http://andythesaint.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/movie-review-catch-up-2/ Pop Culture Musings for the Rest of Us Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:09:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://andythesaint.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/movie-review-catch-up-2/comment-page-1/#comment-371 Top 20 Comic Book Movies of All-Time « Critically Speaking Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:19:46 +0000 http://andythesaint.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/movie-review-catch-up-2/#comment-371 [...] 7. Persepolis (2007) - Not that one needs a big budget to make a great comic book adaptation. Persepolis was made for just over $7 million, or slightly less than what was probably spent on craft services for Spider-Man 3. One of the problems with adapting graphic novels for the screen is that they lose the visual flare that is an essential part of the story (as the comic book medium is more than the written story). Persepolis didn’t have that issue, as the animation matched Marjane Satrapi’s art, which was a large part of the film’s charm. Without the art, the story still would have been affecting, but it wouldn’t have been so special (which is, of course, also true of comic books themselves in comparison to books). My Review [...] [...] 7. Persepolis (2007) – Not that one needs a big budget to make a great comic book adaptation. Persepolis was made for just over $7 million, or slightly less than what was probably spent on craft services for Spider-Man 3. One of the problems with adapting graphic novels for the screen is that they lose the visual flare that is an essential part of the story (as the comic book medium is more than the written story). Persepolis didn’t have that issue, as the animation matched Marjane Satrapi’s art, which was a large part of the film’s charm. Without the art, the story still would have been affecting, but it wouldn’t have been so special (which is, of course, also true of comic books themselves in comparison to books). My Review [...]

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