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Nonsense. X-men was nothing but a furthering of The Matrix style of film. Simple Black suits, people with powers that had no origins and the main guy (Wolverine) was a kung-fu master with attached blades. It paid little to no heed to the comics.
Spider-Man worked from the source material. Gave him an origin, gave him a comic book style villain (X-men didn't have the courage to hire someone of the right age for Magneto or to suit him up in his comic style armor), AN ACCURATE COSTUME and comic style battle scenes. Spidey 1 and all of the Raimi films had problems but it was definitely a new threshold for comic book movies. And the Effects were groundbreaking. You wouldn't have the Avengers if Spidey hadn't been made.
I strongly disagree with your views on X-Men. It may have taken visual cues from the Matrix, but it also paved the way for comic films to be taken seriously and deal with actual themes of social prejudice. There's a lot of comic book material in the film, including an origin (for Magneto) but you must understand that X-Men is a far more complex thing to adapt to film than Spider-man was.
I've never seen Ian McKellen's casting described as a lack of courage before in my life.
Yah....because it's not like films like Batman Begins or Casino Royale had no effect in reboots or anything or has given any inspiration of such.
And Aziz mentioned it already, but X-MEN changed the face of CBMs, not Spider-Man. People seem to always forget that Bryan Singer is the one that really brought CBMs to life and Sam Raimi only went on for the ride in bringing back Spidey. If anything, Spider-Man shouldn't be the one on the list, X-Men should.
I agree about X-Men, but I don't about Begins. It didn't do anything to further comics on-screen. Reboots are hardly something to marvel at, and certainly weren't new at the time either.
97. Star Trek VI: The undiscovered country
64. Sin City
53. The Truman Show
48. Batman Begins
44. Kick-Ass
24. Star Trek (2009)
15. The Fifth Element
14. Inception
These films shouldn't even be on this list. That they included Star Trek VI and didn't include III & IV at all says there's something really wrong here.
And hell- I'd even say that as horrible as the Transformers films are, they expanded the genre more than any of these.
Truman Show is my favourite film so I'm happy to see it up there.
Star Trek and Inception are only there because they're recent.