re: The 10 Most Disappointing Superhero Films all of time(article)

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And you say that when you put X2 as the second most disappointing superhero film of all time

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I think most people here are mistaking the term "worse" for "disappointing

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I feel like you don't understand that a "disappointing" list will be more subjective than a "worse" list. usually dissapointments are what skew someone's bias towards thinking a film is shitty in the first place.

So, if xmen was someone's favorite comic growing up....its going to make their top ten "disappointing" list.

And Superman Returns was hyped by the media non stop back then. You couldn't read an entertainment magazine or watch any news show without Superman Returns talk. So much of it about Brandon as the new Superman. It even finished with a 76% on rotten timatoes. Yes, for me, highly disappointing compared to man of steel.

Sounds like you succumbed to the TD hype

It's implied that Zod and the others were left to die if you go by the theatrical version of Superman II.

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How many Disney films contain mass genocide in them?

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Not many, but they did allow massive destruction porn in the Avengers. The city of New York is placed under siege, and many innocent people die. So it's clear that Disney would allow Joss Whedon to allow an attack by a villain on a major city because, well, it happened in the last movie he did for them with the same characters.

The reason the Avengers does not get the same scorn for destruction porn is that the heroes seemed genuinely concerned for people's safety. They went out of their way to save civilians and minimize casualties. They could have taken the same tact with Ultron (and I don't care that they used a fictional country, that is par for the course in Marvel which has a long history of making places up: Mandripoor, Latveria, Wakunda, Genosha, etc.)

I think its far more likely Whedon made the changes, sensitive to the Man of Steel blowback. I also don't thin kits unreasonable for Marvel to exercise some editorial control. Their brand essentially gives a director an automatic hit and they give them access to a huge budget and pretty much any cast they want. In exchange for that, you occasionally have to put Falcon in one scene of your Ant-Man film.

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Not many, but they did allow massive destruction porn in the Avengers. The city of New York is placed under siege, and many innocent people die. So it's clear that Disney would allow Joss Whedon to allow an attack by a villain on a major city because, well, it happened in the last movie he did for them with the same characters.

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Yeah, but I can't remember a citizen dying on screen. Some of SHIELD does, but they volunteered for this. Ultron clearly wants to massacre the innocents, while all Loki really cares about is ruling. If Earth just surrendered without any fight, I doubt Loki himself would be needlessly cruel to humanity and let them mostly go on their merry way so long as they treated him as a God (although Thanos would probably prevent this). Ultron does care about power and can't be reasoned with. He's a pure monster without any mercy. He didn't really come off as such in the film.

Could you imagine a dark Wolverine series, a la Daredevil? Esp on HBO or Netflix? It would be amazing. I never thought of him as a terminator with skin but it really fits, and claws like his would lop of heads and arms effortlessly.

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Could you imagine a dark Wolverine series, a la Daredevil? Esp on HBO or Netflix? It would be amazing. I never thought of him as a terminator with skin but it really fits, and claws like his would lop of heads and arms effortlessly.

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That would be awesome. It's time for them to do Wolverine justice.

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And for me, it's hard to root for a superhero spending his time stalking an engaged chick from the shadows. The Cavill Superman would have made Routh his bitch.

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It's befuddling why people didn't enjoy Cavills superman. I thought it was overdue to have a Superman movie with action, intensity, and carnage. Cavill did a great job portraying a young Superman who was just learning his own strength. I expect he'll mature and become more cognizant of the damage he can do, but it sure is nice to see a superman who doesn't pussy around the whole time.

I concur,,,IMHO a much better/deeper..well written movie...even if it did ignore some of its own rules....which I agree with the above poster that it did..