100 Greatest Comic Book Movies Of All Time
84. Batman And Robin
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze. A 27 year-old Robin who shouts "Cowabunga!" while on a surfboard in space. Bat-nipples. "My rubber lips are immune to your charms" Need I go on?
Batman & Robin is like some corporately-mandated, "what will the kids like?" question sprawled across a spreadsheet and injected with the whims of Hollywood's A-list. It is nothing less than an in-motion disaster; a contrast-too-high smorgasbord of buzzwords, DC references and angular architecture designed to evoke a version of Gotham no one who worked on this ever saw.
It is both enrapturing and disgusting; a triumph on some unknown scale that also made people hate Batman movies for EIGHT YEARS.
Oh, and there's a Bat-Credit Card.
[Scott Tailford]
83. Spawn
Can something be both before and after its time?
Spawn's reliance on computer generated hellscapes really, REALLY feel distracting in retrospect, and even at the time weren't the most believable, though if you loved the source material enough, it was admittedly great to see Todd McFarlane's designs on the big screen.
Sadly, that is nigh-on the only positive, as the CG imagery? It is DISASTROUS. Entire semi-meaningful scenes are ruined by godawful, fang-toothed creatures and explosions where static snapshots of characters are sent pirouetting off-screen.
Worth it literally just to point and say, "Ah, that's cool. Spawn", and nothing else.
[ST]
82. V For Vendetta
V For Vendetta is a hugely underrated movie - hence my solitary vote being the only one for it on this list, unbelievably - and often gets misremembered as not being a comic book movie in the first place. Just because it's not true Marvel or DC doesn't mean it doesn't count.
Anyway, it's incredibly clever, terribly pertinent and brilliantly plotted, while adapting one of Alan Moore's most essential works. Sure, it's not as flashy or as insistent as some of the superhero films on this ranking, but it's absolutely worth a re-evaluation alongside them.
[SG]