3. Superman Returns 
For the life of me I do not understand why this film has as much hatred as it does. I love this movie, and many critics do too. This film was given many 5 stars and features on Empire Magazine's 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time... and I honestly think it deserves its place on that list (I even voted for it). OK, so it is hardly action packed and full of thrills... but we as an audience are mature enough to deal with and accept a Superhero film more about its characters than about its action scenes... aren't we? Despite the slightly lackluster performance by Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane, in my opinion Brandon Routh is fantastic in the role of Superman... he is personally my favorite screen version of this character. If you watch the original Christopher Reeve Superman film a day or so before watching this film (as I did) you will appreciate what a real love letter this film is to the originals, and though I probably just about prefer X2 to this film, I still think Bryan Singer has never directed a film better. And for all you action lovers, the plane scene is pretty terrific isn't it? I guess the reason this film wasn't all that much of a success with comic book geeks and action movie lovers is that Superman Returns was arguably more of a romance story than the classic superhero film. Superman is such a complex and sympathetic character, and unlike superheroes like Iron Man and Thor, Superman (despite being the most powerful of them all) is the more sympathetic character- and sympathetic characters work better as protagonists. Strangely also, despite the fact that Superman is an alien from another planet, he is probably the most human superhero there is. I would really have loved to have seen a sequel to this great movie, although having said this, when a sequel was rumored I didn't at all like what I was hearing about it, and perhaps for this reason a reboot is the wiser option. Superman Returns was mature, brave and unique, and the superhero genre is the one movie genre that is in desperate need of being shaken up just a little or it will certainly face death somewhere down the line. Plus, the movie ended with Superman realizing he had a super-powered child with Lois Lane... and I for one would love to see where this story was intended to be heading.