Superhero Flicks, Part 8: Miscellaneous Marvels

So, with the X-Men, that takes care of all the big dogs, now, as I did with DC, time to sweep up the stragglers.

Like with the DC one, there are twelve of these....but, I think I'll have more to say about 'em, so I'm cutting it in half.


Man Thing

The film-

Fitting I kick it off with this one, since I started the other one off with Swamp Thing.

Sadly, haven't seen it.
But, it was shat out by SyFy, so, pardon my skepticism of its quality.

I will take this entry as the opportunity to note that Swamp Thing apparently ripped off Man-Thing.
Fans have loooong thought so.

It's interesting to note that 1.) whether deliberately, or just as a side-effect, Alan Moore wiped those concerns away, by essentially gradually turning Swamp Thing into a whole other character.

(In the end, he was sort of a green Dr. Manhattan, and...I always took the issue "my blue heaven", as a glimpse of what probably happened to Dr. Manhattan after he left the Earth for the last time)

And 2.) skimming Wikipedia, apparently, the film gives Man-Thing plant elemental powers, thus undoing Moore's revision out of the "ripoff", trap by ripping off Swamp Thing.
D'oh!

The history-

N/A
Was never a Man-Thing fan; woulda been hard to be so, he/it was either buried in anthology books, or books with short spotty runs.
It was hard enough chasing down Swamp Thing back issues across two states back in the day.


Blade

The film-

From here...

First one wasn't bad.
This began the upward trend of Marvel properties at last.

..huh, thought I had more to say...

Yeah, it was pretty good.
Kinda Vampire Hunter D meets Punisher, but..not as good as either of those, but still okay...significantly better than the Underworlds.
Yeah, let's go with that...

The history-

*Shrug* Spike Channel


Blade II

The Film-

Um...*strains to remember*....*has to go check Wiki*....oh, right, the Reaper virus, the flower-mouths.

Eh...*wavey hand*

It had a neat cast....Ron Perlman was there....

The history-

Spike again.


Blade Trinity

The film-

Uhhh....*checks wiki again*....I...remember flickering bits of this...I must have hated it, and gave up.

I'll round it off to "stinky winky".

The history-

Probably Spike, or TNT, or somethin.


Daredevil

The film-

Pretty good, actually.
For what it is.

Like I said in the Hulk review, not a big Daredevil nut, and I'm also not a big Ben Ass-fleck fan either.

Expected to eye-roll my way through this, but, um, it was good.
And if it can make a non-fan like me sit still, and be entertained for an hour and a half, then, I guess it's a good Daredevil flick.

Oh, it's not the greatest superhero flick, or even up in my top 20, but...I don't see where it deserved some of the shit it got from critics.

If I had the money to be an anal-retentive completist, I'd have no problem with this in my collection.
*Shrug*

The history-

Kinda avoided it, then, it finally came to FX, and I was like "ohhh...all right...".


Elektra

The film-

Stinky winky.

Got 15 minutes in (including commercials) and bailed.

The history-

FX, or TBS, or somethin....I have a reflexive sensation of it being up in that area of my mental representation of the channel-band.


Okay, there's that batch.
Hopefully, more to say on the next batch.

Up next, leftovers, part 2.