I dont know why people feel compelled to rank them really, they all bring something a little different and just because they feature comic book characters its tough to sort of lump them all together.
TDK featured no super powers.
I like Logan.
They all have their features.
Its easier to rank the ones that suck like hell.
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I just feel much more engaged when there aren’t super powers. It feels more intense. That’s probably an underlying reason why I’d take TDK and Iron Man before all others.
Not that I don’t find superpowers entertaining. They have their place too.
I like Infinity War, I think it's a great fun popcorn flick and it does some things better than TDK. It's certainly more bombastic, has more humor and larger fight scenes. But TDK is a much more grounded and realistic film, it's one of the greatest crime drama's in cinema history, up their with Heat or Goodfellas. TDK is like the complete opposite of IW, I mean look at how the main villain is approached. Heath Ledger gives an oscar winning performance as the Joker just a guy in clown make up. Josh Brolin is completely CGI portraying the mad Titan Thanos.
TDK is a film that will be talked about for the rest of time as being the one that really advanced the superhero film into another level, and I suppose maybe in 10 years we say the same thing about IW. However, everything about TDK is top notch from the amazing director in Nolan, great actors in Bale, Freeman, Ledger, Caine , brilliant practical effects and a perfect score by Hans Zimmer.
So much I disagree with. TDK isn’t even in the same ballpark as Heat or Goodfellas. That’s borderline offensive to me as a movie lover. It also has some glaring issues, as pointed out by another poster, so I won’t list them all. I’ll just reiterate that, much like it’s successor TDKR, it has a totally nonsensical plot.
I also don’t think it represents such a watershed moment for gritty superhero movies. That belongs much more to Batman Begins.
IW also can’t be looked at without considering the other 20 or so movies that tie into the Avengers story. TDK is fairly standalone, despite being a sequel.
They each have their strengths and weaknesses but I’d take Batman Begins or IW any day of the week over TDK or TDKR.
It also has some glaring issues, as pointed out by another poster, so I won’t list them all. I’ll just reiterate that, much like it’s successor TDKR, it has a totally nonsensical plot.
No, you should, because I didn't see them. Or at least refer to what you're talking about. TDKR was absolutely full of plot holes, and was disjointed - it didn't flow well at all and the twist at the end also fell pretty flat. TDK was a fairly character-driven film, and the character in question was Ledger's Joker, who is probably the best villain of any superhero movie I can think of. He's certainly a more interesting character than Thanos is. I haven't watched TDK in a while, but I'm trying to think of some aspect of the plot where I went "wow, that was stupid".
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I also don’t think it represents such a watershed moment for gritty superhero movies. That belongs much more to Batman Begins.
Batman Begins is fine and all, but none of the performances were great (and all of the better ones were by actors who reprised their roles in TDK and by and large did a better job in that film). There was plenty of "wow, that was stupid" in Batman Begins, and as mentioned above, it was a much more paint-by-numbers, plot driven action movie.
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IW also can’t be looked at without considering the other 20 or so movies that tie into the Avengers story. TDK is fairly standalone, despite being a sequel.
This is a fair basis for not comparing the two, but I don't think it's a plus for IW. For one thing, it's not terribly consistent with some of those earlier movies - Vision basically turning into a weakling after effectively being a god-being in the previous couple of movies was a bit stage-slappy for me.
Look, I liked IW plenty. It's a spectacle and there's not a lot of "weak" there. But I am primarily looking for three things in a movie. First, I want a well-written script with strong characters who drive the story. Second, I want the movie to be nice to look at and listen to - not in terms of bright lights and explosions and "whoa" factor, but in terms of colour palate, lighting, and atmosphere. Third, I want some strong performances from leading actors.
In all of those categories, TDK is a better movie than IW. In fact, IW didn't really stand a chance - its script, while well executed in the usual fun "Marvel" way, had to be plot driven because the source material was, and because the story was basically set in motion throughout the preceding films, and simply had to play out to its inevitable fruition. It was the biggest blockbuster in years, so it had to favour big giant CGI-laden visual fests over actual craft in terms of what the thing looked like. And it had far too many characters and plot threads in play to give any of the actors an opportunity to really shine. It was really fantastic for what it was, but I don't think there was any way to do it so that you wouldn't have to add the "for what it was" on the end.
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I only found that out because an ex of mine was reading the books when we met, and she didn't know there were games until I started playing Witcher 2. Neither of us knew it existed in the other medium.
Also, that could easily go either way in terms of being reasonably good or complete crap.
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DC is creating an animated movie based on the excellent Superman:Red Son series which is an alternate "what if" retelling of the Superman story where the pod carrying him crashes in the middle of the Soviet Union instead of the USA
DC is creating an animated movie based on the excellent Superman:Red Son series which is an alternate "what if" retelling of the Superman story where the pod carrying him crashes in the middle of the Soviet Union instead of the USA
Yea one of my favourite alternate world style arcs of all, if DC animated is in charge should be good.
Watched Shazam finally.. it was Ok, but not great. A little bit refreshing I suppose if nothing else.
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