Favorite Superhero Movie of Summer 2012? (don't vote till you've seen em all please)

[Josh-A-Tron]

Agreed. It was a very good movie but no masterpiece. People need to watch these movies if they want to see masterpieces.
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys/greatest-films-all-time-2012

I've seen most of those and I take issue with half of them. Then again i never said TDKR is a "Masterpiece" either.

And I still can't believe that Vertigo went to Number 1 this year. I don't even think it's Hitchcock's best let alone the #1 film all time.

Just goes to show you, different times lead to changes.

 

[CelticPredator]

Vertigo is an awesome movie. Great suspense and camera work.

Didn't care for the very, very. very ending. Happened way too fast.

 

[Josh-A-Tron]

Vertigo is an awesome movie. Great suspense and camera work.

Didn't care for the very, very. very ending. Happened way too fast.

I still prefer Both Rear Window and North by Northwest to Vertigo.

 

[thenammagazine]

Agreed. It was a very good movie but no masterpiece. People need to watch these movies if they want to see masterpieces.
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys/greatest-films-all-time-2012

But you thought Amazing Spider-Man was a masterpiece and that wasn't half as good as TDKR.

 

[devilof76]

2001 sucks ass.

 

[Bullseye]

But you thought Amazing Spider-Man was a masterpiece and that wasn't half as good as TDKR.

I loved ASM but I never said it was a masterpiece of film making. I can distinguish between fun popcorn movies and serious movies.

 

[OSCORP]

TDKR is overrated as hell. Not to say that it wasn't good just overrated as hell. I liked Avengers more, and i think that might be a tad overrated. Hype is hype, and it gets blown up real fast these days.

None of these movies were masterpieces

 

[devilof76]

TDKR was a masterpiece compared to 2001.

 

[Alex Logan]

Anyone who truly thinks TDKR is a "masterpiece" probably just needs to watch a lot more movies. And different types.

That's a bold statement my friend.

 

[intothevoid]

IMO TDKR is a modern masterpiece. Far from a simple 'popcorn' flick.

And i've seen plenty of films

 

[The Josh]

That's a bold statement my friend.

No more bold than calling tdkr a masterpiece IMO.

 

[intothevoid]

Citizen Kane is boring as heck so there you go

 

[Alex Logan]

No more bold than calling tdkr a masterpiece IMO.

Actually it is because calling something a masterpiece is all about perception and that is defined by opinion.

Telling someone they need to see more movies implies that they don't have taste and their opinion is wrong. At least that's how I see it anyway.

 

[Alex Logan]

With their wallets.





Alex can keep trolling opinions and fanboy polls but at the end of the day, the world voted with their money. And that speaks louder than any fanboy's opinion ever could.

It's not trolling when you come to same threads over and over. You of all people should know that. And I guess 3D had nothing to do with that? It's funny how you use that part of the argument to back yourself up but conveniently leave it out the rest of the time.

 

[The Josh]

I agree calling something a masterpiece is opinion. One persons opinion can be wrong to someone but that doesn't make it fact or vice versa.

 

[thenammagazine]

IMO TDKR is a modern masterpiece. Far from a simple 'popcorn' flick.

And i've seen plenty of films

Other Nolan movies don't count.

It's not trolling when you come to same threads over and over. You of all people should know that. And I guess 3D had nothing to do with that? It's funny how you use that part of the argument to back yourself up but conveniently leave it out the rest of the time.

No, what you seem to be ignoring is the fact that TDKR was doomed to compete with Avengers from the get-go. Void didn't even think it could after Avengers exploded. Remove the 3D/IMAX mark-ups from Avengers and the IMAX mark-up from TDKR and TDKR still gets spanked. Yes, spanked. Avengers would've kicked it's ass (and likely did) in family ticket sales alone. TDKR does not lend itself to a family audience and honestly, that's where the $$$ is. TDK as a date movie is 2 tickets while Avengers as a family movie is 4+ per viewing. It's basic math and common sense. Now does that diminish anything from TDKR? If you let it, that's pretty sad. But overall, regardless of what fanboy poll you pull out of your ass, people voted with their wallets and TDKR didn't win.

 

[IrishJedi]

IMO TDKR is a modern masterpiece. Far from a simple 'popcorn' flick.

I wouldn't call it a simple popcorn flick, either (though there is nothing wrong with those). But it's too obviously flawed to be considered a masterpiece.

I just don't know why people have such a hard time being more level-headed with this stuff. What's wrong with it being a very good movie that's got some issues? Too often we're stuck in debate between "it's an epic masterpiece" and "it sucked". Where is the rationalism in the middle? People seem too busy posturing between building a movie up, or tearing it down in order to support their own fundamental like/dislike of it.

I wouldn't call The Avengers a masterpiece, either. Neither of these films earned that label.

 

[thenammagazine]

I wouldn't call it a simple popcorn flick, either (though there is nothing wrong with those). But it's too obviously flawed to be considered a masterpiece.

I just don't know why people have such a hard time being more level-headed with this stuff. What's wrong with it being a very good movie that's got some issues? Too often were stuck in debate between "it's an epic masterpiece" and "it sucked". Where is the rationalism in the middle?

I wouldn't call The Avengers a masterpiece, either. Neither of these films earned that label.

It's been irrational since the beginning. Look how many people actually believe Ledger deserved the Oscar over Brolin.

 

[CelticPredator]

And also, people hate old films for some reason now. It's annoying.

It needs to stop.

 

[intothevoid]

Dr Zhivago is the best 'old film' I've ever seen

That's a proper epic if I ever saw one