i dunno comic book adaptions to movies usually suck IMO...with a weekely or monthy story its hard to fit it all in a couple hours

also movies need the story to keep moving...sometimes comics milk a story line for far too long

the best adaption i've seen of a comic is the current resurection of the TMNT cartoon series...the first few episodes of that was pretty good a few years ago

man i was in love with that original comic...i still have the graphic novels

This current era of comic book adaptations was really kickstarted by the intelligent, respectful approach originally taken to the X-Men property by Bryan Singer and the fan response that followed. While its been an overall mixed bag, the general consensus among comic fans, myself included, is that a lot of these current adaptations are at least getting something right. Axlin08, I think your words hold truer to the comic movies of old, specifically the '80s and barren '90s (Judge Dredd, The Phantom, The Shadow et al.). Some would say the original Batman or Superman franchises. While later entried certainly ran those franchises into the ground, I largely stand behind the originals. For example, Singer's criminally underrated Superman Returns was a real harkening back to Donner's original Superman. It was essentially an homage with heavy religious symbolism, which apparently offended many peoples' idea about this iconic character. Movies like the upcoming Watchmen and even Sin City and V for Vendetta before it are showing a move by the studios away from the comfort of their superhero properties and into strict comic adaptation. That's something really exciting to fans. We've never seen anything like this coming out of Hollywood before. A movie like Watchmen being made on that scale and that faithfully (or so it would appear) is a real leap of faith for a commercially driven industry to take. It shows a lot of goodwill and faith in this existing fanbase. For once, comic fans should have little to complain about in the way of being taken seriously. They rule Hollywood.

Don't get me wrong though guys, I'll still post all day in our off topic threads...i just get sick and tired of all the unnecessary drama associated with GnR. 

For the decade before the album came out it was different.  I had to put up with all the dumb bullshit that surrounds the band/album, now that I have the album, I'm still interested, but I don't feel obligated to pay attention to all the minute details of the soap opera.