CLOSED: TDMMC Comic Book Movie Madness: Non-Marvel Group 4

[Spider-Dan]

#5 Shazam! (2019)



A newly fostered young boy in search of his mother instead finds unexpected super powers and soon gains a powerful enemy.

Director: David F. Sandberg
Writer: Henry Gayden
Stars: Zachary Levi, Mark Strong, Asher Angel

#12 Dredd (2012)



In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.

Director: Pete Travis
Writers: John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra
Stars: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey

#4 The Lego Batman Movie (2017)



A cooler-than-ever Bruce Wayne must deal with the usual suspects as they plan to rule Gotham City, while discovering that he has accidentally adopted a teenage orphan who wishes to become his sidekick.

Director: Chris McKay
Writers: Seth Grahame-Smith, Chris McKenna
Stars: Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson

#13 Watchmen (2009)



In 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it.

Director: Zack Snyder
Writers: David Hayter, Alex Tse
Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino

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Pick two to advance!

[Tenshot13]

Watchmen is a lock.  I went with Shazam for my second pick.  I was expecting it to be a stinker and it was surprisingly good.

[Dave Gray]

Watchmen kicks ass.  Fight me.

Dredd also kicks ass.  Fight me again.



Watchmen is slightly gratuitous with it's sex stuff and a lot of the subtext is lost, but for a straight adaptation, it did it.  The visual style is incredible.  I do wish that they'd just gone all out and did the squid ending, though I understand why they didn't.  It's a little bit of a shame that they made the switch to make it more of a swallowable pill for regular audiences, but then those same audiences didn't support the film.

Dredd is the tits.  I wish more people would watch that film.  Huge balls to never take the guy's mask off.  It's a really great super hero film done on a small budget and really shows you how to make a film about a mysterious character by not really making him the main character.  Really cool.  Watch it if you haven't.

[Spider-Dan]

Shazam! and Watchmen.

My review for Shazam pretty much says it all.  The movie didn't do as well as I expected, but I still loved it.

I haven't seen Dredd, and Lego Batman was OK but unspectacular.  So I went with Watchmen for my second choice.

[Tenshot13]

Watchmen kicks ass.  Fight me.

Dredd also kicks ass.  Fight me again.



Watchmen is slightly gratuitous with it's sex stuff and a lot of the subtext is lost, but for a straight adaptation, it did it.  The visual style is incredible.  I do wish that they'd just gone all out and did the squid ending, though I understand why they didn't.  It's a little bit of a shame that they made the switch to make it more of a swallowable pill for regular audiences, but then those same audiences didn't support the film.

Dredd is the tits.  I wish more people would watch that film.  Huge balls to never take the guy's mask off.  It's a really great super hero film done on a small budget and really shows you how to make a film about a mysterious character by not really making him the main character.  Really cool.  Watch it if you haven't.

Dredd was a pretty awesome movie in it's own right, I agree.  Shazam nudged it out IMO, but not by much. 

[Sunstroke]

None of  you seem to understand...I'm not locked in here with you...You're locked in here WITH ME!!

I haven't seen Shazam...and I haven't seen ANY of the Lego movies. Fortunately, Watchmen is top-5 in my all-time fave comic book movies, and I really enjoyed Dredd as well.

[Dave Gray]

Shazam is actually pretty good.  It's kinda like Big with Tom Hanks.  Funny too and the ending is clever.  I think this was just a pretty good group.  Lego Batman was fine.

[Brian Fein]

I thought Shazam was awful.
I'll be that guy that votes for Lego Batman, cause that movie had me rolling on the floor

[Phishfan]

I couldn't make it through Shazam. That movie ruined my memory.

[Spider-Dan]

Voting has ended!  Watchmen and Dredd advance to the next round.