Top 10 Superhero Moments In Film (MSNBC)

[A Gunslinger]

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19100979/

Wjast do ya'll think?

I loved scene #9. That movie is one of my all time faves.

Don't agree with the placement of some of this stuff. And there is some MISSING. For example ...Magneto saying "Humans and their Guns"...

[Usivius]

Very cool list.
I don't agree with it all, or might think of a few others, but, hey, give the guy credit: he picked some pretty good ones. And his write-up were spot on.
For example, #1 i totally agree with:

It’s near the end of the movie and once again Spider-Man takes off his mask. But this time it makes sense. He’s revealing his humanity to Doc Ock in order to bring out the humanity in Doc Ock. It works. Octavius agrees to sacrifice himself and destroy his experiment in order to save the city. Spider-Man watches him go.
Then he turns and there’s Mary Jane and we get the shot: the revelation of a superhero’s identity, power and love all in one. It’s the culmination of 100 years of superhero making. From the Scarlet Pimpernel to Zorro to Superman to Spider-Man, there’s been a girl. The girl loves the hero but dislikes, or is disappointed in, or doesn’t even acknowledge, the hero in his secret form. It’s the classic love triangle of superhero-dom and a solace for unrequited lovers everywhere — i.e., she rejects me (Clark), but she doesn’t see the real me (Superman). She rejects me because she fails to see what’s super in me. The superhero love triangle plays upon our deepest, saddest fantasies.

And here, in one scene, the girl finally gets it. The disconnect is connected. The two men become one.

Kirsten Dunst, bless her heart, pulls it off. A shocked intake of breath, a camera close-up as myriad emotions cross her face, ending in a small, grateful smile. It all makes sense now.

I have to admit, when Peter Parker’s gaze goes from Mary Jane to the roof collapsing above her, I thought: Oh crap, they’re not going to let this last. I thought: She’ll probably get hit on the head and develop amnesia and blah blah blah. I’d seen it a million times. I’d see it again with Harry Osborne in “Spider-Man 3.”

Bless their hearts, they didn’t go this route. Instead an unmasked Spider-Man stops the roof. And then they do something really, really smart. They have him act like Peter Parker. “Hi,” he says, all goofy and tongue-tied. And then: “This is really heavy.” It’s perfect. Not just “Oh, the geek is actually a hero,” but “Oh, the hero is really a geek.”

great scene!

[A Gunslinger]

Agreed.

[matrixman]

That article was a fun read! Thanks, Guns.

Strongly agree with No. 9 - Uncle Ben's death in Spider-Man. It was heartbreaking because Cliff Robertson made Ben so human and vulnerable in the buildup to his demise.

I still haven't seen Spidey 2, but I'm glad to read that they didn't pull a Superman II-type copout (where Clark kisses Lois and she "magically" forgets he's Superman).

Also agree with No. 4 - Pyro blowing up the cop cars in X2 real good. I only recently watched X2, and well, the whole movie blew me away. It's just bursting with powerful scenes.

Can't argue with No. 2 either - Superman rescuing Lois from freefall. The original 1978 Superman film remains one of my all-time favorites.