100 Greatest Comic Book Movies Of All Time
61. Daredevil (The Director’s Cut)
One of those times a Director's Cut completely changes the film and makes it far, FAR better, Daredevil's revisited form comes complete with a complete tonal rework, a shakeup in screentime so we see way more of Matt Murdock's lawyer life, and a far better handle on pacing.
Now, personally I've always loved the Daredevil character and mythology so much that it carried the original version, but across both you've got Michael Clarke Duncan's powerful, stoic Kingpin performance, plus Colin Farrell's RIDICULOUS Bullseye.
The latter is literally just full-on Irish Farrell killing people with everything from paperclips to peanuts, while Affleck's Daredevil is incredibly morose, though he does get to flatten a bar's worth of bikers to the tunes of Nickelback.
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60. The LEGO Batman Movie
In the post-DCEU world, The LEGO Batman Movie is an absolute joy. It's a breath of fresh air, a swaggering exercise in fun that reinvents the character way better than Zack Snyder did and with just as much attention to the source material. It's no mere spoof because it clearly adores the comics and its enthusiasm is infectious.
Will Arnett's performance is a beautiful homage as well as an impressive thing on its own terms, but it's just the cherry on top of a sundae made of the best ideas other Batman movies have ran with too. And who says having a Dark Knight movie this cheerful and consciously aimed at a family audience has to be a bad thing? Kids want to be Batman, they don't want to be the miserable old grump Snyder made him.
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59. Snowpiercer
Originally existing as 1982's Le Transperceneige, 2013's Snowpiercer stars Captain America himself, Chris Evans, as the leader of a band of downtrodden lower class workers attempting to reach the front of a train.
The catch? The train is 650 meters long, and comprises an entire mobile colony of people, divided workforces, opulent higher classes and a religious leader-type figure at the top.
As Evans and his crew decide they've had enough with being shunted to the back, you too get to take a fist-first tour through a standard post-apocalyptic hierarchy - complete with all the ramifications of keeping the train powered up along the way.
The result is utterly fantastic, bolstered by a script loaded with socio-political talking points laid bare for all to see.
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