OBSCURE HISTORY OF COMIC BOOK MOVIES

• QUICK SIDENOTE –
  
  FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, STARTING IN 1993. “MARIO BROTHERS”,
  ADAPTATIONS FROM VIDEO GAMES WERE MOSTLY HORRIBLE; ASK UWE BOLL.
  
  DOOM, LARA CROFT, FAR CRY, HITMAN, WARCRAFT, ASSASIN’S CREED, PRINCE OF PERSIA, NEED FOR SPEED, SONIC, POSTAL, STREET FIGHTER, MAX PAYNE, TEKKEN, ANGRY BIRDS, BLOODRAYNE, ALONE IN THE DARK, PIKACHU (POKEMON, HOWEVER, IS DIFFERENT).
  
  EXCEPTIONS: MARIO BROS, MORTAL KOMBAT, RESIDENT EVIL, SILENT HILL.
  
• 80’s. MARVEL OLDIES –
  MADE SOLELY TO FIXATE THEIR COPYRIGHTS IN THE REALM OF LIVE-ACTION CINEMA. NO EFFORT WHATSOEVER. ALSO, HOWARD THE DUCK.
  GOOGLING “FIRST MARVEL MOVIES” TODAY WOULD GIVE YOU 2008 “IRON MAN”.
  
• 1990. DICK TRACY –
  WOULD LATER INFLUENCE CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S “THE DARK KNIGHT”.
  
• 1994. THE SHADOW –
  
• 1997. MEN IN BLACK 1 –
  TRULY THE FIRST MAJOR AND SUCCESSFUL ADAPTATION OF A COMIC BOOK.
  
• 1998. BLADE –
  LONG BEFORE “WAKANDA” IT DEPICTS THE MAIN CHARACTER A BLACK MAN IN A MAINSTREAM BLOCKBUSTER.
  
• 2000. UNBREAKABLE –
  USHERING IN THE ERA OF QUALITY COMIC BOOK MOVIES,
  THOUGH NOT AN ADAPTATION.
  
• 2015. HARDCORE (HENRY) –
  FIRST MAJOR FILM MADE THROUGH A P.O.V. (POINT-OF-VIEW), MUCH ALIKE A FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER VIDEO GAME.
  
• JAPAN:
  JAPAN IS CURSED WITH BEING UNABLE TO STOP ADAPTING QUALITY ANIME;
  STARTING WITH DEATH NOTE IN 2008;
  MUSHI-SHI, DRAGON BALL, ATTACK ON TITAN, F.M.A.B, GANTZ, BLEACH, ACE ATTORNEY, SPEED RACER, AND THE LIST GOES ON.

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