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The Top 5 Reasons Why We're Excited for 'Captain America: The First Avenger'

By David Brothers (Subscribe to David Brothers's posts), Posted Jun 24th 2011 12:00PM
Filed under: Features, Summer Movies

'Captain America: The First Avenger', the latest entry in Marvel's quickly-expanding movie franchise, arrives a month from now, and the marketing is beginning to ramp up in a major way. The film features Chris Evans as Captain America, a 98-pound weakling-turned-super-soldier and patriotic icon. He's going to be fighting Nazis in World War II and, more specifically, Hugo Weaving as the Red Skull.

Judging by the info that's been released thus far, there's a lot to like about this flick. Now's as good a time as any to break down the top five reasons to go and see 'Captain America.'
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What's Right and Wrong With 'Green Lantern'

By David Brothers (Subscribe to David Brothers's posts), Posted Jun 20th 2011 12:00PM
Filed under: Features, Hot Topic, Summer Movies, New Releases, Sci-Fi

'Green Lantern' cleared 50 million bucks on its opening weekend, and while others will undoubtedly discuss what that means for the movie, a possible franchise and DC Comics, what's vastly more interesting is talking about the movie itself. It was entertaining, but flawed. After the jump, we're going to sit down and discuss five things about 'Green Lantern' -- four things it got wrong and one thing it got right.

(Warning -- Spoilers after the jump.)
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The Comic Book History of Professor Xavier & Magneto

By David Brothers (Subscribe to David Brothers's posts), Posted May 18th 2011 5:40PM
Filed under: Features, Summer Movies, Coming Soon

James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender play Professor Xavier and Magneto, respectively, in this June's 'X-Men: First Class,' (in theaters June 3) which will show the early stages of what would become a decades-long, and really quite complicated, relationship.

While it's too soon to know exactly how they meet in the movies, it seems clear that they find each other at the best possible moment: before mutants become a growing concern and an object of fear for humans. The central conflict that develops between the two men after that moment is their disagreement over exactly how to handle this new human-mutant relationship. Xavier, ever the peacemaker, thinks it vital to show humans that mutants are not a threat. Magneto thinks otherwise. He believes that he was born better than humans and has little reason to kowtow to what he sees as their tyranny.

We'll have to wait until 'X-Men: First Class' hits theaters to get the full details, but that's OK -- Xavier and Magneto have an well-fleshed-out history in comics already, and Moviefone will get you up to speed.
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Xavier & Magneto -- More of the Best Comic Book Frenemies

By David Brothers (Subscribe to David Brothers's posts), Posted May 18th 2011 1:45PM
Filed under: Features, Summer Movies, Coming Soon

Everybody knows that the best relationships are the ones fraught with drama. While kind, loving relationships are all well and good, they don't make for great entertainment. If you really want to get people interested and play their heartstrings like a fiddle, you need to set up a fantastic friendship and then pull it apart. Give people a reason to care before you introduce a conflict, and you'll hook them to an amazing extent.

In the world of 'X-Men' movies and comic books, the rocky relationship between Professor Charles Xavier and Magneto is the centerpiece of the mutant soap opera. One-time friends and battle allies, their difference of opinion on non-powered humans drove a permanent wedge between them. Sure it may be tragic, but the fight scenes look impressive on the big screen. Fans are eagerly awaiting the release of June's 'X-Men: First Class,' (in theaters June 3) which examines how Xavier and Magneto met and what exactly led to their complicated love-hate relationship.

With that in mind, here's a look at five more of the best friends-turned-enemies in comics.
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After 'Priest': 5 Manga Hollywood Should Adapt

By David Brothers (Subscribe to David Brothers's posts), Posted May 13th 2011 1:45PM
Filed under: Features, Summer Movies, New Releases

'Priest,' a loose adaptation of Hyung Min-woo's manhwa (Korean comic), hits theaters this weekend. But fans have been reading the comic series over several volumes from the publisher Tokyopop, a manga (Japanese comic) company. "Manga" has become a catch-all when describing the world of Asian comic books, and features characters as popular as Superman and Spider-Man.

Now that American comic books have flooded Hollywood, it looks like manga may be the next big thing. We've already seen adaptations of 'Dragon Ball Z' and 'Akira' has been in the news lately. What's next? We've got five manga that should be adapted, and some compelling reasons why.
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The Top 25 Comic Book Movies

By David Brothers (Subscribe to David Brothers's posts), Posted May 10th 2011 12:00PM
Filed under: Top 25, Features, Hot Topic

We're in the middle of a deluge of comic book movies right now. 'Thor' is the no. 1 movie in the country, with 'Priest,' 'X-Men: First Class,' 'Green Lantern,' 'Captain America' and 'Cowboys and Aliens' all due this summer. (Not to mention 'The Avengers' and 'The Dark Knight Rises,' which are being shot as we speak.) Is this the golden age? It's entirely possible. Before we can decide that, though, we have to rewind and take a look at what came before. After the jump, Moviefone presents our list of the Top 25 Comic Book Movies.
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The New Rules for Comic Book Movies

By David Brothers (Subscribe to David Brothers's posts), Posted May 2nd 2011 3:45PM
Filed under: Features, Hot Topic, Summer Movies, Sci-Fi

How do you make movies based on comics better? "Write better scripts" is the easy and obvious answer, but once you get that down, then what?

You look at the past 10 (or more!) years of comics movies to see exactly what worked and what didn't. There have been both amazing and awful comic-based movies in recent memory. What's more, there are half a dozen new comics movies due soon, be they reboots like 'Spider-Man' and 'Superman' or all-new entries like 'Thor' and 'Priest.'

Now that we've gotten past the growing-pains stage of comic book movies (hopefully), we can get into creating works that stand the test of time. We've come up with a few rules for the production teams to keep in mind.
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