Comments on: SR Pick: The Superhero Movie Chart

By: Webseries: Infamous - Pink Raygun.com

Webseries: Infamous - Pink Raygun.com — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:49:38 +0000

[...] SR Pick: The Superhero Movie Chart (screenrant.com) [...]

By: BlueCollarCritic

BlueCollarCritic — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:06:41 +0000

“Iron Man is very re-watchable; TDK not so” ~ Vic

Amen to that. I own both on BluRay and have watched each multiple times at the theatre (Imax in the case of TDK) but IM wins out in the “re-watchable” category because it beats out TDK in a few areas that make re-watching it far more desirable then TDK or anotehr example of a diffcult re-watchable movie that waas great, Titanic.

1) Duration – Its tough to get repeat viewers on something that goes more then 2 hours; +/- 10 minutes. Even though TDK was a great film it was long, possibly too long and that makes it hard to sit down and watch it without breaking it into multiple sessions or dedicating 3 hours to the task. You ened 3 hours because who watches a movie at home without hitting PAUSE a few times for the bathroom or a kitchen run?

2) Mix of humor, action and pace – TDK was far from humorous and thats because its not supposed to be; The Dark Knight is a dark character. While it has its action sceenes, TDK at times slows down too much and can encourage a press of the FF button. Iron Man keeps a steady pace and makes you laugh at least once every 10 minutes or so (on average).

By: big rob

big rob — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:50:46 +0000

I don’t care want anybody says Howard the Duck is the best comic book movie of all time

By: Aknot

Aknot — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:17:14 +0000

Rgr that should have posted a follow up. They were working later in the day.

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:12:42 +0000

@Aknot

Links work for me.

@SamBeckett

Point taken (I also give you: Transformers 2).

Vic

By: DrSamBeckett

DrSamBeckett — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:09:10 +0000

Vic

“While I don’t usually associate quality of a movie with box office, if a superhero movie stinks usually the box office reflects that.”

I present to you, Spiderman 3, massive box office, shockingly bad movie.

By: Aknot

Aknot — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:53:29 +0000

I get an error when trying to view the link and or parent site. Anyone else?

By: Cool: Evolution of Superhero Films Movie Chart | Fused Film

Cool: Evolution of Superhero Films Movie Chart | Fused Film — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:52:58 +0000

[...] when my pal Vic over at ScreenRant passed along this really cool superhero movie evolution chart they had posted that day. I hadn’t had time to post this until now and thought it was a really neat look at how [...]

By: Darren seeley

Darren seeley — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:40:24 +0000

The 89 Punisher went DTV in the US. In that respect, it didn’t really “bomb” at the US Box office.

And as for the rest of the chart, The 94 Punisher had a lower budget than Elektra and it had a domestic of 35 to Elektra’s 24; the two are flip-flopped. Also, The Spirit bombed worse than either–

The “charts” also leave out Spawn, The Mask, The Crow, three Superman sequels, Supergirl, and Steel.

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:02:08 +0000

@Giraffehead

Yeah, I feel the same way. Iron Man is very re-watchable, TDK, not so much.

@M-Cat

While I don’t usually associate quality of a movie with box office, if a superhero movie stinks usually the box office reflects that.

Vic

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:07:00 +0000

Cool graphic, but you never, ever, put red text on a blue background or vice versa.

By: Giraffehead

Giraffehead — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:49:40 +0000

I enjoyed The Dark Knight the first time I watched it, it was pure joy to watch Ledger as the joker and was engrossed throughout the very long movie. The first time I watched Iron Man I thought it was a very enjoyable film and had a good laugh, but nothing ground breaking.

I bought both movies and watch Iron Man often. I tried to watch The Dark Knight again, I lost interest and started doing other things without realizing it.

Verdict: first watch the nod goes to The Dark Knight, after that give me Iron Man any day… way more entertaining.

By: M-Cat

M-Cat — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:10:15 +0000

Cool chart but the thing shouldn’t be based on money. Money means nothing except to studios, not the fans.

By: ricardo

ricardo — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:12:23 +0000

Iron Man better than the Dark KNIGHT, lol, no way
Spiderman won’t beat Batman

By: angela

angela — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:12:37 +0000

What, no Batman 1966?

By: johnny_boy

johnny_boy — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:32:06 +0000

im sure spiderman 4 will make enough to beat batman

By: Andy S

Andy S — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:50:22 +0000

That’s a pretty cool chart, but I wish they would break it down by movie in each year. In 2008 Punisher Warzone is included to make it looks like it really helped in the haul at the box office. I mean, most of the people here KNOW that TDK and IM were the prime drivers of the BO that year, with TIH helping. I’d almost bet that Punisher Warzone hurt the box office/production cost ratio.

Cool to see that Superman made almost a billion in today’s dollars. Shows how strong a movie that it really is. It is STILL one of my all-time favorite movies-superhero or not.