With The Dark Knight just around the corner, here are the best of the rest.
04/08/08
10. Batman (1989)
Although looking a bit patchy nearly 20 years later, there is no denying how awesome this looked when I was 12!
I loved every second of this film and it will always be up there as one of my faves!
9. Superman II : The Richard Donner Cut
When the truth emerged that Donner was fired when he had shot a large amount of Superman 2 and replaced by a guy who re-shot most of his great work, I was sad.
Then, thanks mainly to a lot of pressure from the guys at www.supermancinema.co.uk (who really wanted this!) Michael Thau was given the job of making it happen. So, in 2005 it arrived and I loved it!
8. Spider-Man 2
The follow-up to Spider-Man was for a while considered to be the best comic book film sequel (I sense that The Dark Knight will pinch that honour)
I for one, felt it wasn't that great, I actually preferred the first one. I felt that the themes raised in this film had kind of been addressed before and that the amazing L Train sequence was ruined by the damn mask off bit.
If Spider-Man came into your train with no mask on, would you really all keep his identity secret? How many of you have seen something or heard something you know is a secret and then yapped to the first person you meet??
I guess by Spider-Man 6 there will be no need to wear the suit as everyone will know who he is (That would be a studio exec's dream as you will all be able to look at the star and not the costume, which is obviously what they want as it only takes a tiny scratch for him to take the mask off, prick)
7. Blade II
I loved Blade II when I first saw it, I thought it looked great and had some of the most horrible bad guys ever seen with their weird face hugger faces. It was little surprise to then see the director (some guy called Guillermo del Toro) went on to make some of the best and visually stunning films of the last 10 years.
6. X-Men
In many ways Bryan Singer did what Richard Donner did back in 1978, he made everyone stop and look at what the modern day superhero film should be, good!
No one wanted to do a superhero film again after the disastrous Batman & Robin in 1997, but Bryan Singer knew what was needed, comic books films should be made like any other film, not labeled as "camp fun" and full of neon.
Because of the care and attention Singer gave X-Men, others were able to follow and succeed where Batman & Robin failed.
5. Spider-Man
I remember hearing that James Cameron was working on this in the late 80's early 90's with Michael Biehn as the wall-crawler, that was pretty exciting, but Cameron rightly suggested that it would be worth waiting until technology caught up with the idea of a man swinging around the city.
When I heard Sam Raimi would be doing the film, well, I couldn't have been more excited, and it was pretty awesome.
4. X Men 2 (X:2)
Bryan came back and delivered big time, this is a fantastic film and sadly the franchise wasn't given the respect it deserved and was euthanized by a greedy studio and a hack director.
3. Iron Man
In the words of Larry David, pretty good, pretty, pretty good.
Loved this film and cant wait for the others.
2. Batman Begins
Amazing, all the can be said. Spot on in every department, from the great casting, great design to the great nipples (and for once not on the bat-suit, hmm, refreshing)
AND FINALLY...
1. Superman The Movie
You would have to be evil or some sort of weirdo for the John Williams score not to move you to tears or at the very least make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up! Personally, it always makes me think I can fly.
Verisimilitude! Donner said this was the theme of the film, a real world feeling, no campiness (well, a bit) and try and keep this fantastical story grounded in reality as much as possible, not only did he succeed, but he made Hollywood realise that you can make super-hero films seriously and not have "Thwack" or "Bam" all over the screen.
Christopher Reeve really is the only man who I will ever see as Superman, his acting skills are so brilliantly demonstrated in this film, when you see his physical transformation taking off the glasses as Clark Kent in Lois' apartment when he is about to reveal his identity. The shoulders rise and he stands up straight with such authority, then thinks twice and slouches again replacing the glasses. In that 2 minute scene he displays what Superman is all about, a dual personality.
This really is the daddy of them all and a modern masterpiece.
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