Rocketeer and Road to Perdition for me. Danger: Diabolik (1968) is another.
V for Vendetta, if that counts.
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02-07-2018, 08:30 AM #61Not a Newbie Member
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Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
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02-07-2018, 08:49 AM #62Astonishing Member
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Some may think of WildStorm (and Vertigo) as part of DC business-wise but not creative-wise. Even though some of their titles do cross over with the DCU.
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02-07-2018, 09:13 AM #63BANNED
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Even separate from what was specified in the OP, Red was never DC, never part of any of DC's universes. It was a creator-owned book by Warren Ellis. Originally Posted by numberthirty
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02-07-2018, 09:18 AM #64Not a Newbie Member
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In retrospect, V for Vendetta for me is maybe significantly better than all the comic films after it. If you think that's me indicting DC and Marvel's cinematic universe movies, you'd be correct. Originally Posted by Confuzzled
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Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
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02-07-2018, 09:51 AM #65Astonishing Member
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V for Vendetta loses it for me because of its rather strong departure from Moore's original intent. It was supposed to make a case for anarchism, not democracy... in the original, democracy is just a gateway to legitimized fascism.
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02-07-2018, 09:59 AM #66Not a Newbie Member
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It definitely had departures worth considering, but I'm also able to consider it apart from those departures, it's still effective overall despite the departures IMHO (Watchmen (the movie) isn't effective IMHO, but that's not just because of the departures). I do the same with Kubrick's Shining vs the book. Originally Posted by AndrewCrossett
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Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
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is it because the authoritarian state depicted is foreshadowing? Originally Posted by JBatmanFan05
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02-08-2018, 01:42 AM #68the devil's reject
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Cool I'll have to check it out seeing as I love the movie. Originally Posted by Carabas
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02-08-2018, 02:49 AM #69Astonishing Member
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The Crow. Love that movie.
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