Top 15 Famous Superhero Movies in the World
Are you a movie addict or movie fanatic? Did you ever wish to become a superhero someday like you have watched superhero movies? Being superhero is difficult duties you must your identities, your love ones and family. Saving others life is quiet difficult you are putting your own life in to death when you are saving an individual that is in danger. Now would you like to be a Superhero? If yes what kind of superhero you want to be? For this post we are showcasing the top 15 most famous superhero movies in the world. Find out which one would you like to be..
Now for this top fifteen article, we are showcasing some of the most famous Superhero Movies in the world. Have some time to read and checkout the 15 listed famous superhero movies below. Enjoy!
Top 15: Hulk
Released: 2003
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas, Nick Nolte
Best moment: Hulk vs tanks
Why it's an all-time great: Yes, there are parts of this film where it totally hops the rails, but there are also moments that get it so right it's breathtaking. Ang Lee made a beautiful movie, and even if his Hulk isn't as photorealistic as the one in "The Avengers," ILM did some gorgeous work. Watching the big green guy bounce around the desert kicking the crap out of an under-prepared Army unit, you get the sense that Lee fell in love with the character if not the story.
- Drew McWeeny
Top 14: Captain America: The First Avenger
Released: 2011
Director: Joe Johnston
Cast: Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Dominic Cooper, Stanley Tucci, Samuel L. Jackson, Toby Jones
Best moment: For a film so loaded with great action and world-building atmosphere, the best moment has to be the closing scene, which finds Steve Rogers waking up to a brand new world, 70 years later, catapulting Marvel's on-screen universe into "The Avengers" and phase two of its grand design.
Why it's an all-time great: Johnston was the perfect fit for the aesthetic of something like this, given his work on films like "The Rocketeer." That throw-back feel is unique in the genre of superhero films and gives this one a special place in that lineage.
- Kristopher Tapley
Top 13: The Rocketeer
Released: 1991
Director: Joe Johnston
Cast: Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton
Best moment: The Rocketeer's climactic, ultimately explosive attack on a Nazi Zeppelin is one of the great high-concept setpieces in all of superhero cinema, and transforms the Hollywood sign to boot.
Why it's an all-time great: It may be based on a comic book, but cinema is the medium to which this warmly retro adventure is most devoted; locating the action in Golden Age Hollywood, with sumptuous Art Deco design to match, gives the film a romanticism rare for the genre.
- Guy Lodge
Top 12: Batman Begins
Released: 2005
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe, Morgan Freeman
Best moment: Batman's first nighttime adventure with The Tumbler.
Why it's an all-time great: It came at a moment when the genre was already starting to tip towards the silly, and it set an interesting challenge for other filmmakers looking to work in this admittedly populist form but who wanted to treat things seriously. Not every film should be told with this sort of somber tone, but what any filmmaker can take from this is that you have to make big choices and commit if it's going to work at all.
- Drew McWeeny
Top 11: Superman II
Released: 1980
Director: Richard Lester or Richard Donner, depending on the moment
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Terrence Stamp,
Jack O'Halloran and Sarah Douglas.
Best moment: Superman and General Zod brawl in the streets of Metropolis, but somehow avoid killing half of the city's civilians.
Why it's an all-time great: The "Superhero gives up powers, tries to live as a normal person, realizes that the world needs him" plotline has been done many times on the big and small screen, but this is probably the best treatment of that narrative. Clark getting his butt kicked by boorish trucker Rocky still hurts to this day. Still, though, what holds "Superman II" together is the combination of Reeve's perfectly captured boy scout Clark/Superman and the oozing glam-rock menace of Terence Stamp's Zod. If David Bowie had decided to literally conquer Earth in the early '70s, he would have been a lot like Zod and Stamp's performance is one of the best villainous turns in the annals of superhero movies.
- Daniel Fienberg
Top 10: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Released: 2014
Director: Joe and Anthony Russo
Cast: Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Anthony Mackie, Robert Redford,
Samuel L. Jackson, Sebastian Stan
Best moment: Cap, stuck in an elevator full of men who want to hurt him, calmly calmly asks, "Before we get started, does anyone want to get out?" No one takes him up on the offer, because they prefer pain to common sense.
Why it's an all-time great: It mashes up the best elements of paranoid political thrillers of the '70s (complete with Redford in a big role) and modern-day superhero epics, two genres that shouldn't go together nearly as well as they do here, with the sincere and decent '40s relic Cap serving as a great contrast to all the morally ambiguous characters around him. The Russo brothers make marvelous use of physical space for the action sequences, and Cap's partnerships with both Black Widow and (especially) the Falcon turn it into an "Avengers" film in mini without ever feeling overstuffed the way so many superhero sequel films do.
- Alan Sepinwall
Top 9: Iron Man
Released: 2008
Director: Jon Favreau
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltow, Terrence Howard
Best moment: Tony building the Mark II and taking it out for her first test running. "Sometimes you have to run before you can walk."
Why it's an all-time great: The movie that started a billion dollar franchise. 'Iron Man' proved that audiences will flock to a superhero story even if the character isn't a household name, as long as it's sharp entertainment. Using Downey was a risk — at the time he was considered uninsurable — but his charisma and complete embodiment of Tony Stark blew it out of the park and set the new standard to which all superhero genre films are held.
- Donna Dickens
Top 8: X2: X-Men United
Released: 2003
Director: Bryan Singer
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James Marsden, Anna Paquin, Rebecca Romijn, Brian Cox, Alan Cumming, Aaron Stanford, Shawn Ashmore, Kelly Hu
Best moment: Wolverine goes on a bloody tear as Cox's baddie Stryker attempts to sack Xavier's School for the Gifted in the middle of the night.
Why it's an all-time great: Marvel may be making waves with superhero team-ups as of late but "X2" was the first movie that really made that work on a large scale, folding in tons of recognizable heroes and villains for a comic book extravaganza on the big screen.
- Kristopher Tapley
Top 7: X-Men: First Class
Released: 2011
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, Oliver Platt, Jason Flemyng, Zoe Kravitz, January Jones, Nicholas Hoult, Caleb Landry Jones, Lucas Till
Best moment: Magneto, two Nazis, and a knife
Why it's an all-time great: Matthew Vaughn had absolutely impeccable timing when he cast Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence as the young versions of Magneto and Mystique, and the decision to take the characters back to the swinging '60s gave Vaughn permission to have huge fun with rebooting the series. I could watch an entire movie of Magneto terrorizing Nazis, and Lawrence finally gave Mystique the bruised soul that has always been hinted at by the films.
- Drew McWeeny
Top 6: Spider-Man 2
Released: 2004
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris, J.K. Simmons, Donna Murphy, Dylan Baker, Bill Nunn, Willem Dafoe
Best moment: Doc Ock, Spidey, and an out-of-control subway train
Why it's an all-time great: Raimi has several warm-ups, but he pulled it all together with this one. His cast all clicks their second time out, and he does a great job of balancing the miseries of daily life with the calling to do something better than has always defined Peter Parker in his dual life as Spider-Man. Doctor Octopus is a great villain, beautifully realized here, and Molina gives this bad guy a soul even as the FX crew give him some amazing arms.
- Drew McWeeny
Top 5: Superman: The Movie
Released: 1978
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Valerie Perrine, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford
Best moment: Superman makes his public debut by saving Lois Lane as she is tumbling out of a falling helicopter, telling her, "Easy, miss. I've got you." "You've got me?" she replies, hysterical. "WHO'S GOT YOU?"
Why it's an all-time great: Christopher Reeve's performance remains the gold standard for all superhero movie leads, able to find what's compelling about the corny do-gooder from Krypton and making you believe no one would look at Clark Kent and recognize his other identity. Donner structures the film in three distinct movements — sci-fi epic for the destruction of Krypton, Norman Rockwell Americana for Clark's childhood in Kansas, and screwball comedy for his adventures in Metropolis and sparring with Gene Hackman's smug Luthor — and all of them flow beautifully together. Excise Kidder's spoken word performance during Superman and Lois' flight together ("Can you read my mind?") and you have the perfect superhero origin film.
- Alan Sepinwall
Top 4: Batman
Released: 1989
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Michael Keaton, Jacko Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Michael Gough, Billy Dee Williams, Pat Hingle, Jack Palance
Best moment: With a cache full of the Joker's gas-expelling balloons, the Dark Knight takes to the skies in the Batwing. After releasing them away from the city, he ascends past the cloud cover to make a pretty sweet Batman logo with the Batwing against a full moon.
Why it's an all-time great: "Batman" rubbed many fans wrong at the time for liberties taken with the mythos but it stands as a sort of "elseworlds" tale full of panache, the movie that finally brought the Batman of film and TV to a darker side.
- Kristopher Tapley
Top 3: The Avengers
Released: 2012
Director: Joss Whedon
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston
Best moment: The climatic battle in New York City. 'I'm bringing the party to you.' 'That's not a party.'
Why it's an all-time great: It's one thing for Marvel to crank out a film franchise for every major character in their stable. It's entirely another to weave those plots together into a single movie then release them back to their own franchises like a complex dance. Add in perennial fan favorite Joss Whedon's memorable one-liners and subtly making the human female — Black Widow — the lynch pin that saves the day while the boys bicker and destroy everything in a eyegasm or CGI explosion and suddenly there's something for everyone.
- Donna Dickens
Top 2: The Incredibles
Released: 2004
Director: Brad Bird
Cast: (voices) Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee
Best moment: The superpowers of Pixar introduced a rambunctious new era of crimefighting into the seemingly normal Parr Family: Elastigirl, Frozone, Mr. Incredible and the kids all had their turn at showing off. But one of the most notable feats was making a mundane question far more fantastical: What to wear, when you're a superhero? Director Bird stepped up to voice the sassy Edna, The Incredibles' fashion designer, to helpfully explain some superhero fashion Dos And Don'ts, which poked a little fun at costume tropes and allowed for a baby mannequin to be set on fire.
Why it's an all-time great: Animation makes the act of "believing" the superpower abilities and effects easier, which left more room for this this loveable group to be grounded in a tale that's recognizably familial and moral. It's a superhero take that anyone of any age can understand. - Katie Hasty
Top 1: The Dark Knight
Released: 2008
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Chin Han, Nestor Carbonell, Eric Roberts
Best moment: The introduction to Heath Ledger's Joker is maybe the best overall scene that Nolan's ever directed. By the time he's been revealed, we not only know just how methodical he is, but also just how dangerous, and the stakes are established for Batman's greatest on-screen challenge.
Why it's an all-time great: It's not just a perfect version of what Nolan was trying to do with Batman, it's also probably the best example of any filmmaker creating a world that feels real but that also feels like a place where superheroes could actually occur. It's an incredibly tricky tone to get right, and even Nolan couldn't quite reproduce it after he did it so right here. It's so confident and so compelling that it doesn't even matter that the story doesn't make much sense.
- Drew McWeeny
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Please be noted that the top 15 that we are including here in our blog are all unofficial rankings unless otherwise noted. Most of the top fifteen lists are based on Google search results and collected mainly from different blogs and websites around the internet world.
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