re: The Dark Knight - Best Superhero movie ever?

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For me the original Superman movie with Reeve is the top. I don't know if I'll ever watch one that tops it for me.

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Winner.

As a "superhero film" there really is no equal. Following Supes would probably be First Class, Avengers, The Incredibles, and a few others.

And I"m not even that much of a Superman fan, but that film is just superhero perfection.

The Avengers is first
Superman 11 The Donner version..not the Lester version is second. See the Donner version before voting.
The Dark Knight Returns and Batman Begins are probably just as good, but third IMO

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X-Men First Class is the best

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most overrated superhero movie on this board.

IF they hadn't had the "team" of X-Men and just had Magneto, Prof X and Mystique I'd put it up there, but the scenes not carried by the three stars were close to Last Stand level bad.

Any movie where the heroes literally sit around a table and come up with code names and display their powers(not actually using them) for the audience is really talking down to them.

The first X-Men was a better movie than this.

If Kick-arse counts, this deserves consideration. Incredibles too

IMO, the best superhero movie was The Avengers.

Movies in my book ahead of The Dark Knight (in no particular order):

1) The Crow
2) The Watchmen
3) Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
4) Blade 2
5) X-Men 2
6) The Incredibles
7) The Dark Knight Returns (Not Rises)
8) Spider Man 2
9) X-Men First Class
10) Batman Begins

I love almost everything about the first two Superman movies...except the special effects. They do not hold up at all. Christopher Reeve was fantastic in them.

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As a "superhero film" there really is no equal. Following Supes would probably be First Class, Avengers, The Incredibles, and a few others.

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Honestly, if you want to get technical with the genre, I don't think I would classify the Incredibles as really a Superhero specific film either, like I would with TDK. Really, the Incredibles is more like a spy movie than the average superhero affair. Replace the Incredibles with a retired James Bond who marries a bad arse spy, has kids, and tries to start life in an incredibly boring job, and the film doesn't change much at all. I think the villain would have and not been so much a fanboy, but that and the super powers themselves are just about the only thing that would change in that movie if it were instead based around a family of spies. And that was actually the initial concept for the Incredibles, they just changed it to superheroes instead.

I'd say First Class plays with that line as well, but not quite as much as TDK or the Incredibles.

Man of Steel is gonna give it a run for its money imo.

I'd put The Incredibles above TDK. Far better pacing and a better script. The bad guy gets offed in the end, too.

I'd give TDK 4/4 stars, but it dragged in spots.

The Two-Face story felt bolted on and poorly done. 2+ hours of movie and then they rushed through totally upstanding crime fighting DA - (girlfriend dies+ridiculous face burn makeup) = ready to kill a child.

And the cell-phone radar thing Batman throws together went a little beyond normal suspension of disbelief.