Your Greatest Superhero Film of All Time?

[Lily Adler]

What do you consider to be the Greatest Superhero Film of All Time?

 

[Scarlet Spider]

 

[The Caped Knight]

 

[The Batman]

 

[The Joker]

 

[The Caped Knight]

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Pretty much a tie between The Dark Knight and Batman Returns.

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[KaijuDude1992]

TDK still reigns supreme for me as well because of how much of a game changer it was back in 2008 and the influence it had over the genre for years to come, but The Batman could really give it a run for its money IMO.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Batman Returns still and is always #1 in my heart.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Infinity War or Into the Spider-verse

 

[The Caped Knight]

 

[Breogan]

The first!

 

[Captain Tired]

 

[Gothamsknight]

It cannot be over stated what this movie did for the genre. It also redefined the summer blockbuster too.

 

[Deck Rickard]

This one.

 

[Breogan]

It cannot be over stated what this movie did for the genre. It also redefined the summer blockbuster too.

True....

Superman:

Jerry Siegel - "I loved The Mark of Zorro, and I'm sure that had some influence on me." ..."When writing the script, I had Douglass Fairbanks very much in mind in the athletic stunts that he did too, so the influence of Douglass Fairbanks was not only in the art but in the visual action."​

Joe Shuster - "I was a great fan of Douglas Fairbanks, and so was Jerry and I tried to use his stance, the way Douglass Fairbanks looked, ...with his hands on his hips, in Robin Hood and Mark of Zorro, in all those he had those marvelous attitude..." " [His costume] was inspired by the costume pictures that Fairbanks did: they greatly influenced us. He did The Mark of Zorro, and Robin Hood, and a marvelous one called The Black Pirate - Fairbanks would swing on ropes very much like Superman flying... the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement.​

Batman:

Bill Finger - "Batman was a combination of Douglas Fairbanks [who played Zorro] and Sherlock Holmes."​

Bill Finger- "My idea was to have Batman be a combination of Douglas Fairbanks [Zorro], Sherlock Holmes, The Shadow, and Doc Savage as well."​

Bob Kane -"Zorro’s use of a mask to conceal his identity as Don Diego gave me the idea of giving Batman a secret identity…Bruce Wayne would be a man of means who put on a façade of being effete. Zorro rode a black horse called Tornado and would enter a cave and exit from a grandfather clock in the living room. The bat-cave was inspired by this cave in Zorro. I didn't want Batman to be a Superhero with superpowers…So I made Batman an ordinary human being; he is just an athlete who has the physical prowess of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., who was my all-time favorite hero in the movies.”​

It also redefined the ____ blockbuster too.

Also true...

At the Capitol Theatre on Thanksgiving weekend, in New York City, on Sunday, November 28, 1920 (the general release was set for December 5, 1920), all house attendance records were broken.... collecting $11,706.23; ... considered the Capitol Theatre record, but a worlds record for any single theatre for any single day. November 28, was not the only record breaker, Monday, November 29, was the biggest, non-holiday Monday in the Capitol Theatres history.[9] But the box-office records were not done falling to the sway of The Mark of Zorro, for the one-week showing at the Capitol Theatre, MOZ had 94,501 paid admissions, while taking in $48,103.43, which was another worlds record.[10]

Into 30s-40s Movie Serials, influencing the next gen of creators (Lucas & Spielberg), defining the heroic action heroes films into the 70s-80s, and beyond...

Ilya Salkind- ''I was walking down a street in Paris in 1974 and I saw a poster advertising Zorro,....''The next day out of the blue I said to my father, 'Let's do Superman.'
Superman | The Amazing Story of Superman | Documentary | Warner Bros. Entertainment

 

[BobJM]

My personal favorite, X2: X-Men United.

 

[Green Goblin]

My personal favorite, X2: X-Men United.

Damn I forgot all about X2. That White House scene is one of the best fight sequences in any Marvel film.

 

[The Caped Knight]

 

[BobJM]

Damn I forgot all about X2. That White House scene is one of the best fight sequences in any Marvel film.

The whole movie really just took everything that worked in the first and elevated it. And in 2003, you weren't really getting spoilers via the internet or anything like that; it was such a great theater experience seeing the Phoenix firebird appear underneath the water as Jean completed the narration from X1.

 

[Flint Marko]

I'll be annoying and name 4 I think could take that mantle on any given day for me.

 

[Boy Scout]

Typical, I know, but TDK. I don't see another one topping it any time soon, if ever.

 

[Drizzle]

Even though there are multiple other films in the genre that I love just as much, I'd say The Dark Knight. Up to that point, there had been massive hits like Superman: The Movie, Batman '89 and the Spider-Man trilogy, but TDK was he one that made everyone stop and take the genre seriously outside of the fandom. Apart from its style being copied by multiple Hollywood films in the following years, it was also the reason why the Academy expanded the Best Picture category to include more than five nominees. That's got to count for something. The MCU as a whole has probably influenced the film industry even more but that can't really be credited to only one film considering there are now so many of them that were trailblazers (Iron Man, The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy just to name a few) but even that was still in its infancy when The Dark Knight exploded on the scene.

 

[Mjolnir Reborn]

Even though there are multiple other films in the genre that I love just as much, I'd say The Dark Knight. Up to that point, there had been massive hits like Superman: The Movie, Batman '89 and the Spider-Man trilogy, but TDK was he one that made everyone stop and take the genre seriously outside of the fandom. Apart from its style being copied by multiple Hollywood films in the following years, it was also the reason why the Academy expanded the Best Picture category to include more than five nominees. That's got to count for something. The MCU as a whole has probably influenced the film industry even more but that can't really be credited to only one film considering there are now so many of them that were trailblazers (Iron Man, The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy just to name a few) but even that was still in its infancy when The Dark Knight exploded on the scene.

Regarding the Academy I think they just had the idea to expand so they easier could include popular films that have no real chance of winning (if it did it would be in the five) so they could stop the declining viewership. It's a smaller step in the same vein as their idea to make a best popular film category, so not about celebrating what they think is the best film but to attract attention.

It's not meant as an argument for either good or bad for the film, it's just my thought on something that I still think matters way less than what film any given person likes the most in a question like this.