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    Quote Originally Posted by j9ac9k View Post
    Isn't the point of Die Hard that he's specifically not super-human like other 80s action heroes?
    Agreed, particularly for the first DH film. From the swat team ambush scene in the second film on, however, I can see the argument holding up.

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    Almost every iteration of Sherlock Holmes.

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    Personally, I prefer super-hero to have a specific meaning. The more you stretch the meaning of a word, the less useful that word becomes.

    Any movie with a super-hero in it is by definition a super-hero movie.

    But unlike a western, a rom-com, a space opera--super-hero movies are pretty open in what they can be--they just need to have a super-hero in them. They can be westerns, rom-coms, space operas. Any genre of movie can have a super-hero in it.

    And when it comes to comic book movies, there's even less restrictions. They don't need to have super-heroes in them. All a comic book movie needs is to be adapted (or inspired) in some way by a comic book.

    It's like if there was a category of movie called the Brit Lit movie. All it would need is to be adapted from British literature--which is wide open.

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    Quote Originally Posted by j9ac9k View Post
    Isn't the point of Die Hard that he's specifically not super-human like other 80s action heroes?
    I was thinking that too. Only saw the first one but seems he's tough against normal people and ordinary "tough guys" but not against people like marine martial arts masters aka action movie characters.
    Power with Girl is better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by luprki View Post
    Definitely Baywatch
    You know you're right. No human possesses the ability to run that slowly.

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    Weird movie but I enjoyed it. The "superhero" part only shows up at the end.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CliffHanger2 View Post
    He did pull off some above average stuff.
    Above average dumbassery.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheRay View Post
    Above average dumbassery.
    Well yeah that's kinda a staple of his movies lol.

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    The Vampires from The Twilight movies. breaking dawn part 2 ,those were not vampires. they were some very generic version of mutants.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CliffHanger2 View Post
    Well yeah that's kinda a staple of his movies lol.
    Not Scorpion King. Mostly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrNewGod View Post
    From the moment Rambo goes nuts in the Cop Shop, I'd say First Blood qualifies.
    I'd actually disagree with this one. In First Blood, John Rambo was a man with skills going up against cops and weekend warriors, so I'd say it is fairly realistic. It's when you get to First Blood Part II it starts going into Superhero land.

    Quote Originally Posted by TheRay View Post
    You know you're right. No human possesses the ability to run that slowly.
    You've never seen me run

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    Ravenous has super powered people who are definitely not heroes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AnakinFlair View Post
    You've never seen me run
    You missed your calling then.

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    Defining a superhero as someone who can routinely accomplish physical feats no ordinary person can do.
    That seems to be a really weak definition of a superhero.

    I wouldn't consider most of the characters in this topic superheroes. Superheroes need a superhero name and costume.

    There's a big difference between a guy named Clark that has powers and SUPERMAN.

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    Quote Originally Posted by batnbreakfast View Post
    Darkman
    The Shadow
    Conan
    Solomon Kane
    Unbreakable/Split/Glass
    Highlander
    Robocop
    Dune
    VforVendetta
    You must have a pretty narrow view of what a superhero is if you don't think that at least some of the movies on the list are superhero mvoies.
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