Each decade's favourite superhero films
by eta95 | created - 10 Mar 2016 | updated - 11 months ago | PublicMy favourite films of the genre of each deacade with a ranking of up to 10 other films I've watched.
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1. Batman: The Movie (1966)
PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The Dynamic Duo faces four supervillains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether, Cesar Romero
Votes: 35,799
2. Superman (1978)
PG | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando
Votes: 187,557 | Gross: $134.22M
3. Batman (1989)
PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Adventure
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl
Votes: 404,315 | Gross: $251.19M
Superman II (80)
4. Batman Returns (1992)
PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy
While Batman deals with a deformed man calling himself the Penguin wreaking havoc across Gotham with the help of a cruel businessman, a female employee of the latter becomes the Catwoman with her own vendetta.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken
Votes: 327,537 | Gross: $162.83M
Blade (98) Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (93) Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (98) The Superman Batman Movie: The World's Finest (97) Batman Forever (95) Batman & Robin (97)
5. The Dark Knight (2008)
PG-13 | 152 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine
Votes: 2,871,254 | Gross: $534.86M
V for Vendetta (05) Watchmen (09) X2 (03) Batman Begins (05) Hellboy (04) Unbreakable (00) The Incredibles (04) Spider-Man (02) Spider-Man 2 (04) Iron Man (08)
6. Kick-Ass (2010)
R | 117 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a superhero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
Director: Matthew Vaughn | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Chloë Grace Moretz, Garrett M. Brown
Votes: 593,426 | Gross: $48.07M
The Avengers (12) X-Men: First Class (11) Guardians of the Galaxy (14) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (10) Avengers: Infinity War (18) Spider-Man: Far From Home (19) Logan (17) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (18) The Dark Knight Rises (12) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns: Part 2 (13)
7. The Suicide Squad (2021)
R | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker, and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.
Director: James Gunn | Stars: Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman
Votes: 409,731 | Gross: $55.82M
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (23) Spider-Man: No Way Home (21) The Batman (22) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (22) Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (22) Zack Snyder's Justice League (21) Thor: Love and Thunder (22) Werewolf by Night (22) Birds of Prey (20)
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