BOT's Top Comic Book Movies of All Time! - WE’RE IN THE ENDGAME NOW

[TMP]

3 minutes ago, tawasal said:

good ones ... sin city.

Debatable. 

[cannastop]

1 hour ago, The Panda said:

73.    Only Yesterday

[tawasal]

13 minutes ago, TMP said:

Debatable. 

Everything is. 

[Joyous Legion]

2 minutes ago, tawasal said:

Everything is. 

Debatable.

[Dementeleus]

26 minutes ago, tawasal said:

I am 50/50 on the top 10. 

I have seen a lot of non supes, but they are disappointing to list. 

I haven't seen some of the good ones yet, such oldboy 2003 and sin city.

 

 

[tawasal]

3 minutes ago, Thanos Legion said:

Debatable.

Everything is.

[tawasal]

4 minutes ago, Plain Old Tele said:

 

 

Top 10 and fillers. 

 

Edit: My computer seems to be judging me. It just went off after I replied to your previous post. 

Edited August 17, 2019 by tawasal

[Spidey Freak]

2 hours ago, The Panda said:

After Black Panther, there is a sizable jump in the point totals.  I feel like it's safe enough to go ahead and reveal the 51-100 portion of the list.

 

51.    Man of Steel 
52.    Kingsman: The Secret Service
53.    The Death of Stalin
54.    Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
55.    Kick-Ass 
56.    Avengers: Age of Ultron 
57.    Big Hero 6 
58.    Aquaman 
59.    X-Men (2000) 
60.    Batman (1966) 
61.    Doctor Strange
62.    300
63.    Ant-Man 
64.    Thor 
65.    The Mask
66.    Sin City 
67.    Edge of Tomorrow
68.    Blade 
69.    The Crow 
70.    The Rocketeer 
71.    Batman v Superman
72.    Josie and the Pussycats
73.    Only Yesterday
74.    The Incredible Hulk
75.    Hellboy 

76.    Mystery Men

76.    A Silent Voice
77.    The Adventures of Tintin
78.    Mystery Men
79.    Blade 2
80.    In This Corner of the World
81.    TMNT (1990)
82.    Ant-Man and the Wasp
83.    Porco Russo
84.    The Peanuts Movie
85.    Blue is the Warmest Color
86.    X-Men: Apocalypse
87.    Hulk (2003)
88.    Dragonball: Evolutions
89.    American Splendor
90.    Lady Snowblood
91.    Green Lantern
92.    We Are the Best!
93.    Howard the Duck
94.    Daredevil
95.    Spider-Man 3
96.    Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
97.    Electra
98.    Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders
99.    Dark Phoenix
100.    Red

Wait, did I miss Deadpool 2 in the Top 50 or did people forget about it altogether for it to not even make the Top 100? Damn.

[Cap]

8 minutes ago, Spidey Freak said:

Wait, did I miss Deadpool 2 in the Top 50 or did people forget about it altogether for it to not even make the Top 100? Damn.

This is what happens when @Nova goes off for exams. 

[cax16]

3 hours ago, The Panda said:

After Black Panther, there is a sizable jump in the point totals.  I feel like it's safe enough to go ahead and reveal the 51-100 portion of the list.

 

51.    Man of Steel 
52.    Kingsman: The Secret Service
53.    The Death of Stalin
54.    Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
55.    Kick-Ass 
56.    Avengers: Age of Ultron 
57.    Big Hero 6 
58.    Aquaman 
59.    X-Men (2000) 
60.    Batman (1966) 
61.    Doctor Strange
62.    300
63.    Ant-Man 
64.    Thor 
65.    The Mask
66.    Sin City 
67.    Edge of Tomorrow
68.    Blade 
69.    The Crow 
70.    The Rocketeer 
71.    Batman v Superman
72.    Josie and the Pussycats
73.    Only Yesterday
74.    The Incredible Hulk
75.    Hellboy 

76.    Mystery Men

76.    A Silent Voice
77.    The Adventures of Tintin
78.    Mystery Men
79.    Blade 2
80.    In This Corner of the World
81.    TMNT (1990)
82.    Ant-Man and the Wasp
83.    Porco Russo
84.    The Peanuts Movie
85.    Blue is the Warmest Color
86.    X-Men: Apocalypse
87.    Hulk (2003)
88.    Dragonball: Evolutions
89.    American Splendor
90.    Lady Snowblood
91.    Green Lantern
92.    We Are the Best!
93.    Howard the Duck
94.    Daredevil
95.    Spider-Man 3
96.    Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
97.    Electra
98.    Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders
99.    Dark Phoenix
100.    Red

Edited August 17, 2019 by cax16

[Menor the Destroyer]

1 hour ago, Spidey Freak said:

Wait, did I miss Deadpool 2 in the Top 50 or did people forget about it altogether for it to not even make the Top 100? Damn.

Seconded how tf could it not be on the list

[The Panda]

 

Iron Man (2008)

Directed by Jon Favreau

Based on "Iron Man" by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Larry Lieber and Don Heck

(173 Points, 39 Votes)

 

"I am Iron Man."

 

Number 2 Placements: 1

Top 4 Placements: 2

Top 6 Placements: 7

Top 10 Placements: 18

Awards Count: Nominated for 2 Oscars

Box Office: 318.4m (399.6m Adjusted)

Metacritic: 78

Synopsis: Tony Stark. Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist. Son of legendary inventor and weapons contractor Howard Stark. When Tony Stark is assigned to give a weapons presentation to an Iraqi unit led by Lt. Col. James Rhodes, he's given a ride on enemy lines. That ride ends badly when Stark's Humvee that he's riding in is attacked by enemy combatants. He survives - barely - with a chest full of shrapnel and a car battery attached to his heart. In order to survive he comes up with a way to miniaturize the battery and figures out that the battery can power something else. Thus Iron Man is born. He uses the primitive device to escape from the cave in Iraq. Once back home, he then begins work on perfecting the Iron Man suit. But the man who was put in charge of Stark Industries has plans of his own to take over Tony's technology for other matters.

Critic Opinion: "Could there be a more American superhero than Iron Man? He's not just a crime fighter, he's a weapons system. This adaptation of the long-running Marvel Comics series, directed by Jon Favreau, is steeped in machine tooling and digital information screens, with men doing battle while bolted inside gigantic high-tech metal contraptions. Robert Downey Jr. gives a nicely sardonic performance as Tony Stark, a rich playboy and the brilliant heir to his father's weapons manufacturing dynasty. The movie is so clever and smoothly paced that it's easy to overlook the odious story line, in which Stark suffers an attack of conscience during a disastrous trip to Afghanistan, realizes his corporation is supplying Taliban-like bad guys, and goes after them in his iron death suit. Of course coming back to destroy his own stuff makes him the perfect metaphor for the U.S., an irony Favreau ignores." - J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

User Opinion: "TONY STARK *pause* WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS *pause* IN A CAVE *pause* WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!

 

Still the best of the MCU." - @darkelf

Commentary: The movie that kicked off the MCU and got all of this madness started.  Iron Man by that regard, is one of the more unique films in the franchise formula wise as the classic cinematic structure the universe often relies upon hadn't been made yet.  Iron Man comes across as freshly detached from all of the other madness going on in the Universe, it's able to wholly do it's own thing as there were no other wheels to spin yet.  Perhaps this is why Iron Man remained the most critically acclaimed MCU movie for ten years, all until the release of Black Panther, which while not as detached as Iron Man, felt like it had its own isolated story to tell.

Box Office Count: Under 100m (14), 100m (8), 200m (4), 300m (6), 400m (6), 700m (1)

Decade Count: 70s (1), 80s (4), 90s (4), 00s (11), 10s (19)

Director Count: Miyazaki (2), Watts (2), Burton (2), Gunn (2), Singer (2), Black (1), Boden (1), Chan-Wook (1), Coogler (1), Cronenberg (1), Donner (1), Favreau (1), Jenkins (1), Johnston (1), Joon-ho (1), Lester (1), McTeigue (1), Mendes (1), Nolan (1), Oshii (1), Otomo (1), Parannaud (1), Radomski (1), Raimi (1), Rodriguez (1), Russo (1), Sandberg (1), Satrapi (1), Snyder (1), Sonnenfield (1), Timm (1), Travis (1), Vaughn (1), Wachowski (1), Waititi (1), Wright (1), Zwigoff (1)

Franchise Count: MCU (11), Chris Evans (5), Batman (4), Iron Man (4), Spider-Man (4), X-Men (3), Black Panther (2), Captain America (2), DCEU (2), Guardians of the Galaxy (2), Studio Ghibli (2), Superman (2), Dredd (1), Hulk (1), Men in Black (1), Thor (1), Wonder Woman (1)

 

 

 

[The Panda]

1 minute ago, Menor said:

Seconded how tf could it not be on the list

Deadpool 2 was in the 101-110 range somewhere

[TalismanRing]

Perhaps this is why Iron Man remained the most critically acclaimed MCU movie for ten years, all until the release of Black Panther, which while not as detached as Iron Man, felt like it had its own isolated story to tell.

 

I guess Avengers doesn't count if one only goes by wacky Metacritic.   GOTG, CW, TWS - are also pretty much on the same critical level as IM.

 

Also, - was that the least flattering good critical review you could find? 

 

 

[TalismanRing]

14 minutes ago, The Panda said:

Deadpool 2 was in the 101-110 range somewhere

Under Green Lantern 

 

 

 

[Joyous Legion]

21 minutes ago, The Panda said:

Iron Man comes across as freshly detached from all of the other madness going on in the Universe, it's able to wholly do it's own thing as there were no other wheels to spin yet. Perhaps this is why Iron Man remained the most critically acclaimed MCU movie for ten years, all until the release of Black Panther, which while not as detached as Iron Man, felt like it had its own isolated story to tell.

Pretty motivated way to put things, lol. BP is the most critically acclaimed, but the next tier down is full of movies that embrace the larger setting -- IM1+ TA, TWS, CW, Endgame, SMH, Ragnarok,...   

Edit: And I see TalismanRing beat me to the punch

Edited August 17, 2019 by Thanos Legion

[baumer]

Iron Man imo should be top 5. In fact it should even be top 3. It's a fantastic effort from all involved and might be the single most influential and important comic book movie of all time.

[The Panda]

 

Batman Begins (2005)

Directed by Christopher Nolan

Based on "The Man Who Falls" by Dennis O'Neil and Dick Giordano

(180 Points, 39 Votes)

 

"Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up."

 

Number 1 Placements: 1

Top 2 Placements: 3

Top 4 Placements: 6

Top 6 Placements: 10

Top 10 Placements: 13

Awards Count: Nominated for 1 Oscar

Box Office: 205.3m (288.6m Adjusted)

Metacritic: 70

Synopsis: When his parents are killed, billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne relocates to Asia, where he is mentored by Henri Ducard and Ra's Al Ghul in how to fight evil. When learning about the plan to wipe out evil in Gotham City by Ducard, Bruce prevents this plan from getting any further and heads back to his home. Back in his original surroundings, Bruce adopts the image of a bat to strike fear into the criminals and the corrupt as the icon known as "Batman". But it doesn't stay quiet for long.

Critic Opinion: "One benefit of not being a comic-book fanboy or -girl is the immunity such dispassion grants: No blood-pressure crises are likely to arise over arguments pertaining to whether Batman Begins lives up to the franchise launched 16 years ago by director Tim Burton and Batman No. 1, Michael Keaton, then sullied — tsk! — eight years ago by director Joel Schumacher and Batman No. 3, George Clooney, with that unholy nippled Batsuit. My intelligent-nonspecialist-person’s requirements for any summertime live-action movie based on a comic book are simply, neutrally these: (1) Make it fun (that’s where The Hulk fell down); (2) make it fresh (that’s where X2 was such an advance over X-Men); (3) make it meaty (that’s where Spider-Man 2 was a feast).  And by these standards, Batman Begins, directed by indie-oriented storyteller Christopher Nolan (Memento), is a triumph — a confidently original, engrossing interpretation, with a seriously thought-through (but never self-serious) aesthetic point of view that announces, from the get-go, someone who knows what he’s doing is running the show, and he’s modestly unafraid to do something new. The movie reenergizes Bruce Wayne and his winged mammalian disguise for a 21st-century relaunch, after the Hollywoodized Caped Crusader had giggled and vamped to a dead end with 1997’s Batman & Robin. And it advances and deepens the mythology by showing, quite meticulously (but with flits of fanged humor), how childhood trauma led the rich young orphan to burrow down deep into his anger and guilt so that when he emerged, he was able to become the Dark Knight, grim savior of a city going to hell." - Lisa Schwarzbaum

User Opinion: "Superior to The Dark Knight" - @4815162342

Commentary: The beginning of the Nolan trilogy that took the world, and more specifically the internet, by storm.  Batman Begins had to take a superhero that was in the gutter after Batman and Robin, and then somehow manage to rebuild the good will for the popular hero.  Against all corporate pressures that may have been on him, then indie master director Christopher Nolan crafted an opening song to his epic trilogy.  He managed to ignore what people had come to expect from a Batman and superhero movie and created his own vision of Gotham City that ended up defining a period in blockbuster filmmaking.

Box Office Count: Under 100m (14), 100m (8), 200m (5), 300m (6), 400m (6), 700m (1)

Decade Count: 70s (1), 80s (4), 90s (4), 00s (12), 10s (19)

Director Count: Miyazaki (2), Nolan (2), Watts (2), Burton (2), Gunn (2), Singer (2), Black (1), Boden (1), Chan-Wook (1), Coogler (1), Cronenberg (1), Donner (1), Favreau (1), Jenkins (1), Johnston (1), Joon-ho (1), Lester (1), McTeigue (1), Mendes (1), Oshii (1), Otomo (1), Parannaud (1), Radomski (1), Raimi (1), Rodriguez (1), Russo (1), Sandberg (1), Satrapi (1), Snyder (1), Sonnenfield (1), Timm (1), Travis (1), Vaughn (1), Wachowski (1), Waititi (1), Wright (1), Zwigoff (1)

Franchise Count: MCU (11), Batman (5), Chris Evans (5), Iron Man (4), Spider-Man (4), X-Men (3), Black Panther (2), Captain America (2), DCEU (2), Guardians of the Galaxy (2), Studio Ghibli (2), Superman (2), Dredd (1), Hulk (1), Men in Black (1), Thor (1), Wonder Woman (1)

 

 

 

[The Panda]

11 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

Perhaps this is why Iron Man remained the most critically acclaimed MCU movie for ten years, all until the release of Black Panther, which while not as detached as Iron Man, felt like it had its own isolated story to tell.

 

I guess Avengers doesn't count if one only goes by wacky Metacritic.   GOTG, CW, TWS - are also pretty much on the same critical level as IM.

 

Also, - was that the least flattering good critical review you could find? 

 

 

Even by RT standard, Iron Man was more acclaimed than those.  And I am trying to not re-use critics, and I liked his excerpt 🤷‍♂️

[Menor the Destroyer]

10 minutes ago, baumer said:

Iron Man imo should be top 5. In fact it should even be top 3. It's a fantastic effort from all involved and might be the single most influential and important comic book movie of all time.

In importance yes (although I think Avengers and TDK top it). To me though it feels like it runs out of momentum after the first scene with the Mark 3 (Gulmira fight). That's why I don't rank in the top tier of the MCU.