I think the biggest problem is that when you take something like a comic book, and you strip away the idea that this is in fact a well put together story that people love, and then try to reorganize it into something recognizable to movie fans, you get something.. else. I dont know what.

For instance, if we look at Alan Moore's book V For Vendetta, and then we look at the movie. We get two things so drasticly different. For starts, the time frame is off. The world it takes place in looks flashy and bright, where in the comic it was grainy and poor. The evil government resembles hitler to a degree, but the overwhelming sense of invasion of privacy and hostility from the police force are nowhere in the movie. Neither is the charecters desperation. I mean, Evey, is much older in the comic book(about 10 years), she has flashy, well groomed hair and works for a television studio, in the comic book she was working in a match factory and was trying to score enough money to so she could eat day to day by becoming a hooker. These small details are the types of things that put charecters in situations that are believable.

While the walkoski or what ever, brothers got Evey's torture right, they got everything else wrong and it alienates the viewer, and they left so many questions on the viewers mind. Horrible.

What I love though is something like Sin City where you acctually had the writer/artist present and involved in the story. You made it LOOK like his work, you made it FEEL like his work and most importantly you included the charecters HE made.

I think the stuff about sticking names into roles does hold comic book movies back. I mean I refused to go and watch Catwoman. I love halle barry. I think shes beautiful and fun and have enjoyed many of her movies, but shes awful in X-men and the idea of watching her spit out second rate comic book lines in a movie as the star... wow.

Batman Begins was brilliantly done. You got to care about the main charecter, which is something you almost never get in a super hero movie. They mostly go for the big bang and hi end effects.

What I think people should do is just pick up a graphic novel/tpb of the story they want to transfer and use that as a story board. That'd make it alot easier.