What superhero films have the best cinematography?

[Tacit Ronin]

List 5 superhero films that you think are the best shot in the genre.

For me,

5. Man of Steel (Amir Mokri)

4. Batman Returns (Stephan Czapsky)

3. Spider-man 2 (Bill Pope)

2. Watchmen (Larry Fong)

1. Unbreakable (Euardo Serra)

 

[The Batman]

Superman The Movie
The Dark Knight Trilogy
Man of Steel

 

[Victarion]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Dark Knight Rises
Man of Steel
Iron Man 3
Batman Returns

 

[DarthDaveBanner]

Dark Knight Trilogy
Batman Returns
Hulk '03
Thor
Dick Tracy (if that counts)

 

[Quasimod0]

Guardians of the Galaxy
Thor 2

 

[Batmannerism]

In no particular order

- Watchmen (loved the way that they virtually reproduced panels from the graphic novel)

- The Dark Knight ( Wally Pfister works his magic, especially in the Hong Kong sequences) both Batman Begins and Dark Knight Rises had some great work in them too.

- Man of Steel ( loved the establishing shots of Kansas, as well as all the catastrophic destruction)

- Guardians of the Galaxy (usually I don't like movies with so much CGI, but this one worked !)

- Spider Man (Raimi) the whole trilogy was well shot, particularly liked a few scenes from the first and third films (well, from a cinematography point of view for Spider-Man 3, which wasn't a strong film to end the series on ).

- The Quicksilver scene from DOFP was pretty impressive, probably the best scene Singer's ever done. On that note, although I HATED the film, there were some good shots in Superman Returns too.


Just IMO, as usual.

 

[Harley2004]

Superman
The Dark Knight

 

[dude stannis]

Alphabetical order;

Batman (1989)
Batman Begins
Batman Returns
Blade
Blade II
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises
Hellboy
Hellboy II
Man of Steel
Superman: The Movie
Watchmen

 

[Johnny-Oh]

-Spider-Man trilogy, specially SM2 and SM3.
-The Dark Knight Rises
-Iron Man
-CA The Winter Soldier
-Days of Future Past

 

[The Joker]

The Dark Knight
Days of Future Past

 

[Flint Marko]

Man of Steel was a visual feast but the shaky-cam really got on my nerves.

 

[StarLord]

Watchmen, The Dark Knight and X-Men: Days of Future Past.

 

[kedrell]

Honestly I have no idea. Like editing, it's pretty much invisible to me. I don't tend to think about it at all, not like I think about the acting, the writing or even the score.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

The first movie to come to mind is the first Iron Man movie.

Raimi's Spider-Man and Burton's Batman are great at that too.

 

[Nemeres]

Regardless of the film itself, I liked TASM2's a lot. Sunny, bright, lively, vivid colors. Not the best, but a good one.

 

[kedrell]

^It sure looked good in the trailers. I'll give it that.

 

[Visualiza]

^It sure looked good in the trailers. I'll give it that.

That it did.

 

[Nemeres]

^It sure looked good in the trailers. I'll give it that.

Sho did.

 

[Flint Marko]

Sho nuff.
It's one of those movies that gets worse on repeated viewings (and thats not saying it was good the first time), but I can't deny that I was in awe of the visuals first time I saw it.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Watchmen, The Dark Knight, Superman The Movie.

 

[BMM]

Regardless of the film itself, I liked TASM2's a lot. Sunny, bright, lively, vivid colors.

Agreed. The original shot of Spider-Man swinging the manhole cover in the first trailer is fantastic and one of the things that immediately drew me to the movie. It embodies everything you said--bright, lively, and vivid. It's a shame they changed it.

Also, as mentioned earlier, Superman Returns. It's unfortunate the movie isn't better, but it has some damn good looking moments. I really like the cinematography in The Dark Knight, as well.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

Man of Steel
Watchmen
Spider-Man 2
X-Men Days of Future Past
Hulk

 

[mclay18]

Spider-Man 2
Batman Begins
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Batman (1989)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Man of Steel is outright stunning in spots, but hampered by the overdone handheld shots. Superman Returns would've looked great if Singer and Sigel filmed it on 35mm, not on crappy Panavision Genesis cameras.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Tim Burton's Batman is so well lit and staged, it makes me want to do the cha cha like a sissy girl.

 

[The Endless]

Batman 89
Watchmen
The Dark Knight
Man of Steel
Guardians of the Galaxy