Bestest superhero/comic book movies of all time

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 4, 2026 23:10
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Originally posted by traveler:
Did you hear, they are going to start filming Spiderman 4. I hope it is better then the last one.

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I liked Spider-man 3.
I am a sick puppy, I know.
I also liked X-3.
And both Fantastic Four movies.
And Daredevil (Director's cut)
AND Elektra (Well, the photography & music, anyway...)!
And TMNT!!!!

On the superhero front, I guess I'm easy to please, as long as Batman stars in HIS OWN MOVIE (Batman Returns)!!!! Or as long as Superman fights a DECENT SUPERVILLAIN (Superman IV) or doesn't have a S**T COSTUME (Superman Returns)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




The laughing Chrisisall

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Wait... you prefer Superman IV over Returns.... because of the costume.....

Wow. Just.... damn, man.

Really?

I mean, I can sorta understand liking X3 best, and almost understand liking Spidey 3 (not really, but I'll say so to sound sympathetic).... but Superman 4 just sucks.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Originally posted by Storymark:
but Superman 4 just sucks

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Look, Superman IV is gutter trash, but at least the costume is right (and it's Reeve). Superman returns, while much better produced & directed, just totally loses me with whole speedo-brief/murky-coloured/rubber-cape/choking-collar thing. Honestly, I'd have more fun watching IV. But then, they're both crap, really.

EDIT: I wrote that last post badly anyway- I hated SIV, & both Returns.


The laughing Chrisisall

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Originally posted by Storymark:
Your fondness for the score still amazes me

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As much as I had prepared myself to dislike this score...as much as I thought I'd be among the throngs of haters...and as much as I long for classically-styled scores for superhero films, IRON MAN has won me over.

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http://www.tracksounds.com/reviews/iron_man_ramin_djawadi.htm#

It's not just me, Story.


The laughing Chrisisall

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Well, what did in X-men for me were a few things, but rolled up and totalled, it was the lack of the necessary ambiguity between the sides that cost it so much of it's draw - I mean, in the first one I guess they kinda tried, it's not blatant, but if you look you find that Pyro was the only one who instead of blind acceptance, actually *thought* about the situation and he made his OWN choice.

But that couldn't redeem the utter and total distortion of Magnetos character, there were two lines which struck such a raw note it was unbearable, especially when they were delivered with such COMPLETELY ANVILICIOUS directing and backed up by the soundtrack - so not only did they totally derail the character, they bashed you over the head with it, hard enough to really piss me off, in fact.

The first cringeworthy note ?
"You're not one of us any more."

He never, EVER woulda done that - one of the things that made Magneto so damned seductively ambiguous was that JUST LIKE Xavier, he stood by his own, hell or high water, even when they were in the wrong cause they were HIS people.

And the one that sent me from my seat to the threatre door ?
"This is why pawns go first."

Seriously, WTF ?
Magneto NEVER wasted his people, never abandoned em neither - without the polarity changed similarities between Xavier and Magneto, and their people, the story DOES NOT WORK, it becomes mere tripe and unappetizing.

It was always the fact that Magneto WASN'T a complete monster, that he HAD A POINT and was scarily sympathetic that made him the great villain he was, and best of all, just how similar he and Xavier were beneath his cynicism and Xaviers idealism - how we could all go either way as a matter of what WE chose, the choices WE make.

That was the root of the stories value, and they tossed it out in favor of reducing Magneto to a republic serial villain who is neither sympathetic, nor even very scary - plus they made him STUPID - which he never in a million years would ever be.

Magento woulda used that bridge as a damned bulldozer, scraped that place clean off the map and then dropped it from a half a mile up to finish the job - only reason he'd have brought flunkies at all would be to mop up, make sure, and capture anything of use for deployment against the Xavier and his cronies, and he'd agonise before doing so since that would make him as bad as the folks he was warring against, and would only resort to such in desperation.

Anyhows, I could pick it to death, but you get the idea.

-Frem

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Iron Man
V for Vendetta
Watchmen
Hellboy
Hellboy 2

Mike

Let the wild rumpus start!

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