This isn't a conspiracy theory topic or anything other than weird coincidences that I thought were pretty neat. We're chatting about it on IRC and I think it's neat enough to go ahead and make a topic.

I was watching some late night TV last night and I flicked onto the film "The Crow" which I thought was surprisingly good considering the subject matter/comic book adaptation and death in the film. I mean before the crow the best comic book adaptation was probably the batman films with Michael Keaton.

Anyway I was looking REALLY HARD to see if I could see the point in time that Brandon got shot, to see if I could see stunt doubles or strange cutting techniques and I'm impressed with the job they did on cutting that film. But it struck me as pretty odd that in the film, brandon lee looks exactly like heath ledger. I mean maybe it is the shaggy hair and makeup but I think it was pretty uncanny. So I brought this up in passing on IRC. OH YEAH and they both died making a movie (so what it happens all the time.) Still, it's getting a bit coincidental.

So at this point I take the time to mention that they look almost identical and both died making a movie that were also both comic book adaptations. At which point liman pops up to tell us all that they were both 28 years old when they died.

So the point of this topic is for me to warn you guys not to make movies involving makeup, based on comic books when you are 28 years old. What a coincidence huh.

To give this topic some other level of credibility I'd like to ask what you guys think of comic book adaptation movies. I mean I did really like the Tim Burton/Keaton batman movies and I did like the crow a lot, but recently I've been getting more and more annoyed with them. Let's be honest Spiderman 3 was ridiculous.

But I'm holding out high hopes for...

OKAY, Film coincidences, comic book adaptations past and present. There's enough discussion here to last us a lifetime...

did all of you guys suddenly forget iron man what's happening here?

Anyways, comic book movies are pretty old hat, they've just gotten popular suddenly because film techniques are now capable of the insane shit you see in them.  I can name a couple of smaller comic book movies in the past including the original Punisher, Phantom, Flash Gordon, Ghost World, Crumb, American Splendor, and the crappy tv Nick Fury.

Man The Punisher was freaking terrible, as was Flash Gordon, Phantom and Nick Fury. I did really enjoy Ghost World and I guess of all of them Phantom was not that bad but I mean. Comic Book adapts have been around for a long time. I mean SUEPERMAN and BATMAN TV shows and stuff have always been around, but they aren't anything spectacular.

I've never been a huge fan of SUPERHEROES though. Not for a while at least, or not unless it is done really well.

wait what do you mean brandon lee and heath ledger died while making films? brandon lee died on set filming a movie, but heath ledger died in his apartment from acute drug intoxication... he just happened to be filming a movie at the time. not really the same thing.

wait what do you mean brandon lee and heath ledger died while making films? brandon lee died on set filming a movie, but heath ledger died in his apartment from acute drug intoxication... he just happened to be filming a movie at the time. not really the same thing.

It wasn't even a major point, the most coincidental stuff was that they both looked exactly the same and they were both 28 and tehy were both dressed up in makeup. I'm not trying to pull some INTERNET CONSPIRACY shit here, I just thought it was weird. People die while making films all the time.

i know im just saying

Yeah but thats pretty weak even for a conspiracy theory!

and i know you're not doing a conspiracy thing bm im just saying!

I'M NOT DOING A CONSPIRACY THING

I KNOW I SAID THAT

they should make a spawn movie that dont suck. :{

i thought heath ledger was way older than 28 @__@

notice how i didn't  mention anything about their quality, i was simply mentioning that they did exist. 

he's gone, marcus... he's gone