Which superhero movie won 2011?

This is a tough one, but I'm gonna go with Cap since it provoked the greatest emotional response from me.

Thanks for commenting EsseXFactor. As I was making this and thinking about the journey of Steve Rogers and the love story with Peggy, I really was thinking that maybe Cap deserved the top spot. The thing that probably held it back the most for me was that they dropped the ball in terms of delivering quality action scenes. The montage was pretty meh, and the Red Skull fight was a major disappointment.

Didn't like Sebastian Shaw at all. I thought Loki was the best antagonist.

Thanks for commenting Knightrider. Since it was the story of Fassbender's Erik becoming a villain and he wasn't actually an antagonist, I didn't find it appropriate to consider him for best villain. As for casting, I think he was great too. Thing is, he was really able to invent the character and do what he wants because that point of Magneto's life hasn't really been shown. We don't have a feel to judge if he was able to capture the character's personality or not because X-men First Class is not about the Magneto we know. Evans, Hemsworth, and Reynolds were in the position of having to portray characters that we're definitely able to judge from the standpoint of capturing that familiar essence. They're supposed to be live action versions of the characters we know.

Batman won,somehow :P

Thanks for reading Spidey and Ghostt. As I said to Knightrider, Fassbender is good, but he really wasn't playing the comic book Magneto. Chris Evans brought Steve Rogers as I know him from the comics to life. Hemsworth was good too, but his role was less challenging. IMO, portraying both the underdog sickly Steve Rogers and the heroic super soldier as well as Evans did was impressive.

Nobody seems to be watching the video, so I'll give the sparknotes version for why I chose Shaw over Loki. Shaw as a character is pretty decent. Evil, powerful, manipulative etc. The thing that pushed him over the edge and made him best villain for me is how he was used. Shaw's most important function is as a tool to forshadow the character Erik becomes. He's set up at the beginning as the person Erik focuses his hatred towards. When we reach the end and Erik has taken Shaw's helmet and assumed control of his group, we see that Erik's hatred has turned him into the person he hates the most. That's my main reason for choosing Shaw. He wasn't just a villain, but an important factor in one of the main character's internal struggle.

As for Loki, while he is the primary antagonist of Thor, he is somewhat in a position similar to Erik in First Class because he is not full on evil. This is the story of him fully becoming the Loki fans know. Hiddleston was able to portray him as a very sympathetic character. He feels out of place, unappreciated, and unloved. We're able to understand why he's jealous of Thor and would lash out at him. However, most of what Loki does isn't really the work of a cold, evil character. At the end, we see that he's seeking the approval of Odin through his actions. I might be wrong, but his initial plan was to just get Thor on Earth and out of the way. He wanted to wipe out the Frost Giants, but Thor seemed to want the same thing at the beginning of the film. I don't think any one would label Thor evil at that point though. Just brash and stupid.

Bottom line, Loki is a more interesting character than Sebastian Shaw, but the role Shaw played as a villain in relation to Erik (one of the film's main protagonists) is more well thought out. The role Loki played in relation to Thor's journey as a character is somewhat insignificant. He put major events in motion, but the lessons Thor learns on Earth that define who he is at the end don't have much to do with Loki.

Beat comedy shouldve gone to green lantern, I loled at some of the acting and the entire film was a joke:p

Nice addition DROMEO. Does the Sinestro thing really count as an Easter egg? It wasn't really hidden.

Captain America was flat out the best of last year.

X-Men was a vast improvement over the rest of the X-Men movies. However, Magneto goes bad entirely too soon in the story in my opinion. His turning bad should have been something that went on over the course of at least 1 more movie if not a complete trilogy. Also the timelines of characters established in prior movies was also a real mess.

Thor was good, and the casting of Hemsworth and Hiddleston was spot on perfect. But overall the story was lacking for me. It all happened too quick. Thor is without his powers for a weekend. In that time he is banished from Asgard, Odin falls into his Odin sleep and awakes from it, he completely changes his ways and attitude to become the type of man Odin wanted him to be, he dies, his brother turns full evil, he is returned his powers, meets and kicks the ass of a lot of SHIELD agents, is offered a job by Coulson, destroys the Destroyer and he falls deeply in love. The fact that this happens over 1 weekend is just a little too unrealistic.

Green Lantern was such a disappointment. It had the potential to be so much better. The scenes on Oa were great and the supporting characters on Oa, especially Sinestro were awesome, but so underused that you forget all about them. Reynolds wasn't bad in the movie either, it was just such a mess of a movie.

Cap was great. Had comedy, emotion and was casted perfectly. the relationship between Steve and Peggy was beautiful and so heartbreaking at the end. Steve's relationship with Howard Stark was great at it perfectly shows how Cap could be disappointed in the ways of Tony Stark in The Avengers, and will lead to great tension between the 2.
It also sets itself up for the possibility of a Winter Soldier storyline

Anyway, loki was clearly the best the villain. Shaw was a terrible representation, and red skull didnt seem as evil as he should have. Skull is one of tbe most evil and sadistic villains in all of comics, and he just felt a little watered down in the movie.

1. Thor
2. Captain America: The First Avenger

the other 2 dont matter to me at all

Thanks teabag! Thor had the worst action though? Worse than the Parallax fight?

@teabag, but Hal Jordan just made a hotwheels race track and a turret.

i will admit that the destroyer fight and the loki fight were pretty weak.

Thor
X-men First Class
Cap'n 'merica

Best villain? Sebastian shaw? Really? He came off as a cheesy generic villain.

The honor goes to either Sinestro or Loki.

Good article!

My only real problem with Sebastian Shaw was the lack of explanation why he didn't age or how he appeared to be a Nazi scientist before all the Hellfire stuff.

"Cap" was a great movie. You just couldn't beat "Thor" proving how fun and open to a general audience comic book movies should be. Also, great that it showed he's Marvel's Superman.

Big,

Cap is the inspirational and moral equivalent to Superman. Thor is the majestic and powerful equivalent. The segment wherein he destroys the Destroyer was everything DC/Warner should have done with Superman in the last movie. Thor unleashed all of his powers at once. It's more impressive than the Frost Giant battle since he was on Earth--a more human scale.