Usually, Batman movies pretend that stuff never happened, but The Lego Batman Movie is a blissful exception. But the fact is that the character can be quite fun and goofy and often has been, such as in the Batman TV show from the late 1960s and his comics adventures from the late ’40s to the early ’70s. These days, you hardly ever see a tale about Batsy in print or film that doesn’t feature heavy doses of angst and meditations on the brutality of daily life. There’s this myth that all Batman stories have to be dark. There’s also a certain amount of Potter Stewart–esque logic here: You know a superhero when you see one. Our criteria for what constitutes a superhero movie are as follows: It must (a) be about a do-gooder or group of do-gooders who have superhuman abilities or are more skilled at crime-fighting than any human possibly could be (Batman and the Punisher being examples of the latter) (b) be set primarily on Earth, which excludes sci-fi fantasias like Star Wars and Guardians of the Galaxy, as both are set in galaxies where superhuman abilities are commonplace and (c) have been released theatrically.
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Here are the 30 best superhero movies since Blade kicked off their modern renaissance (and if you’re a Spider-Man nut, you’ll be glad to know that Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has cracked the top five).īut first, let’s talk about the methodology of this list. It sure feels like we’re in a bubble, but there’s no sign it’ll pop anytime soon - and even when it does pop, there will be plenty of products of this spandex-clad era worth rewatching. High-profile directors get attached to adaptations of comics few have ever heard of.
Studios announce their superhero slates like Stalin announced five-year plans. The so-called Marvel Cinematic Universe alone has raked in more than $10 billion to date, and when a movie like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice makes $872 million, it’s regarded as something of a disappointment. Now we live in a world where the global film economy is largely built on them. In the nearly two decades since, successful caped-crusader movies started trickling, then flooding, into theaters. The picture earned more than $131 million worldwide. On August 21, 1998, Blade was released and audiences watched Snipes don the shades of the titular vampire-stabbing superhero (a longtime Marvel Comics staple). Then Wesley Snipes came along and changed everything. Superhero movies had been few and far between throughout cinema history, and the then-most-recent superpowered flick had been 1997’s Batman and Robin - a movie so derided that George Clooney has spent 20 years apologizing for it. Hell, the idea of an “industry” for movies about costumed heroes was ludicrous. In 1998, predicting a fiscally and artistically rich superhero-movie industry would’ve gotten you laughed out of your local comics shop. This list was first published in 2014, and has been updated periodically to reflect new superhero movie releases. Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture
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