The Best Independent Comics Movie Ever (Round Four)

[S.C.B]

The winner from the last round is Road to Perdition.

So far, our winners are:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Men in Black (1997)
Road to Perdition (2002)

And now, the last round of new entries before we move on to the final!

I'll have to go with Sin City for this one. Stunning to look at, and it would be difficult to find a movie more faithful to its' comic book roots.

[Young Justice]

V for Vendetta is a good movie, but Sin City is better in my opinion.

[Michael24]

Little use in voting for it, but Alien vs. Predator for me.

[Ragebot]

This was tricky, I love Sin City, V For Vendetta and A History of Violence almost equally. Still, I thought that Violence was the best film of 2005, so it gets my vote.

[Cortez2301]

It was between "V for Vendetta" and "Sin city".I chose "V for Vendetta".

[Lord Dalek]

So far, every film I have voted for in these polls has lost.

Not this time. ;)

[The Penguin]

I can agree that Sin City was a great comic book movie, but I personally enjoyed Hellboy more (less graphic :eek: ) so rightly or wrongly I voted for that.

[Frank Castle]

I loved V for Vendetta but I voted for Hellboy. Ron Perlman totally got Hellboy right and the movie just really felt like a live action comic book.

[Palin Dromos]

Looking down the list I saw Hellboy and thought, "Oh this is easy."
Then I looked down a little further and saw Sin City, and then thought "Oh this isn't so easy."
Then I looked down a little further and saw V for Vendetta, and thought "Oh this is tough."

But in the end I went with Sin City. The almost slavish faithfulness to the comic takes it above the others.

PD

[Noukon]

I'm going to have to give it to Hellboy this round. I love it, V for Vendetta, and Sin City, but I think I enjoy Hellboy the most out of the three.

[Tapout]

Hellboy and V For Vendetta were both great, but Sin City takes it easily.

[Shawn Hopkins]

Man-Thing should be disqualified. That's a Marvel comics character. Sorry, I haven't seen any of the others. I was hoping Ghost World would make it to the final.

[Eidan]

V for Vendetta. Easily.

[S.C.B]

Man-Thing should be disqualified. That's a Marvel comics character.

Whoops! Right you are, sir. Everybody ignore Man-Thing! Or, if a mod would be so kind and if I said please...?

[The Penguin]

And if you did those things and if it didn't have any votes and if I deleted it, what then? ;) You're welcome.

[Cortez2301]

Oh even though I voted for "V for vendetta",isn't it part of the Vertigo Dc comics? Or I did S.C.B. say something about this matter before that I missed out on?

[Young Justice]

Oh even though I voted for "V for vendetta",isn't it part of the Vertigo Dc comics? Or I did S.C.B. say something about this matter before that I missed out on?

The whole grouping of movies into Marvel, DC and Independent is not 100% correct. It is 99% correct. There were a few minor errors, and there are also a few not so sure categorizations like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Is it DC or not?

It was stated before by one of the Mods that we shouldn't be nitpicking about the categories and instead go right to voting. If the movie was good enough and it was wrongfully categorized, it would win its round anyway and go for the finals.

[Anarky]

i've not seen "V" or "Sin City" so I had to vote for Hellboy, i'll buy these films soon enough. haven't seen "Constantine" either

[Damien]

I take it we're defining independent as not DC or Marvel? And if so, we're counting Vertigo as not DC?

[EzraBladerunner]

This is tricky. I mean, the ones I watched was Sin City, Hellboy, and V for Vendetta.

I guess I'll go with Hellboy then, although the other were very close.

[CheshireKitten]

No contest. V for Vendetta. An amazing film, period, IMO.

[Cortez2301]

The whole grouping of movies into Marvel, DC and Independent is not 100% correct. It is 99% correct. There were a few minor errors, and there are also a few not so sure categorizations like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Is it DC or not?

It was stated before by one of the Mods that we shouldn't be nitpicking about the categories and instead go right to voting. If the movie was good enough and it was wrongfully categorized, it would win its round anyway and go for the finals.oh.

[S.C.B]

And if you did those things and if it didn't have any votes and if I deleted it, what then?

I'm sure some kind of bribe system could be set up. Oh, did I say 'bribe'? I meant 'appreciation'. :p Thank you.


I take it we're defining independent as not DC or Marvel? And if so, we're counting Vertigo as not DC?

It was a tricky process, so I did the best I could with regards to what goes where. But for my overall POV, I redirect you to this qoute from the ever noble Young Justice:


If the movie was good enough and it was wrongfully categorized, it would win its round anyway and go for the finals.

[Matt A]

Now this one is a toughie. I'm kinda torn between Hellboy, Sin City and V For Vendetta.

Hellboy is great fun, and it would easily win if the other two weren't there...but because they are there, it'll have to settle for a respectable third.
As for the other two...they're both equally awesome, the best films of their respective years, but I think Sin City might just have to take the prize. V For Vendetta was a kinda life-changing event (hyperbole, but whatever), but Sin City edges it out for its sheer unplaceable X-factor. It's one of those rare films that gets better each time you watch it.:D

-Matt A-

PS: I didn't even know Timecop had a sequel. Something tells me that it's fairly horrific...

[Michael24]

The TimeCop sequel was (probably obviously) direct-to-DVD. It starred Jason Scott Lee.

[Shawn Hopkins]

Eh, what's wrong with a little accuracy? Improperly placed movies skew the entire results. If he had, for example, placed a popular independent movie in the DC category it might have taken swing votes away from a deserving DC candidate.

I think they should be grouped by parent company and ownership. It was fine to call Men in Black a Marvel movie because even though it was originally published as an independent comic, the rights were bought by Marvel. League and all Vertigo books are published under DC imprints. Unfortunately, if you use this logic, A History of Violence was a Paradox/Vertigo book and hence always from DC imprints, Road to Perdition was Paradox and also DC and although V for Vendetta first ran in Warrior in the UK it was always published in the US by Vertigo/DC, but I'm not going to suggest any more changes.

I just realized I have seen Hellboy and liked it, so I'm going to vote for that.

[HilaryDuff_Fan10]

Sin City

[The Penguin]

Eh, what's wrong with a little accuracy? Improperly placed movies skew the entire results. If he had, for example, placed a popular independent movie in the DC category it might have taken swing votes away from a deserving DC candidate.

I think they should be grouped by parent company and ownership. It was fine to call Men in Black a Marvel movie because even though it was originally published as an independent comic, the rights were bought by Marvel. League and all Vertigo books are published under DC imprints. Unfortunately, if you use this logic, A History of Violence was a Paradox/Vertigo book and hence always from DC imprints, Road to Perdition was Paradox and also DC and although V for Vendetta first ran in Warrior in the UK it was always published in the US by Vertigo/DC, but I'm not going to suggest any more changes.There's nothing "wrong" with it, but it doesn't matter what you or anyone else thinks about the format at this point, the poll is already here. S.C.B has tried to put together a fun and interesting subject to discuss and we always get bogged down in semantics rather than voting. S.C.B did it so he gets to pick. If you had been doing it sounds like it would be different, but you're not.

Reposted again, both from DC Part 2 (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=182844)...


V For Vendetta is a big complicated broo-ha-ha as far as the publisher is concerned, so I thought it simpler to include it in the independent comics poll later. It's the same situation as A History of Violence, which has a lot of technicalities involved.


Can't we just vote in the damn polls, people? S.C.B has tried to offer something interesting and fun to foster discussion and just about every other post is varying degrees of whining about where another movie is or how a movie isn't in this particular poll! I'm tired of looking at it. Can't we just vote in the poll and discuss the choices in it?!

[Shawn Hopkins]

There's nothing "wrong" with it, but it doesn't matter what you or anyone else thinks about the format at this point, the poll is already here. S.C.B has tried to put together a fun and interesting subject to discuss and we always get bogged down in semantics rather than voting. S.C.B did it so he gets to pick. If you had been doing it sounds like it would be different, but you're not.

Reposted again, both from DC Part 2 (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=182844)...

Hey, I said I wasn't suggesting any more changes.

But I'd argue that there are absolutely no technicalities with A History of Violence or Road to Perdition. They were both published by Paradox, a DC imprint, hence they are DC comics. DC owns the rights to publish V now, so that is a DC comic.

[The Penguin]

Hey, I said I wasn't suggesting any more changes.Fair enough. I must have glossed over that part of your post because I've grown so tired of the polls becoming about the choices than what one actually chose.