What do you think is the best superhero movie of the 2010s?

In what is a great condition by live action standards, I think Logan is a sell-out of 8/10 or 4 stars out of five; even though it's been two years since I've seen this movie, But my memory of it is that it did things Marvel Studios would never do. It's mature, gory, and proves that its story, like most of the MCU movies cough*Ant-Man*cough*?Captain Marvel?*cough, can exist in this age of cookie-cutter crap. Even though I haven't seen the movie in a long time, I still consider it the best movie in the X-Men series, not the First Class or Deadpool movies (which I loved).

Now that that’s out of the way, I think the best superhero movies of the 2010s (at least in my opinion) are:

What Hereditary did for the horror genre this year , Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse did for superhero movies; both took washed-up genres and rejuvenated them with new life, excitement, and well-crafted craft.

There is no doubt that "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" is the best superhero movie of the 2010s.

-My original four-star review of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

As an old Spider-Man who has been rewatching Sam Raimi The Dark Knight trilogy (or my "Holy Trilogy" of Pizza Timers) and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, I've been filming since I was 11 The perception of superhero movies (e.g. The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier) has become jaded and cynical, growing to see most people as cookie-cutter and manufactured on an assembly line.

When I was a kid in the 2000s (before I could even understand things like cinematography, editing, and sound design), I was reminded of movies that were visually stunning:

As Marvel and DC become contenders in the "make a movie for our cinematic universe every year" competition, these types of movies are slowly disappearing, and I'm not happy with the standard type of movie-making promoted by the MCU and DCEU. Increasingly interested because almost everyone else, I don't know.

Eventually, as a painter and aspiring animator/storyboard artist, I started learning art terms like composition, composition, and lighting and discovered that art has a lot to do with film. place, so I also learn through podcasts and YouTube videos, even though I haven’t formally studied.

That's where the cynicism comes in: learn the terms, go back to old movies and find out how great they were, and then go back to something like the MCU movies and see how mediocre they were.

After re-watching Spider-Man 2 and The Dark Knight in 2018 (and forgetting about Logan), I think all hope has been lost for modern superhero cinema. Disney ultimately won the contest with its regular cookie cutter product.

Then Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse came out and proved me wrong.

It's an understatement to say that I rave about this movie;? After coming out of the theater, I was debating with myself if I really liked it or loved it (hence my Originally rated four stars), because what I saw was an awesomely crafted homage to one of the greatest creations in fiction: Spider-Man.

The cinematics, storyboards and animations are visually striking and stunning.

The sound design (especially everything about Prowler) is fantastic.

The story, writing, and character descriptions are interesting and heartfelt. And truly inspiring.

The comic-inspired aesthetic made me want to jazz-up

Regardless, Into the Spider-Web became not just my favorite superhero or animated movie of 2018, but the entire decade Damn one of my favorite movies. On December 12, 2018, I thought the holy trilogy of comic book adaptations had taken shape: Spider-Man 2, The Dark Knight, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

Fucking Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Fucking Ant-Man.

Fucking Captain Marvel.

Fuck every one of those mediocre, mediocre movies that sacrifice artistic integrity for cheap laughs and mediocre filmmaking.

Because Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse blew them all out of the water and proved that superhero movies with creative substance and style can still be successful.