It would be foolhardy to deny the impact that comic books and graphic novels have had on pop culture and the cinematic landscape over the last decade. Where once, great superhero movies were just the dreams of nerds and geeks everywhere, now we are in a comic book renaissance of sorts. From t-shirts to movies and TV to video games, comic books are just more on fire and culturally relevant than they have ever been. Anyone doubting the true power of this movement, understand, Ant-Man is in coming out in theaters very soon.
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Ant-Man. Process that for a second.
But there is an unspoken reality that most non-comic fans don’t realize about movies. For every mainstream comic book movie that comes out, there is one that gets released that no one even knows came from a comic book. For every Avengers and Batman sized movie, there is usually a smaller movie that came before that mined its material from a lesser known comic book. They also show you just how versatile storytelling in that medium can be.
People used to hear “comic book movies” and rolled their eyes. But slowly, those eye rolls are becoming a thing of the past as these adaptations just keep getting better and better. From stories about a dystopian future aboard an icy train to a tale about a father who falls in the worst kind of love, the following are ten perfect examples of movies a majority of people did not know were based on comic books.
10. The Mask
Once you watch this Jim Carrey movie, you’ll realize it probably IS based off a comic book. The Maskmovie and The Mask comic book were two VERY different things. The Mask movie utilized the mask itself to help make Jim Carey overact even more than usual.
The Mask in the book turns people into murdering sociopaths. No, seriously, there is a point in the original book when the mask kills a whole boat-load of policemen. The Mask was not PG-13 fair in the comics. But once Hollywood and Carey got their hands on it, they transformed it entirely.
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