10 Best Superheroes Relay

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Bubbawheat over at Flights, Tights, and Movie Nights (another blog title I'm jealous of) passed me the baton to his very interesting 10 Best Super Heroes relay. This isn't just any old relay where you swap one, add one, and keep going. His rules are very specific:

 1. The list of movies will be passed to another blogger who will post their list within a week.

 2. The blogger will take their list, remove 3 movies – with explanations, and replace with 3 new movies – with explanations.

 3. If a movie lasts five rounds without being removed, it becomes locked in; it is permanent and can no longer be removed from the list.

 4. If a movie is removed three different times, it is locked out and can no longer be put back onto the list by someone else.

 5. Once four movies are locked into place, bloggers will replace 2 movies.

 6. Once eight movies are locked into place, bloggers will replace 1 movie.
7. Once all ten movies are locked into place, the relay will be complete.

 Here's the relay as I received it. The locked titles are in bold.

 The Avengers

 The Dark Knight

 Spider-Man 2

 Iron Man

 Unbreakable

 The Rocketeer
The Incredibles

 X-Men: First Class 

 Kick-Ass 

 Blade 2 

 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 
Superman II 

 I'm removing:
X-Men: First Class - This is not the best X-Men film out there, so it simply cannot stay.

Kick-Ass - Because it's kind of overrated, and I have another "random person becomes a masked vigilante movie in mind."

 I'm adding:

 X2: X-Men United - Now THIS is my favorite X-Men movie.
Super - Super may be the least well, "super" movie on this list, but I absolutely love this little seen indie and I think it deserves a spot for charisma alone.
It was tough only removing 2, I actually wanted to remove several, but this was a fun twist on the normal relay. I'm passing this long to the very funny M. Brown at Two Dollar Cinema

Other participants:
A Fistful of Films
Flixchatter
The Focused Filmographer
Life vs. Film
Simplistic Reviews
InSession Film
GeekCastRadio
Dell on Movies
Jeffrey K. Lyles’ Movie Files

Comments

  1. s.October 19, 2014 at 9:00 AM

    Oh THANK YOU for removing that pile of feces that is Kick Ass!

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  2. UnknownOctober 19, 2014 at 11:03 AM

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't like Kick Ass. My husband and daughter thoroughly enjoyed it, but I my response was WTF?!? Seriously??

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    1. Brittani BurnhamOctober 19, 2014 at 11:46 PM

      It wasn't anything special. The best part was the soundtrack.

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  3. m.brownOctober 19, 2014 at 4:52 PM

    Oh yeah! Blade 2! I was going to put that on there for sure.

    Brittani...I like your picks, though I've never seen Super. And First Class is good, but overrated. X2 all the way!

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    1. Brittani BurnhamOctober 19, 2014 at 11:46 PM

      Thank you! I think you'd dig Super, actually. You should check it out.

      Delete
  4. AnonymousOctober 19, 2014 at 5:26 PM

    Thanks for taking part! At this rate, I'm not sure if any X-Men movie is going to make it in since it seems like everyone disagrees with which one is the best so they keep rotating out. I hope at least one makes it to the top 10. Super is a great underrated choice, though I don't see it lasting. Nice choices.

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    1. Brittani BurnhamOctober 19, 2014 at 11:26 PM

      Yeah, I don't see it lasting either, but I had to put it in. Thank you for thinking of me!

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  5. Big Screen Small WordsOctober 19, 2014 at 9:00 PM

    Great choices! Kick Ass doesn't live up to its hype (and I didn't see what the big deal was with the movie). I have yet to see Super, might give that a go sometime.

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    1. Brittani BurnhamOctober 19, 2014 at 11:24 PM

      You definitely should, Super is hysterical, then shit gets very real.

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  6. UnknownOctober 20, 2014 at 6:49 AM

    Great choices! I really want to see Super, I'm making a mental note to up this in my 'watch next' list. I enjoyed Kick-Ass but thought the second one was awful.
    - Allie

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    1. Brittani BurnhamOctober 20, 2014 at 9:34 PM

      Super is great! I hope you get a chance to check it out.

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  7. JoshDecember 2, 2014 at 2:10 PM

    Oh, X2 is great. I need to give Super a look.

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