The Infinity Wars thread made me think about what superhero films I liked the best. I'm really not a fan of the genre, but I end up seeing everything. I must be very dumb.

(for the record, I started writing this post and then got caught in an endless pit of films - I stopped before being done, I realize I'm missing the original Superman films and probably lots of others but damn this was too long)

Here's how it goes for me (I looked at my IMDB ratings with the superhero key word for a start):

1) Birdman
2) The Dark Knight
3) Black Panther
4) The Crow
5) Batman Begins
6) Batman (1989)
7) Batman Returns
8) The Dark Knight Rises
9) V for Vendetta
10) Watchmen
11) Iron Man
12) Deadpool
13) Logan
14) Guardians of the Galaxy
15) Unbreakable
16) Spider-Man: Homecoming
16) Captain America: Civil War
18) Spider-Man
19) X-Men
20) The Avengers
21) Spider-Man 2
22) Iron Man 2
23) Man of Steel
24) Captain America: The Winter Soldier
25) The Punisher (1989)
26) The Wolverine
27) X: First Class
28) Avengers: Infinity War
29) The Incredible Hulk
30) Avengers: Age of Ultron
31) X-Men: First Class
32) X2
33) Captain America: The First Avenger
34) The Amazing Spider-Man
35) X-Men: Apocalypse
36) X-Men: Days of Future Past
37) Doctor Strange
38) Iron Man 3
39) X-Men: The Last Stand
40) The Punisher (2004)
41) Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice
42) Spider-Man 3
43) Fantastic Four (2015)
44) The Amazing Spider-Man 2
45) Punisher: War Zone
46) Batman Forever
47) Batman & Robin
48) Daredevil

 

It's true of all art, but with objects of such low substance created for entertainment purpose first, it's really hard to argue an objective position. Thanks for the list.

I thought of two other superhero films that I haven't ranked in my original post: American Hero and Hancock (two films with similar premises). The Dorff one would probably rank just below Logan, the Will Smith one I don't remember too well, probably about 30th...

 

Try American Hero, same premise as Hancock, without the crappy humour. I think I've seen that Super Ex Girlfriend too, damn that was bad... As for the original superman movies, I know I skipped them, and I know I kind of liked them back then, but I'd have to see them again, as I remember, the series went down the craphole pretty fast, no?

 

Saw it. Fun film, but way too much (and not that good) CGI. I guess I'd squeeze it around 12-15.

 

I've seen quite a few since the original post and should probably update my list too.

As for B characters, I wouldn't worry too much, Disney will get back the X-Men and the Netflix crew - with Wolverine and Daredevil around, they can launch quite a few new films. I doubt they can do anything with the Punisher after the Netflix series though, they should wait a while so that everybody forgets about Bernthal before trying anything else (the Disney channel won't allow the violence needed to portray that character, wonder what they'll do with Deadpool too).

 

Added 7 titles, still nothing as bad as Daredevil...

1) Birdman
2) The Dark Knight
3) Black Panther
4) The Crow
5) Batman Begins
6) Batman (1989)
7) Batman Returns
8) The Dark Knight Rises
9) V for Vendetta
10) Watchmen
11) Iron Man
12) Deadpool
13) Logan
14) American Hero
15) Guardians of the Galaxy
16) Unbreakable
17) Spider-Man: Homecoming
18) Thor: Ragnarok
19) Captain America: Civil War
20) Spider-Man
21) X-Men
22) The Avengers
23) Spider-Man 2
24) Iron Man 2
25) Man of Steel
26) Captain America: The Winter Soldier
27) The Punisher (1989)
28) The Wolverine
29) X: First Class
30) Avengers: Infinity War
31) The Incredible Hulk
32) Avengers: Age of Ultron
33) X-Men: First Class
34) X2
35) Hellboy
36) Thor
37) Captain America: The First Avenger
38) Hancock
39) The Amazing Spider-Man
40) X-Men: Apocalypse
41) X-Men: Days of Future Past
42) Doctor Strange
43) Iron Man 3
44) X-Men: The Last Stand
45) Ant-Man
46) The Punisher (2004)
47) Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice
48) Spider-Man 3
49) Ant-Man & the Wasp
50) Fantastic Four (2015)
51) The Amazing Spider-Man 2
52) Punisher: War Zone
53) Batman Forever
54) Batman & Robin
55) Daredevil

 

I was going to pick on you for your F4 post, but ok, if Lincoln is in it, I too would want to watch it... I've only seen the last attempt to adapt this lousy superhero team and that was pathetic! I haven't even seen the Silver Surfer yet! (how can you put that shit on screen?). Oh I've also watched a documentary about the making of the Roger Corman adaptation... Ahahahah,..

But well, ok, Lincoln, I'm listening...

 

Have you seen Birdman? Of course, you have to be open minded to consider it a "superhero movie", but it's very good.

And the Nolan effort is really apart from the rest here too, I agree. Black Panther is really special to me because of what it represents, but as a film, there's quite a gap after #2. And a huge one after #9.