re: DC versus Marvel

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To actually bring this back to the discussion and not Unknown's bizarre penis envy of everyone else...

I don't believe the older superhero movies count in this discussion considering they are all in reboots. I'm more talking about DC and Marvel right now, not 25 years ago. I think DC's "superhero" canon is worse than Marvel's, Batman excepted, but DC published far more interesting non-canonical stuff like Sandman and Watchmen, which is outside the official DC universe. The Watchmen is one of the best comic books ever written (I think it's only real competition is Cerebus and Sandman).

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My point is--like you touched on--in the last 25 years, the Batman series (including Burton's--notd Schumacher's) have distinguished the superb writing and directing of a comic book character onto the screen.

Seriously? Can you imagine how great Daredevil could have been if the script were better or if the cast was better?

Wolverine has all the potential in the world to be great. I haven't seen Iron Man so I can't say. But to say that Spiderman or X-Men were great movies...entertaining OK...but not great.

Batman Begins and TDK are far superior. Superman Returns was much better than Hulk, Elektra, Daredevil, and Fantastic Four.