Best Film adaptation of a Comic Book Hero

[Loony BoB]

Go on, fight this out, too. Money is probably on Batman because Batman, but y'never know.

[Ayen]

It depends on what fits your criteria for "best." If we're talking faithful adaptions, the winner would probably be Watchmen, with them only really botching it by not having the giant squid.

If we're just going by story, entertainment and all that, it's between The Dark Knight, Avengers, and Winter Soldier for me.

[Slothy]

Yeah, faithfulness would go to Dredd for me. Just plain enjoyable would have been the Dark Knight, but holy trout Marvel's been so good during their second phase. Might have to give it to Winter Soldier.

[Raistlin]

The Dark Knight will be tough to beat as the best comic book movie ever; "second best" would probably be more of a debate. I have ridiculously high hopes for the Avengers Infinity War series, though, so they will probably be either the best or most crushingly disappointing movies.

[Psychotic]

Watchmen's opening is an absolutely incredible piece of cinema and that alone takes it for me.

[Del Murder]

Watchmen was about as faithful as you could have crammed into a single film. But like others, my favorite is the Dark Knight. That one will be hard to top since it transcends 'comic book movie' and is just all around a terrific movie.

[Colonel Angus]

The Captain America: The Winter Soldier
The Dark Knight Rises
The Dark Knight
The Avengers
The Wolverine

[I Took the Red Pill]

Batman Begins.

[Shorty]

The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises are the bets to beat for me, and I don't think they will ever be one-upped. I also really enjoy how true to the story Sin City stays, and they did an excellent job at an adaptation, and Watchmen is good stuff too.

[Shiny]

The Dark Knight

Winter Soldier had too much of Nick Fury.

[Shorty]

You're goddamn right it did. And it was stupid.

[Colonel Angus]

Too much Nick Fury?

Winter Soldier was a masterpiece.

[Shorty]

It would have been a masterpiece if there was about 90% less Nick Fury! He's already a centerpiece for the goddamn Avengers movies!

I went in wanting a tsunami of Chris Evans and instead I got Samuel L.'s frowny mug glaring at me on screen for half the duration of the film

[Ayen]

I would side with you, Colonel, but you put The Dark Knight Rises over the Dark Knight. You're on your own on this one.

[Forsaken Lover]

If we're going with "unpopular" opinions here, I thought The Avengers was pretty boring. Let's get this out of the way -
1. Loki is overplayed. He was good in the first Thor movie, but he was a caricature of himself in The Avengers
2. RDJ's Iron Man is played out. I GET IT, YOU'RE THE SNARKY ONE. IT'S NOT FUNNY ANYMORE.
3. There's a EEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL Group of Puppet Masters controlling the World/United States/something. I mean, damn Whedon, could you be any more unoriginal? They were in like shadows too weren't they? On big TV screens? Lame as all hell.


Now...as for best comic-based film, it really frickin' annoys me when everyone forgets The Crow.