new context.
For my next Movie I just could find the right words but I try anyway.

Sunshine (2007)



This is one Movie I overlooked so many times. One day I searched for a good Sci-Fi Movie and I ended up seeing Danny Boyles Sunshine. There is not that much I can say. Because all there is, is an Idea that Humanity has just one last chance so life on and that is to fulfill a mission out of space. But in this context the Crew realizes that there is more to this mission that let the human raze survive. I just love if Movie makers try something new. The movie is defiantly not the best ever made but it is different and has one of the best Scores I ever had heard.

Good will hunting (1997)



Recently I just got more into Ben Affleck’s work. And after I saw the high preyed gone baby gone I had to see good will hunting for real. Not in the back of the room just because it’s shown on free tv. This is not the typical genius Movie. Don’t be fooled. I know I was before. There are not many Movies who can give me this reality feeling. This feeling that what just sad gets directly into your soul. But his movie dose. It just feels so real and lets you see things, almost life, differently.

Prestige (2006)




How far can two magicians drive each other for the perfect elusion? This is the question that should be getting answered. I chose this movie not for his Story ore originality. This is just one good example for a brilliant script. I just hate it if Movies got plot-holes (inception is the king of holes if you ask me and that’s why I don’t like the movie much but this is a other story). If someone wants to sell me a good story with many twists and turns, this is the film to look up from. And this Film is very dark. There is nothing those two has respect for. And at the end you think you got on with side your standing. But if you look closer you see that there is no winner. Just people who suffered.

Fight Club (2000)



One of those Movies where you think “I got it” and later realize you got not a damn thing is defiantly fight club. There is just one preppies, mess with you and let you have an ending with will blow your mind. That’s all I can say about that. David Fincher at his best.

The Dark Knight (2008)



This Movie is character realization at his best. To put a Comic character back to his roots and let him fight is inner demons and let his believes stay above everything is a risky attempt. Who can pull it off? So far just Christopher Nolan. The Dark Knight shows that Superheroes are not just for Kids. This movie is probably his best work so far and one of my all-time favorites.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2006)



When someone says Movies than there is one think that comes in my mind. People. The relationship between two People is the most interesting thing I think can give you a Movie. Because this is so important what you can take from this. And I love those Movies who have this one thing that is a little bit to much but works in this Film. For example the powers of the prisoner in the green Mile. Her is it the Memory erase Machine. All I can say that this movies let me wonder every single time i´m watching it. And that says allot. I realy hope Michel Gondry can make more of these kind of Movies.

Thank you so much for reading.

Black Swan (2010)

How far can you push a movie with a theme like that which seams to have no limits?

Darren Aronofsky tries things no one else would show on the big screen. Requiem for a Dream showed how controversy a movie can be and splits the audience into lovers, admires and haters. My first experience was quiet shocking with this, my first Aronofsky movie. I looked up what is a must see in terms of Movies in the 21 century. That’s about ten years ago and I found this title way up in the top list so I board it. Everybody who knows the ending has his experience with it. I´m not a Horror movie fan and can´t get quiet the hang of it how to look at these types of movies. To see a social very interesting movie almost destroys itself at the end was a complete new experience for me. I never viewed something like this before. So Requiem for a Dream is burned in my head and I would never want to miss this experience.

As you all know, the Wrestler and black swan should be one film at the beginning. But they decide it would be too much, so they spit it. For me it was the right decision. The Wrestler is a brilliant drama. Who is looking for a character driven drama with it little twists and turns should see the wrestler. Aronofsky profess that he don’t has to be shocking and ground braking every single time he gets a movie done.

So my expectations were high, very high for his new movie the black swan. So I want that movie to be good. I want it so much that it is brilliant and thrilling that I almost overlooked for what it is. When I heard so much good things about a movie it is for me personally very difficult to let the movie be and not is what I wanted to be. So I have to come myself down and the first part of the movie put me right on the ground. In parts it is almost as slow as I can take a movie like this to don’t jump up and run the hallway up and down. The theme is ballet, go with it or leave. And this is one of the many things I like about Aronofsky movies, he don’t hide something. He tells you, this is the theme, if you are up for it I show you how much more it can be. You have to take all in what he shows and sometimes throws at you like a chair witch smashes a mirror.
The second part shows you if you get it, if you are up for it or if you don´t / if you are just looking at the screen. It is very difficult to get from a good movie to a movie-experience. For me personally I just get this sucked in feeling with the Dark Knight before. And I don’t get this feeling at home like I had in the cinema. It is this big, almost intimidating, screen. And the black swan had me two or three times at this point where I can´t control my head rate for no reasons. I wrote before that I wound spoil anything and I don’t write the plot of the movie, let´s face it, everybody knows it. But I have to bend my rules a little bit to explain ad witch point I felt “fuck yes!” It was the scene in the nightclub. I don´t do drugs just alcohol if I´m up for it on parties. But this base-driven music, images and sounds really delivers the feeling of losing the track of time and place. Then Nina get´s banged with the head on a wall and this is the point where I felt to get a little bit self clearer in my head. And at the point she gets out of the club I felt this rush of the familiar feeling to almost lose it in there. This is the point witch very few movies can take me.

After this, there is no turning back. You don´t even try to solve all the puzzles who was what and what was real. That this movie get´s so strong that it doesn’t has to explain itself in front of the audience is the biggest achievement for cinema in terms of being seen by a brand of people who don’t even know that much about movies.

Mila Knuis performance was awesome. She is all what Natalie Portmans character not is and delivers extremely well. Only Portman can top her. And be sure she did. At first I wasn’t that much impressed. But there is a scene where she puts her makeup back on and she almost wipes her crying eyes out and let them laugh. And not by one wipe. First left, then right, everyone independent form each other. This image was so scary. More that the red eyes thing.
You can see I had a good time. I really hope this movie get´s noticed at the Oscars. But I also know that the Jure looks for different things in a best picture. If they show the respect and the courage that the Oscar can go to a more Art driven movie, I would be more than impressed and my feelings about the Academy Awards would chance.

I hope it gets the respect what it deserves because it is more than just a regular movie.

For me:

9,1 / 10

Don´t let us fall Superman!

Don´t let us fall Superman!

The expectations are high. Is it even possible that Nolan ideas into Snyder hands fulfill every Comicbook-fan dreams? Here are my thoughts on Superman, Batman, Nolan and Snyder.

How did we come to this Point? Snyder directs the upcoming Superman Man of Steel, Christopher Nolan is the Producer and the Story comes even from the Writer of Batman Begins and the Dark Knight, David S. Goyer. I hope I remember correctly that Goyer comes to Nolan and has a story idea for Superman who should finally work. As I heard this I was excited and afraid at the same time. Why? Because all we have seen from Goyer´s DC Story´s where brilliant but at the same time extremely risky. In collaboration with Nolan he adapts the Hero into a real world, even a world who could bin our own today. With Begins they play it really safe. Maybe to safe but I think they just had to convince the Studios that they can proceed with their idea and get the green light to make their biggest attempts jet, the Dark Knight. So what is Goyer capable of to do with the Men from Krypton? I think the answer is quiet simple. What he came up with is a Story more like the Dark Knight than Batman Begins. Here is my theory. So they present Warner the idea and they see Nolan´s commitment and even the possibility that he directs the Movie. But they don’t want to let it set with a onetime thing. The Studio wants to see that Nolan can repeat his success to reboot a franchise. So no surprise as the news came, Superman Man of Steel is going to be an origin story. And Nolan is not going to be the director. First of all, he has not the time to make the Movie but I think there is another reason. He steps back and takes the role of the producers to have one eye on his little project. I think he just wants to do another Begins story to direct. He did it with Batman just to prove that there is more to the Cape crusader than what the first Movies told and also to get the permission to make the Movie that he wanted to make. The sequel. It wound be a surprise for me if he directs the Superman sequel based on the Man of Steel. This would be the best thing what can happening for Superman.
Zack Snyder
Who can make a simple prequel based on a story by David S. Goyer? Of course Mr Snyder. Who could see that one coming. Don’t get me wrong. If it comes to simple adaptations from a Comicbook into a Movie, Zack Snyder is the guy who delivers. 300 and Watchmen are brilliant Movies if it comes to taking the page by page written story and bringing it to live. But her is my big Problem with Snyder. Goyer´s Story´s aren’t simple Comicbook adaptations. They so far off as they can be. In my perspective he takes the spirit, the core of the characters and let them show their main inspiration, motivation, and believes and at the same time fight their biggest fears. And all of that drastically in a world who could be ours now. People and characters dying with drastically effect. I don’t think there is room in this world for a Superman who we know from all the other Movies. But that can be a good think. Maybe the only think what can make a success for this franchise in this time of Moving going.



Superman can be saved?

So what can make the Audience go “WOW” in the Cinema? I think the Snyder´s Movie would not be the Movie Nolan has intended to make. So he wrote a origin story for Mr. Snyder (Comicbook like. Picture by Picture that the adaption Master don´t make anything wrong) that he can´t screw up. I think the Story has to be very simple. I´m a huge fan of the idea that we get a Superman who is old and wears the costume already for a long long time. Jon Hamm is the only one choice for the Role, in my opinion. And if you ask me, I think it would be good to have a origin part were one or two simple problems being shown and in the second part with the old Superman who has to solve this problems ones and for good. That’s all I want. Simple and smooth. Nothing with Lex trying to chance the Planet into a Kryptonite planet and please no rewinding the earth. So that’s the Movie I hope we are going to see 2012. I really hope that Nolen takes his time and makes the Movie he and Goyer had intended to make in the first place based on Snyder´s introduction. That would be a huge think for Superman. Please Nolan. Make Superman old, vulnerable but at the same time strong and kicking ass. The Dark Knight has shown what your ideas a capable to do with the experience of the Movie. I wish Superman get´s his well received Nolan interpretation in his pure self, his believes. Let him fall like Batman, but harder and deeper. He can take it. Let him rise again but realizing that he is more than a superhero. He is, and will be in all time, THE Superhero.

Thank you so mutch for reading

127 Hours (2010)

Danny Boyle´s latest attempt to prove that his slumdog wasnt a one hit wunder.
First up. I like Slumdog Millionaire quite a lot. For me the Story wasnt that mutch original but the Sets and Mood were unique in the aspekt of the Story. I dont think it was the best Movie of 2008 but, hey, who i am to judge. I liked Benjamin Button and Milk.
As i heard that Mr. Boyle new movie is based on a true Story with a Guy who´s stuck in a rock-gap i wasend that mutch excited. Because in his last Film he could work with this polished screenplay, country and many Actors who are more that motivated to prove them self. All that is missing. Instead he trys to show that he is capable to turn a true story who is just good enough for a documentery into a oscar contender. And? Has he done it?
I think so, yes. as i sad, there is not mutch to work with. But what gets out of it is almost amazing. Thanks to a grate performance by James Franco. There is not that mutch to take from this movie. You dont get the effect to think hours later about parts of the movie. But thats not what this Movie is for. You get a view of Live and all his cruel sites. But also what Lives gives you and what a Human being is caple of.
This Movie dosent have to hide anything. And thats the key i think.
For me Danny Boyle has improved. A lot!

For all who liked Into the Wild, this is your Movie

8,8 / 10

thank you very mutch for reading

Brazil (1985)

Directed and written by Terry Gilliam.
First of all. I´m not a huge fan of Terry Gilliam Movies. Some say that his Monty Python Titels are epic and a must see. And i like those Films, don´t get me wrong, but i dont run in the next Store to have them in my DVD-Collection. So my first thoughts on the Recommendation by CivilianSnowman (who calls this movie in his top 20 of all time) were not that mutch excited. But sometimes i listen to sutch a Recommendation and throw this and that in my shopping cart at amazon. Enough piff paff talk.

I´m not going to explain the whole plot. But what you get is a futuristic retro crossover with many many satire of Society, Business, Politics and even Dreaming and Love. And if you think, this is a little bit mutch, your right. It gets to a crazy mixture and even action packed at some parts. The Effects are damn good for its time. I don´t even try to say that i get every single detail of the Movie. It get realy surreal at time. And i like that. I love those Movies like eternal sunshine of a spotless mind were you quit lose your self and just go with it. If your open to those things, this Movie delivers all that. It even twists and turns that you get a real unexpected End.
The Mix of future-style and Retro mechanical parts are amazing. I can´t get enough of the interpretation of the futuristic Computers.

So at the End, how was it?
I liked it. I liked it more than i first thougt of it. For me this Movie finds the ballance of drastical showing of political decisions, Society, cruel buisness and on the other hand, fighting for there Dreams and love, parodie and humor. Thanks to this large spectrum everyone can take something from this Film. But not everyone is open for sutch a mixture.

My rating:

7.5 / 10

Thanks for the tip. I hope my englisch is not too bad. I realy hope i can improve my reviews in the future.
Thanks for reading