What do you consider the first "modern" superhero movie?
 

The way I see it, there were 4 turning points for what gave us the modern superhero movie:

- Batman 1989. Tim Burton's Batman reinvented Batman for the general public who remembered him from the campy 60's show. It also introduced Batman and Joker to a whole new younger generation of kids from the 80's and 90's (like myself). The series also spawned B:TAS.

- X-men 2000. The first X-men film from 16 years ago, of a movie franchise that's still going today. After Batman and Robin killed superhero movies in 1997....it was only 3 years later that X-men revived it. Its also rather obvious the success of X-men eventually paved the way for Spiderman and the Marvel universe

- Nolan's Batman. The films brought Batman back once again in a brilliant reboot and were critically acclaimed (at least the first two), and paved the way for Batman to be a success in theaters again after Batman and Robin

- Iron Man...the start of the Marvel Universe. Says enough in itself, this paved the way for all Marvel movies that came after it.


What do you consider the first modern superhero movie?

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Well that was fast. 3 posts in and this thread is already ruined. Amazing.

You usually ruin other threads so you better shut your goddamn mouth.

Not this early!

I changed my mind, to get this back on track.
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You did pretty much cover the entire spectrum with your first post. I personally have to credit Batman '89, or whichever Superman movie preceded it. I honestly don't know or care when any of the old Superman films came out.

For me, the breakout mainstream comic book movies are Iron Man and The Dark Knight. Other gamechanger modern movies happened, but they were not as widely promoted or enjoyed.

I guess it depends what you mean with "modern superhero" movies. Blade made superheroes pop back on the list of being marketable after washing away the stank of Pyun's Captain America, Judge Dredd, Spawn, Steel and of course Batman & Robin.

But Blade isn't a costumed superhero per se, so there's Singer's X-Men from 2000 and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man from 2002, especially Spider-man being a hit modern superhero movie with a flashy costume.

There's always 1978 Superman which did great things for superhero movies, and 1989 Batman which showed that Mr. Mom could play a serious superhero.

Most superhero comic book movies are either failed pilots (1978 Doctor Strange), obscure TV movies like Reb Brown's Captain America or not considered actual superheroes or even known that they originated from superhero comic books like 1989 The Punisher is basically Punisher in-name only.

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Wtf man.

For me it's the 1989 Batman movie, and then that movie was followed the next year by the first TMNT movie. However, that's just the way that I look at it. This is something that's just going to vary from person to person.

The funniest part of it all is the 1989 Batman movie is like 26 years old. I wonder how old something can still be to consider it "modern."

The young kids of today who grew up in the late 90's and 2000's would probably scoff at some "80's movie" being modern. The kids of today turn their nose up at older stuff.

Superman: The Movie from 1978. Though it is campy by today's standards, it adapted a comic book character into what at the time was a very realistic setting. And those flying effects look better (imo) than the ones in Man of Steel.

It, along with its first sequel, really changed the way superheroes appeared on film.

I may be one of those so called 90s kids, but I still really appreciate it.

I think I'd choose the first X-Men movie, because I don't consider Burton's Batman and its sequels modern.

Fixed that for you.

I love how some people are legitimately trying to have a conversation here after the thread's already been derailed. In fact, this very reply pointing out is hypocritical as all hell. F*ck me.

So lemme balance it out. I honestly consider The Avengers a turning point in superhero movies, as most people saw them as standalone flicks before. When Avengers came out, however, the ability to make an entire series out of multiple superheroes was no longer just a nerd's wet dream, and superhero movies pretty much became its own "genre", if you will, because of The Avengers and the movies after The Avengers.

I feel like this thread is a trap. Tell Cubed your opinion so he can tell you why you are wrong. :lol:

Anyways for me it's Spiderman (2002). This was the first huge box office success and mainstream comic book movie of this era. It propelled us into a plethora of movies base on comic books and had we not had that time of some of those sub par comic book movies we wouldn't be getting the amazing ones we are today. I think that movie really opened studios eyes and Marvel hit the oh crap button.

Howard the Duck. Supes did movies first, but Howard was the first to use a non-"human" comic character and is STILL the most obscure charcater to get a movie of his own. In a way, he paved the way for many other little-known heroes to get movies. "If they could do it with Howard...."

I win.....