Avengers is THE best super hero movie thus far.

[rocketpig]

Mordred11 said:

rocketpig said:

Okay, I have to ask. Outside of the visuals, what makes Sin City so great? Its schlocky dialogue? The gratuitous T&A? The corny acting? Once you get past the stunning visuals, the movie is incredibly mediocre. I enjoy the movie and have watched it a half dozen times but as an overall movie, The Avengers is a better film. The Watchmen was okay. Spider-Man 2 was decent.

Outside of TDK, all the movies you listed are somewhere between mediocre and good, not great.

There is nothing quite like Sin City's atmosphere,there was absolutely no boring moment for me.The violence displayed in the movie was both brutal and entertaining at the same.Overall,I just love the storyline,and the movie stays very true to it's original material.

In my eyes,it's a timeless classic,because it shows the dark side of humanity in a very entertaining,but disturbing way.

Saying that Sin City is mediocre places you in the minority,since it's highly rated between both critics and audiences.

Ugh. "The dark side of humanity?" Sin City is a classic Frank Miller wankfest. I actually enjoyed the movie quite a bit (and I didn't call the movie mediocre, I said once you get past the visuals, it's a mediocre film... but hey, visuals still count) but it's the kind of "dark realism" that a juvenile thinks is real while adults roll their eyes. Hell, Miller's "dark and gritty realism" is what caused the early 90s to be called "the death of comic books". Miller does a decent job with Sin City but it's not even close to his best work and by the time the comic came out in the early 90s, I was getting tired of those kinds of stories because, well, because I was growing up.

Again, Sin City is stunning visually and a decent movie overall but it's far from perfect and it didn't receive anything close to the ratings of either TDK or The Avengers. It's currently sitting at 78% on Rotten Tomatoes compared to 93 for The Avengers and 94 for TDK. I don't put a lot of stock into reviews but when a movie is sitting over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, you can almost be sure it's a quality film.