Most Underrated Comic Book Movies

[cadet]

And do you think Marvel should handle F4 better than Fox tried?

At this point F4 may work better as cameos or supporting characters in the MCU rather than yet another origin story

[AJBopp]

At this point F4 may work better as cameos or supporting characters in the MCU rather than yet another origin story

That may be the best way to rehabilitate the franchise, throw them into other movies like Spider-man in Civil War and grow into their own film again.

[AJBopp]

You know, I started this thread casting a vote for Howard the Duck. I just watched it again after, oh, 6 or 7 years.

I'm gonna change my vote to The Rocketeer. For the life of me, can't understand what I ever liked about HTD. Every single scene was 75% longer than it should have been, and needlessly noisy.

[numberthirty]

Now that I think about it, F4.

Way better than folks gave it credit for.

[Beaubier]

Dredd, aka the best movie that nobody watched.

Watchmen. It’s one of my favorite CBMs period.

[wonderlad]

There were redeeming elements to all the FF movies thus far:

1. in the first 2 movies - Reed, Ben, Johnny and the Surfer were fine / great. Sue, Galactus and Doom were the weak links
2. In F4 - the action was sort of ok with some good CGI. But storytelling was halfbaked.

[BishopsJuice91]

Incredible Hulk was awesome but suffered for the previous movie being terrible. ASM2 was a good movie to me too but underperformed at the box office. I also liked MoS a lot but some hate it.

[Speed Force League Unlimited]

Five movies into my X-Men movie marathon, and I still think The Last Stand is a good underrated movie.

I used to think the same about Origins: Wolverine, then came Batman V Superman and changed how I view comic book movies, I became very critical and more attentive to film flaws than I used to, boy is that movie bad, whether you look at it as a story on its own, continuity to the other X-Men films, or cheap effects.

Dredd, aka the best movie that nobody watched.

Any movie that has the character of Joseph Dredd is a favorite of mine. The new one could have used more views, and the old one isn't nearly as bad as its reputation.

[AJBopp]

Five movies into my X-Men movie marathon, and I still think The Last Stand is a good underrated movie.

I used to think the same about Origins: Wolverine, then came Batman V Superman and changed how I view comic book movies, I became very critical and more attentive to film flaws than I used to,

I am genuinely curious why you think The Last Stand is a good movie given your epiphany after watching Batman v Superman. For me, the killer of The Last Stand is the basic film flaw that the script makes Jean Grey into the most powerful being on Earth, but the final battle between the mutants leaves her entirely sidelined doing nothing. Ordered to do nothing, motivated to do nothing.

[Speed Force League Unlimited]

I am genuinely curious why you think The Last Stand is a good movie given your epiphany after watching Batman v Superman. For me, the killer of The Last Stand is the basic film flaw that the script makes Jean Grey into the most powerful being on Earth, but the final battle between the mutants leaves her entirely sidelined doing nothing. Ordered to do nothing, motivated to do nothing.

She almost annihilated every soldier in the field, and destroyed the facility.

[Osiris-Rex]

Justice League can now be added to the list. It wasn't great, but it wasn't as bad as the critics are making it out to be. It was a fun popcorn flick that you could just
kick back and enjoy. Not every movie needs to be Schindler's List.

[AJBopp]

Justice League can now be added to the list. It wasn't great, but it wasn't as bad as the critics are making it out to be. It was a fun popcorn flick that you could just
kick back and enjoy. Not every movie needs to be Schindler's List.

Ragnarok and Guardians of the Galaxy were fun popcorn flicks too, but the critics felt very differently about them. I don't think it being not Schindler's List was the issue for them

[Keyotheseasons]

I definitely think the Fantastic Four films from the mid-2000s (2005 and 2007) are really underrated and underappreciated. I really enjoyed the movies, but I can admit they could have been better.

I feel like if the first one would have had more action then it would have been a far better movie. And as far as the second one is concerned, I wish they would have left Doom out of it and focused more on the Silver Surfer and Galactus in the second half.

The movies may not have been anywhere near perfect, but they were in my opinion, enjoyable and the characters were recognizable to their comic book counterparts in both looks and personality. Also, I enjoyed seeing a superhero film that highlighted the normal lives of the characters as well as those of their superhero personas.

[TomServofan]

At this point F4 may work better as cameos or supporting characters in the MCU rather than yet another origin story

What about Silver Surfer, Galactus and Doom in the MCU?

[inisideguy]

Watchman by far.