EDITORIAL: Top 10 Comic Book Movies

Pretty good choices, If it were my list I'd take out Spiderman 2, Batman, and Iron Man and put in Hellboy, X2, and Incredible Hulk

Good list! I hate it when people list three of Nolan's Bat movies as one movie though, they really aren't one story and are all not the same quality. But hey everyone has different opinions. Mine are still
Honorable mention:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
X-Men (2000)
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Hellboy (2004)

10. Dredd (2012)
9. The Dark Knight (2008)
8. Sin City (2005)
7. Watchmen Director's Cut
6. Iron Man (2008)
5. Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (2008)
4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
3. X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
2. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
1. The Avengers (2012)

Good list, but for me, I don't see what's so damn special about the TDK trilogy. I loved each movie, Batman Begins the most, but none of them makes it into my top 5, thanks to GOTG.

1. Cap2
2. GOTG
3. Avengers
4. Iron Man
5. Spidey2(Raimi)
6. Batman Begins
7. DOFP
8. X2
9. Watchmen
10. V for Vendetta

Honorable mentions: Spidey(Raimi), TDK/TDKR, X-Men, Sin City, Dredd, and Thor.

I would've added in Man of Steel, but I got a lot of shit for putting it in my other editorial. Didn't want to risk even more backlash smh lol.

nice list I would have the first 300 and man of steel in there too

@virile man

The whole prison thing is kind of weird, I don't think Bane is respected and adored int he prison, he rules with fear (makes sense, yeah?). So when Bane kills someone for telling his tale or whatever, people learn not to tell it. The doctor knows of Bane's wrath all too well because Bane hates him for irreversibly messing up his treatment. So Bane keeps that doctor down their as his punishment, the doctor has every reason to hate Bane and wish for Bruce's success, but at the same time, Bruce is a broken man and he has no faith in him at first. I don't know how Bruce convinces these guys that he is the one who can defeat their oppressor, but he does, which is why they all support him so much in hist attempts to escape the prison.

As for the jump, I think you missed the whole point. Bruce was not the only fit adult male in that prison, if anyone could make the jump, you'd expect it to be one of them, not a little girl... that's the point. She burned her bridges, she couldn't afford to mess up, which is why you have to dump the rope. You have no back up, no plan b so plan a has to succeed.

I'd also like to know which Bane v Batman fight you are referring to as "two drunk guys boxing it out" if it's the first fight, then you are dead wrong, that is easily the best comic book movie fight scene. If you mean the final one, it was mildly lack luster but still succeeded at everything it had to in showing that Batman and Bane had no reversed roles.

The whole getting back to Gotham bit is so exasperated, should it have been better explained? yes. Did it have to be explained for the plot? no. We see in the Dark Knight and Batman Begins that Bruce knows his way around the world, and get from one side of the world to the other with no money or identification. That was like a huge portion of Batman Begins that people tend to forget. As for getting into Gotham, it was obviously possible as the CIA got somebody in.

As for trusting Selena making him a shit detective, he was right wasnt he? She did end up doing the right thing, just because someone does something illogical to us does not mean it lacks in logic or deductive reasoning. It's harder to understand in film compared to comics because we don't have thought boxes to narrate to us what our hero is thinking, but Batman was right in the long run, so I call it a win.

If Batman had stayed in the Bat to aid the cops, what would he have done? It's easy to disarm a tank, but is he just going to fire rockets into the crowds of Bane's men and potential Gotham citizens? That's not Batman's style, besides he needed to find the trigger man and interrogations don't work too well when you are threatening a group of people with death when they have nothing to lose. The criminals did use the guns they were holding, this was explicitly shown when we see the front lines men have been gunned down.

Now correct me in my wrong, but I always assumed that the whole leg being shit thing was because of his fall after killing Dent, that went untreated for years. I can tell you right now, I have a knee problem just because I fell of my bike a while ago and never got it treated, so i can completely understand his leg being that messed up when he fell from a height that broke Maroni's legs and didn't have it taken care of.

I mean if you don't understand why Bane was torturing Gotham , then you didn't pay attention to the film, that's not their fault, that's yours. It was explicitly stated that he was doing exactly that, torturing gotham. For a multitude of reasons that were either deliberately stated or could be picked up with context clues. As Bane states, he is fulfilling Ra's Al Ghul's destiny. He is proving what the Joker hypothesized, that when he chips are down these people will eat each other. This proves that Gotham truly is lost and cannot be saved, which is Ra's' point in Batman Begins.He was also torturing Gotham as means of torturing Bruce, which was CLEARLY stated in the movie where Bane explains his plan. Bane letting these people leave was just another level of his idea of poisoning people with false hope, he knows no one can cross the ice and even if they could, they would probably be gunned down upon reaching the other side. The mere thought that they could get across though keeps the groveling to Bane's delight.

The fact that the clock was getting so close to detonation is what drove Bruce to ditching the rope and making his way out of the pit. It's a bit convenient, but he knew when it was going off, and the closer it got the more people began to do something about it.

This is so stupid to have to explain, but those weren't just polic barricades, they are panels built into the street that can rise up to block traffic. Usually cars and trucks, how would the police have known that they would come racing out of a stock exchange on motor cycles?

Batman may be widely considered to be a murderer by the masses, but that doesn't mean that everyone believes that. I would take it that a lot of kids and teens pass around urban legends and stories about how Batman was actually a hero, stories which could have been started by John Blake. I'm sure if he ever heard a kid at the boy's home bad mouthing Batman, he would attempt to put them in their place. Eventually stories like that get around, so yeah some people will hate the Batman, but not everyone believes he was a bad guy. Again this was established in the movie through John Blake and the kid.

The lack of nuclear fallout was dumb, it's one of those things that irritated me in the film, but thats nitpicking. As for how to turn the clean energy thing into a bomb, we don't really know how long it took because of all those cuts. He starts doing it, they cut, and then hes done. There is no expressed amount of time, but even if it was that short, this is a fictional device being modified by a fictional scientist, we don't know the logistics of either one of these factors and to explore them would have been tedious and irrelevant.

"Hey, are you Bruce Wayne?" "No" "Well you look alot like him." "Thanks, I get that alot." Not mention that it had been 8 years since he been constantly active, I'm sure most people just forgot who he was completely.

As for those last nitpicks, it was all there just to look cool, no real reasoning to it.

It's not a perfect movie, but it's still good. Too often people on this site use nitpicks as legitimate criticisms. That isn't to say nitpicks can't build up into a bigger problem.

The Dark Knight Rises flame war! Two years after the movie came out the battle rages on...

@ScottMontgomery

The fire rises. Some fights never end, Man of Steel, Iron Man 3, and Dark Knight Rises will always be points of contention. At least this year most everyone agreed with consensus about all the comic book movies.

Top 10 for me:
1. The Dark Knight
2. V for Vendetta
3. Iron Man
4. Man of Steel
5. Guardians of the Galaxy
6. Batman Begins
7. The Avengers
8. Superman 2
9. Spider-Man 2
10. Kick-Ass
I just watched CA:TWS yesterday and do not understand the love for the film. I never felt and real tension nor suspense and with it being Disney I knew no character I cared about would die. I was rather bored during the film. GOTG was a far superior and far more fun.

Such an amazing and agreeable list. You have good taste.
As for my list:

1. The Dark Knight Trilogy
2. Guardians of the Galaxy
3. The Avengers
4. Man of Steel
5. Captain America The Winter Soldier
6. X-men Days of Future Past
7. Spider-man 2
8. Iron Man
9. Captain America The First Avenger
10.Blade 2