Poll Suggestion: IMDb Poll Board: Top 5 Superhero Movies

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Here are IMDb poll board members' top five favorite superhero movies of all time. Which one of these top 5 lists do you prefer the most?
 
 
❒ IMDb List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls085443409/
❒ IMDb Poll: 
 
 
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✨ Anyone can post their top 5 picks! ...not just the poll makers.
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Does Glass (2019) count?
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Yes.

The list is not restricted to DC or Marvel.
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Glass (2019)
The LEGO Ninjago Movie (2017)
Joker (2019)
Kick Ass (2010)
Suicide Squad (2016)
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Oh cool, so I'm assuming that means 'Split' and "Unbreakable' count? I was going to say that I don't think that I've seen five superhero movies, lol, but if those count, I guess I have. Oh wait, I've actually seen more than I thought: the Christopher Reeve Superman, Tim Burton's Batman, and one of Nolan's Batman movies, as well as two of the three Toby Maguire SpiderMans. Oh, and the Spider-verse film. Wow, I've seen more than five and have five I'd recommend. I'll come up with my list soon. Oh, and does 'V for Vendetta' count?

I also saw 'Joker' but I don't consider that a superhero movie and I'd only recommend the first one-third or one-half it it or all of Joaquin Phoenix's performance if there was a way to cut out everything around him after a certain point, lol. 
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Rubyfruit76,

Yes. Any superhero movie is eligible.

Hellboy, Sky High, Chronicle, The Incredibles, Unbreakable, Split, Mystery Men, The Crow, The Rocketeer, Darkman, Spawn, TMNT, are all superhero movies.

Edit: Yes, 'V for Vendetta' is also a superhero movie. It is based on DC comics. It's in my top 5 (#3).
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Yay, I have seen superhero movies, lol. 
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1. The Dark Knight, obviously
2. Logan
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
4. Deadpool
5. The Incredibles
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Hi there,

Can I get a link to your IMDb user profile?

Please let me know below if you do not want me to use your IMDb user profile. I'll use your GS profile instead.
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GS profile is fine.
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1. Watchmen
2. The Dark Knight
3. Infinity War
4. Endgame
5. Dr. Strange
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Sorry about the duplicate word (typo) there.
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Logan is not Lucky a few months ago, it would have been in my Top 5.
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Thanks for sharing your picks.

I expected the Nolan trilogy to be in your top 5 (kinda predicted too).
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Nice to see the love for "Watchmen" on the poll board - this great movie was grossly underappreciated by audiences when it was released.

I think either Nolan or Scorsese later stated that this film was "ahead of its time", (Despite being based on material from 1985? I guess he meant people were too dumb to appreciate it.) 


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To the point that Watchmen appears as my #2 pick when I actually wrote Logan there.
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Hahahaha!
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IMDbmember,

Sorry, I've corrected it now.

Please don't forget the message I posted above.
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My list:

1.- The Dark Knight
2.- Avengers: Infinity War
3.- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
4.- Captain America: The First Avenger
5.- Captain America: Civil War
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1. The Dark Knight (2008)
2. Batman Begins (2005)
3. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
4. Darkman (1990)
5. Batman (1989)
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1. The Dark Knight (2008)
2. Avengers Assemble (2012)
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
4. Big Hero 6 (2014)
5. Captain America: Civil War (2016)
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Hi Brijesh,

"Avengers Assemble (2012)" is not a feature film. It's a TV series.

Please replace it with another superhero movie. Thank you.
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I meant The Avengers (2012). Strangely it shows me that name.
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Brij,

It's your location.

You can go to your IMDb account settings and change your preferred language for titles to "Original" - or as a poll creator "English US" might also be best for you.
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I didn't even know there was a TV series by that name until I googled it.
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Oswald, I changed the account settings. Thank you for suggesting.
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You're Welcome :)
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Wow, I'm so happy I could participate in this. I've never thought of myself as a superhero movie person but I am more than I thought. 

1. V for Vendetta
2. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
3. Split (2016)
4. Unbreakable (2000)
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

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See! It was that easy.

Thanks for sharing your picks.

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Good choices.

I see you listed both Unbreakable(2000) and Split(2016)

Have you seen Glass(2019)?

It is a sequel to both films, featuring characters from both, and way better than either.
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My very subjective Top-5 from a current perspective:
1) Glass (2019)
2) Unbreakable (2000)
3) Donnie Darko (2001)
4) Split (2016)
5) Drive (2011) 

Honorable mentions: (5 is not enough for me in this particular genre, to be honest)
Scanners (1981) 
The Gladiator (1986) 
Highlander (1986) 
RoboCop (1987) 
Batman (1989) 
The Punisher (1989) 
Darkman (1990) 
Prizrak (1991) 
Lunatics: A Love Story (1991) 
Batman Returns (1992) 
The Shadow (1994) 
The Crow (1994) 
Batman Begins (2005) 
Hobo With a Shotgun (2011)
Joker (2019)

Movies, I haven't seen in entirety yet, but have a strong suspicion I'll love:
Akira (1988)
Nightbreed (1990)
Mystery Men (1999) (Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot comics are some of the best ever; movie only uses certain small portions, not even the main character, but since it's written by Burden himself, i'm trusting that core ideas are there)
Koroshiya 1 (2001) (aka Ichi the Killer; I love the original manga and Takashi Miike is one of my favorite directors)
Artik (2019)   

Musings:
-It feels a bit of a cheat to include whole Eastrail trilogy in the Top, but heck, it's the best superhero trilogy we have that was not based on pre-existing material and yet had that much respect and ground in the genre. All three movies tell the story of a superhero events in unexpected, uncharacteristic ways, closer to real life and therefore hitting all the more harder. 
-Joker (2019) is great and I love that a movie with these sensibilities and approach got greenlit and got impressively succesful, despite at the core still having questions and approaches from genre. But. It's a tad, a modicum less of a personal touch for me that Glass (2019) is. I've seen both of them twice in theaters, something I seldom did before 2019 and, when cinemas hopefully reopen normally, something I'd love to do with movies I loved enough the first time around. 
-I'm including Drive (2011) there because yes, it is confirmed by director Nicholas Winding Refn that this one is his take on that genre and formula. A great one, in my opinion, and having some of the best subtle touches here and there. I'm also including Donnie Darko (2001) which has another (less) subtle hint at the genre, suggesting that a) at the core of it is that amazing notion that if you pick random human being, that seems flawed in more ways than one and present this being with an option to change the world for better at cost of one's own happiness and recognition, you might be surprised and not always in a negative way; and b) in real life we will mistrust the figures like that and will consider them mentally ill until it is too late. 
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Nikolay Yeriomin,

Five is not enough for me either, I guess, but seeing how "Superhero" is a subgenre and most of the people are not into it even if they seem to love one or two, I decided to limit it to 5. Also because setting 10 will make most of our lists similar.

Hope you understand.

✔️ I've added your picks. Thanks for sharing them with us.
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