Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther” has been voted the greatest superhero movie of all time, according to a new list published by Rolling Stone magazine.
The list covers fifty titles which at least six of their writers consider the greatest of all time and include some surprising placements for a few titles. It’s a list designed to provoke talk which it does.
No mention of the first “Blade” or Burton’s first “Batman,” but “The Old Guard” and “Megamind” make the list? “Spider-Man: Homecoming” better than the first ‘Guardians’ and second “Captain America”?
Other rankings will score a better reception – “Batman: The Mask of the Phantasm” and “Batman Returns” placed fairly high, “Batman Begins” placed well above “The Dark Knight Rises,” “The Rocketeer” and “Darkman” getting great shoutouts, even “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” making the cut.
Describing why they put “Black Panther” in the first position, the outlet says: “It proved that you could successfully fuse a filmmaker’s sensibility into the MCU without compromising the corporate bottom… it proved that superhero movies could be about Âsomething more than just entertainment.”
Other films making the Top 10 were “Spider-Man 2,” “Logan,” “Avengers: Endgame,” Donner’s “Superman”, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” “The Dark Knight,” “Thor: Ragnarok,” “Wonder Woman” and “The Incredibles”.
For the full list, head over to Rolling Stone.
