[Cecil Terwilliger]

Into the SpiderVerse. Watchmen was close to being great but missed the mark a bit. V for Vendetta is entertaining but botched the source material.

Justice League has no business in the conversation.

Batman Begins, TDK, superman II, spider man 2, Blade, SpiderVerse, infinity war, GOTG, Logan, DOFP.

Maybe X2, Deadpool, Dredd, First Class, Hellboy 2, Sin City, Iron Man, 300.

Some combination of the above is my top 15. No idea how to actually rank them though.

I have a hard time choosing what’s the best. Then we get into conversations like whether Road to Perdition should be on the list. Or A History of Violence.

Are we talking best movie overall? Or best adaptation? Best superhero movie?

TDK has probably the best performance but it’s mid tier at best other than Ledger. The story is borderline nonsensical.

I think I’d put Infinity War, Spider verse and sin city as the top 3 adaptations. They felt the most like watching a comic book come to life.

I feel like there’s a whole bunch of pretty good superhero/comic book movies but very few that are great. It’s hard to nail that mix of being a great movie and being a blockbuster. Usually you pick one. Could there ever be a comic book movie on par with something like Gladiator? Where it is both a top notch film and a blockbuster?