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Yes, please ignore origin movies like Batman Begins, Spider-Man, Superman The Movie and Iron Man because it's not like they were better THAN ALMOST EVERY MOVIE ON YOUR LIST OR ANTHING (The Incredibles may be the best superhero movie ever made)! And then there's the small matter that Darkman was an "origin" film, while X-Men and Blade, which weren't on your list, were not!
This is right up there with Top Ten Science Fiction Comedies as a completely lame list from IO9 where you violate your own conditions, not to mention logic and I'm beginning to think at the heart of it is some odd quest to make people like Mystery Men. This is IO9's version of "fetch" and it's not going to happen.
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@NotArthurPDragon: I'm conflicted. You're making a rude comment that sort of misses the point of the article (unconventional superhero movie gimmicks) yet, you used one of my favorite Mean Girls references...
Charlie stated "almost every superhero movie follows a drab formula, walking us through the good guy's origin story"and every film on your list falls into that category. This list is about interesting ideas and concepts that other filmakers should take note of. It's not a "best superhero movies" list.
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@Evlsushi: It's an awful list and X-Men and Blade are good superhero/comic book movies that don't follow through what she claims is a "drab formula" but are shunted aside for this agenda of trying to make Mystery Men into anything other than a waste of time and money. It also ignores it's not the technique, but the execution of said technique, because some of the greatest films ever made follow a formula, but what differentiates them is how its done. For example: this is another list, but it's a lousy execution of one. Does that means they should adopt a new formula too? Almost every movie listed is not only horrible, but hardly groundbreaking and ultimately poor examples of the false premise, never moreso than when violating it outright by using movies like Darkman WHICH IS AN ORIGIN STORY!
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