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Time's Top 10 Superhero Films

Acemace

By Acemace,
Posted on: 2011-06-16 10:02 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture

 

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Not sure why that was quoted to me. This was my list:

10. Kick-***
9. Hellboy
8. Blade
7. Batman Begins
6. Superman
5. Iron Man
4. X-Men 2
3. Spider-Man 2
2. The Dark Knight
1. The Incredibles

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Originally Posted by galadiman View Post
Not that I'm trying to be argumentative or anything... (<.<.) but I believe your use of the word 'cartoons', a word sometimes used as derogatory of animated films, betrays a certain ... viewpoint.

It's taken over 50 years of hard work for people to consider animated films like the "Toy Story" franchise with the same seriousness as Hi-tech effects films (which have themselves been demeaned for a long time) and they have often been relegated to 'also-ran' status in such considerations as the Oscars.
Putting aside the story, the technical challenges that are present in a scene like this were it attempted in a live-action film are immensely more challenging, there's little room for debate, which is why critical acclaim has not always been commensurate between the two forms of media all things being equal.


I love animated movies, amateur animation and modeling is actually a tiny hobby of mine, but the premise that The Incredibles and The Dark Knight should be a couple choices apart from one another on a list of All Time Best SHero films -- to me is silly.

Even so, animated films have received a great deal of recognition through the years, Disney alone has amassed something like 70 Oscar nominations including best picture for B&tB (20yrs ago) with multiple wins for various categories dating all the way back to the 1930's Snow White, which premiered to a thunderous ovation by film luminaries of the day like Clark Cable & Marlene Dietrich. Walt Disney I think still holds the record for most academy awards, and nearly all of them for animation.

None of which even scratches the surface of the popular culture recognition of various forms of cartoons via the box office, magazine covers, radio, tv, merchandise... etc.

Whether the Academy Awards have been fair to this genre historically is another topic, ask comedies..

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But to put them in a different category really misses the point. The Incredibles raised the bar for superhero movies in a way that even the Batman reboot films, as much as I like them, didn't.
Structurally, there probably is little difference between a screenplay for an animated movie and a live-action film, but there are reasons why some stories are better animated and some are better, and much more challenging, in live-action.

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