I love the first Burton Batman movie; I think it’s a great movie, a for-the-ages movie. I think the second one’s alright but sort of a warning sign on the road to Burton’s Hot Topic hackdom today; it also always bothered me that it took Batman’s two primary sane antagonists and made them crazy. Schumacher’s Batman movies are very dumb. I think all the X-Men movies are rarely less than okay and rarely more than good, I think I like the third one best in terms of the visuals and that hotsy-totsy scene with Jean Grey and Wolverine, but I have no desire to re-watch any of them. I thought the first two Spider-Man movies were absolutely miserable, utterly self-serious twaddle, though there were some good Doctor Octopus fight scenes in the second one like that one on the side of the building; I liked my airplane viewing of the third one, especially the jazz dance, but don’t care if I never see that one again. I enjoy the Daredevil movie despite its leaden leads, it’s got good fight scenes that get what superhero fight scenes are supposed to be about. I haven’t seen the Fantastic Four movies or Ghost Rider or Elektra or the Punisher movies or the Blade movies. I never saw any of the ersatz superhero things that a lot of guys slightly younger than me watched back in the day, your Meteor Mans and Blankmans and so on. I remember enjoying Darkman a TON as a kid, it was sort of the grimngritty superhero comic come to lurid life, but I haven’t seen it in ages. Batman Begins is one of the worst films I’ve ever seen. I like Iron Man and Incredible Hulk and (despite its inert Batman) The Dark Knight and have seen them all more than once. I haven’t seen Iron Man 2 yet. I enjoyed Watchmen as a sort of The Warriors for superhero movies; I saw it twice in the theater (one time for free) but don’t have the DVD yet because the studio seemed intent on ripping me off. I have no desire to see Kick-Ass. Superman Returns is dull as dishwater, Ang Lee’s Hulk seems to have no idea why it’s a movie about the Hulk. The Incredibles struck me as not very funny and not very exciting and not very interesting–talk about a beneficiary from the low bar set by other superhero movies. Unbreakable‘s a great time, my second favorite superhero movie after Batman. I love Zod, Ursa, and Non from Superman II, but beyond that those Superman movies sure are lame from what I can recall. I haven’t seen Steel.

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