Best Superhero Films of the Decade

[darkwing_duck1]

I'm gonna throw out a curve and see who flames me for it, but I thought Watchmen was just TERRIBLE.

A 'dark horse' entry into the "best" list for me would be League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Highly underrated movie.

 

[Lapis Exilis]

5. Batman Begins (brought back Batman in a great way, making us forget the last two awful Schumacher films)

Apparently it didn't make anyone forget about the Schumacher movies because everyone still talks about them. Really, guys, I know the nipples on the batsuit traumatized you, but it's been 12 years.

Let it go.

 

[darkwing_duck1]

BTW: would Van Helsing count as a superhero film? It certainly plays like one...

 

[davejames]

I'm gonna throw out a curve and see who flames me for it, but I thought Watchmen was just TERRIBLE.

A 'dark horse' entry into the "best" list for me would be League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Highly underrated movie.

I didn't think LXG was as downright awful as everyone said, but I still wouldn't put it on any best list.

Totally agreed about Watchmen though. Kinda cool the first time with all the hype surrounding it, but on it's own it's just incredibly dull, stilted, and lifeless.

 

[darkwing_duck1]

I'm gonna throw out a curve and see who flames me for it, but I thought Watchmen was just TERRIBLE.

A 'dark horse' entry into the "best" list for me would be League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Highly underrated movie.

I didn't think LXG was as downright awful as everyone said, but I still wouldn't put it on any best list.

Totally agreed about Watchmen though. Kinda cool the first time with all the hype surrounding it, but on it's own it's just incredibly dull, stilted, and lifeless.

For me, it's worse. If anything, it's an anti-heroic movie. I went into the movie "cold", not having read the book, and I knew there was going to be trouble when they introduced the lesbian character in the opening credits.

Not the lesbianism itself, though I objected to that, but the signal it sent that this was going to be one of "those" superhero stories: the type that try to appear "edgy and modern" by taking superheroes and making them decidedly UN-super.

A lesbian character that doesn't even make it out of the credits before getting snuffed, a rapist, and a character who has "personal issues" unless he's in costume just don't cut it as "superheroics" for me.

 

[T'Baio]

You don't say? Hmm. I wonder what the point of the story is, then?

 

[Cpt Cullison]

my list is
The Dark Knight
Watchmen
Darkman
Wolverine Orgins
Spiderman 3

 

[Greg Cox]

You don't say? Hmm. I wonder what the point of the story is, then?

Indeed, there's a reason it was rated R.

WATCHMEN is a great graphic novel, but if you're expecting straightforward, clean-cut, morally unambiguous "heroes" . . . boy, are you in for a shock!

 

[DarKush]

In no particular order:

Spider-Man
Blade 2
X-Men
X-Men 2
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
The Incredibles
Watchmen
Iron Man
The Incredible Hulk
Fantastic Four
Punisher (Thomas Jane)

 

[Chess Piece Face]

Spidey 2
Dark Knight
Spidey 1

That people are putting Superman Returns is blowing my mind. That movie is such a piece of shit.

 

[T'Baio]

But tell us how you really feel!

 

[suarezguy]

Spider-Man 2, Batman Begins, X-Men. All had strong characters, plots and action.

Watchmen was good but had too many flaws in cramming everything in (and having Adrian's point-of-view being marginalized); it's been too long since I've seen The Incredibles and it's hard to compare it to others as it's so different in tone and purpose (I liked it overall but not some of its themes).

 

[Bad Bishop]

Superman Returns is getting a lot of votes because most fans loved the technical qualities of the film, if not its storyline.

5. Batman Begins (brought back Batman in a great way, making us forget the last two awful Schumacher films)

Apparently it didn't make anyone forget about the Schumacher movies because everyone still talks about them. Really, guys, I know the nipples on the batsuit traumatized you, but it's been 12 years.

Let it go.

I've said the same thing. Some fans just seem to enjoy playing the eternal victim to Schumacher, their chosen abuser. It borders on the bizarre.

 

[Goji]

No particular order

X-Men & X2
Batman Begins & The Dark Knight
Hellboy & Hellboy II
Iron Man

 

[T'Baio]

When in reality, anyone would have done what Schumacher did in his position. He's not to blame, the producers and studio were.

 

[Trek4Ever]

The only reason I'm not including V For Vendetta as so many have done is cos it's not a superhero film, even though it is a comic book adaptation.

That's can be debated. While not a traditional superhero with powers, the main character does don a costume and operates like a superhero. Heck you can make the same argument about the Punisher or Elektra.

 

[Trek4Ever]

When in reality, anyone would have done what Schumacher did in his position. He's not to blame, the producers and studio were.

Not necessarily. It depended on who was hired as director. While the producers and Warner Bros should share alot of blame, the director (whoever that should be) must bear some responsibility for the final product. And besides, wasn't Schumacher the one who had the nipples added to the batman costume?

 

[T'Baio]

After the reaction to Batman Returns, the studio wanted a lighter, brighter, more fun, family affair with lots of possibilities for toys and other merchandise toy ins. Burton said he wasn't their man, so they shopped around for other directors, looking for others with a past in design, but the exact opposite of Burton. That led them to Schumacher, who had a few pet projects that he had wanted to get off the ground. Schumacher made the deal to do the Batman films so that he had the money, clout and green light to do his personal projects, and made the two Batman films the studio was clamouring for.

 

[Captaindemotion]

*Inner Pedant - I wish people would stop citing V For vendetta. The title is superhero movies, not comic adaptation movies. V is a vigilante but he's not really a superhero.

Pedantry over. I'd vote for

The Dark Knight
Batman Begins
Spider-man 2
Iron Man
Spider-man
X-Men 2
Blade Trinity
X-Men
Superman Returns
Daredevil (so sue me).

 

[darkwing_duck1]

^ I would submit that as a "costumed adventurer" who "fights evil", that V would qualify under the broad definition of a superhero.