{"id":7287,"date":"2012-04-24T17:08:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T17:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=7287"},"modified":"2012-04-25T12:02:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T12:02:30","slug":"best-and-worst-comic-book-adaptations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2012\/04\/24\/best-and-worst-comic-book-adaptations\/","title":{"rendered":"BEST AND WORST:  Comic book adaptations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With palm-dripping anticipation, Paramount&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marvel%27s_The_Avengers\">Marvel Avengers<\/a> gets its nationwide UK release on Thursday. Set to blast previous &#8220;highest grossing films evurrr&#8221; rivals away with Hulking ferocity (do one, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Avatar_(2009_film)\">Avatar<\/a>!), we chart the best and worst in the way of big screen comic book adaptations&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><em>THE BEST:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>(1) The Dark Knight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fogged in a droning, warbling sub-bass score, and home to the most twisted piece of posthumous method acting never committed to plastic, Christopher Nolan&#8217;s 2008 nouveau classic perfectly captures the cult comic book&#8217;s sense of metropolitan dread and isolation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Best scene<\/em>: The Joker&#8217;s quivering, game-changing entrance scene &#8211; and blink-and-you&#8217;ll-miss-it exit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IZoLu2srSFY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>(2) Ghost World<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The lynchpin for Scarlett Johanson role as indie cinema&#8217;s best-ever babestation, Ghost World faithfully ambles into Thora Birch&#8217;s problematic teen world &#8211; and to heart-wrenching effect.<\/p>\n<p><em>Best scene<\/em>: The pair&#8217;s ironic and self-effacing appearance at an end-of-year ball. Enter: AIDs jokes, awkward thousand yard stares and punch consumption by the gallon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nwi3LSF59sA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>(3) The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Little did Steve Barron and co. know that his adaptation of Mirage Studio&#8217;s reptilious comic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would become so emblematic of early-nineties western culture. Those four anthropomorphic vigilantes, who would &#8220;booooguss&#8221; and &#8220;raayadicalll&#8221; themselves through four sequels (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ninja_Turtles_(film)\">Ninja Turtles<\/a>&#8221; is set for 2013 release) set to stone a delicious slice of sewage-drenched pop iconography.<\/p>\n<p><em>Best scene<\/em>: *FURIOUS SCOWL* &#8211; &#8220;Pizza dude&#8217;s got thirty seconds!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/68bWYij_FgM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>THE WORST<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>(1) Barb Wire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The lowest career point of a career famed for its risible moments: Pamela Anderson&#8217;s dire performance as trashy bounter-hunter-by-day missy Barb Wire hasn&#8217;t even achieved retroactive lesbian cult status (Showgirls, take a bow).<\/p>\n<p><em>Worst scene:<\/em> &#8220;Don&#8217;t call me babe&#8221;. Is that meant to be a powerful and\/or hilarious girl power moment? Turns out, both descriptors apply: powerfully flat and hilariously forgettable.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6LsYAC32Ul8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>(2) Popeye.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the thought of watching Shelley Duvall &#8220;sing&#8221; and prance through her most unbearably cardboard performance doesn&#8217;t repel, check out Robin Williams&#8217; ingloriously over-played portrayal of sea-sick comic book star Popeye in Robert Altman&#8217;s 1980 adaptation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Worst scene:<\/em> &#8220;He needs, he needs me, he needs me&#8221;  x 666. Ohhhhh Shelley. This is Lucky Voice on a friday night, this is <em>cinema<\/em>, yeah? <\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qAFgj8mqPk0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>(3) Casper.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NO!<\/p>\n<p><em>Worst scene:<\/em> Ricci&#8217;s Cinderella moment: don&#8217;t snog that centre parted former ghost Xtina, he looks like a choir boy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W7cW5YlHaeQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Words: Jack Mills<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With palm-dripping anticipation, Paramount&#8217;s Marvel Avengers gets its nationwide UK release on Thursday. Set to blast previous &#8220;highest grossing films evurrr&#8221; rivals away with Hulking ferocity (do one, Avatar!), we chart the best and worst in the way of big screen comic book adaptations&#8230; THE BEST: (1) The Dark Knight. 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