Best superhero movie of all time? (Nominations thread)

[Reynard]

If you make a television series set in the Marvel universe but it has no superheroes (or even regular heroes, to make this really clear) is it still a superhero show?

Like a sitcom where folks just name drop supers while having dinner or something? Marvel universe is in background but has no impact on the characters? No, I wouldnt consider that a super hero show.

What if it is a show about a superhero but we never see any of their superheroing. Like, say, a Batman and Robin sitcom where we only see them in Wayne Manor or the Batcave.

 

[Kaodi]

What if it is a show about a superhero but we never see any of their superheroing. Like, say, a Batman and Robin sitcom where we only see them in Wayne Manor or the Batcave.

Yeah, and in that vein, which is a show I was thinking about too: is Gotham a superhero show?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

If you make a television series set in the Marvel universe but it has no superheroes (or even regular heroes, to make this really clear) is it still a superhero show?

I would argue that Astro City issues that only focus on ordinary people -- which is about a third to half of the issues I've read -- are still absolutely superhero comics, since the characters are moving about in the context of a superheroic world and its conventions impact their lives.

See the Eisner-winning single issue story "The Nearness of You," which is about one ordinary man's grief and loss. I won't spoil what happened to him, but it's completely tied up in big superhero comic stuff.

 

[Reynard]

See the Eisner-winning single issue story "The Nearness of You," which is about one ordinary man's grief and loss. I won't spoil what happened to him, but it's completely tied up in big superhero comic stuff.

Literally one of the best things ever written in any genre or medium.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Literally one of the best things ever written in any genre or medium.

I don't think any other comic book has ever made me sob, before or since.

 

[Ryujin]

So would James Gunn's 2000 movie "The Specials" be a superhero movie? Am I the only one here who saw it?

 

[Reynard]

So would James Gunn's 2000 movie "The Specials" be a superhero movie? Am I the only one here who saw it?

Holy crap, that is a Gunn movie?

 

[payn]

What if it is a show about a superhero but we never see any of their superheroing. Like, say, a Batman and Robin sitcom where we only see them in Wayne Manor or the Batcave.

Thats been done, it was called The Specials.

 

[Reynard]

Thats been done, it was called The Specials.

There is also a show my daughter watches on Disney Channel that I can't remember the name of that is basically this.

 

[Kichwas]

Mystery Men.
Even though I like more powerful supers in the genre itself, that movie was one of the few that had heart and characters that didn't feel like they were made in a corporate boardroom, nor a plot that felt 'big studio sanitized').

Since the genre became big, everything that's come out has had that 'blockbuster' feel of being full of flash and low on substance.