Question of the week: favorite superhero movie?
Welcome to Question of the Week, which is designed to inspire interesting discussions of enjoyable topics.
This week’s question: what is your favorite superhero movie? No wrong answers, of course, including “I don’t like superhero movies.”
The inspiration for the question was the fact that superhero movies are such a major part of pop culture. Nowadays when people think of superhero movies they usually think of Marvel, but there were major superhero movies before the Marvel Cinematic Universe approach really got going.
For myself, I think my favorite superhero movies would be the Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale DARK KNIGHT trilogy. Strong performances, great action, and they managed to do something very difficult, namely bring a satisfying end to a superhero’s story arc. It almost feels like the DARK KNIGHT movies are the “real events” of Batman, and all the other comics and cartoons and movies are legends and exaggerations after the fact, like how the whole glittering mythos of “King Arthur and the Round Table” developed around an obscure Roman-British warlord in the 500s AD.
Also, Heath Ledger’s version of the Joker was amazing.
-JM
If I had to pick just one it would probably be the Guardians of the Galaxy, the first film had a near perfect mix of action, drama and comedy.
For me the best Batman film was the 1966 one staring Adam West.
In the last millennium, when I was a child, we had DC comics and Marvel comics. I did like Batman in DC, Spiderman and the Avengers in Marvel.
In the movies I did not particularly like Batman, but I like the early Marvel movies: Avengers 1 and Captain America 2 most.
X-men
Then, I haven’t watched many
1978 Superman. Visually at 15 I believed a man could fly.