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Thursday, May 25, 2023

Super Hero Movies: Top 25

image from The Dark Knight

Top 25 Super Hero Movies

This list of the top 25 super hero movies of all time was created by aggregating the resources at the bottom of this page along with box office, movie ratings, and overall ranking in Dave’s Movie Database.


1. The Dark Knight (2008)
2. Logan (2017)
3. Iron Man (2008)
4. Wonder Woman (2017)
5. The Avengers (2012)

6. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
7. Superman: The Movie (1978)
8. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
9. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
10. The Incredibles (2004)

11. Captain America: Civil War (2016)
12. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
13. Black Panther (2018)
14. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
15. Batman Begins (2005)

16. Deadpool (2016)
17. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
18. Thor: Ragnorak (2017)
19. X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
20. X2: X-Men United (2003)

21. Batman (1989)
22. Unbreakable (2000)
23. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
24. Spider-Man (2002)
25. Avengers: Endgame (2019)


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Originally posted 8/31/2019; last updated 5/25/2023.

Friday, May 4, 2012

The Avengers opened in theaters

The Avengers


Released: May 4, 2012


Studio: Disney


Genre: super hero


Box Office (numbers in millions):

Domestic: 623.40 Worldwide: 1520.54


Adjusted for Inflation:

Domestic: 754.28 Worldwide: 1750.00

Directing: Joss Whedon


Screenwriting: Joss Whedon, Zak Penn


Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston

Review:

Critic Roger Ebert called this “the Westminster Dog Show of superheroes.” RE Starting with Iron Man (Downey) in 2008, Marvel introduced a slate of their famed comic book heroes to the big screen including Hulk (Ruffalo), Thor (Hemsworth), and Captain America (Evans) via freestanding movies. This brings them all together, as well as Black Widow (Johansson) and Hawkeye (Renner), for all-star conclusion to Phase One of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The Avengers must band together to stave off a threat from Thor’s adopted brother, Loki (Hiddleston). He plans to open a gateway to the universe via a pulsing cube of energy known as the Tesseract. He’ll then attack Earth “with his fleet of reptile-looking monster-machines.” RE

Of course, bringing these super egos together makes for some reopened rivalries until they do what Ebert says “was so highly valued on my first-grade report card: the concept of Working Well With Others.” RE

The film traverses familiar territory. “There must be a threat. The heroes must be enlisted. The villain must be dramatized. Some personality defects are probed. And then the last hour or so consists of special effects in which large mechanical objects engage in combat that results in deafening crashes and explosions and great balls of fire.” RE

Still, it is “done well by Joss Whedon, with style and energy.” RE He “not only pulled off a colossal character-juggling act, he also pushed the studio’s commercial success to a much higher level. It’s still one of the best-scripted Marvels, and we’ve yet to see a villain on more entertainingly nefarious form than Tom Hiddleston’s Loki was here.” EM

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Wins: 0

Nominations: 1: Best Achievement in Visual Effects


First posted 5/25/2023.