> > http://superheroes.theringer.com/ <http://superheroes.theringer.com/> > > The 50 Best Superhero Movies of All Time > > “What is the best superhero movie?” > > This is probably a debate you’ve had before, and it’s probably a debate > you’ll have again. Look at the highest grossing films > <http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2017&p=.htm> of 2017 so far. > > Half of the top 10 are superhero movies, and by year’s end, the recently > released Thor: Ragnarok and the soon-to-be-released Justice League will > almost certainly make their way in there. Next year, you can safely bet that > Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Deadpool 2, Ant-Man and the Wasp, > Venom, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, and Aquaman will crack 2018’s top 10, or at least > get pretty close. This is the world we live in, and so superhero movies are > the thing we argue about over and over and over again. > > Because this debate is already well-worn territory, we at The Ringer set out > to develop a ranking that goes beyond personal opinions—to try to synthesize > the overall goals and spirit of these films in order to identify the ideal > superhero movies. In order to do that, we took into account four > factors—Critical Success, Box Office Performance, Rewatchability, and > Timelessness—and ran them through a fancy formula to come up with an overall > score. (In an effort to streamline this list, animated movies were not > considered.) Here’s how each of those factors were quantified: > > Critical Success (RT): This one is the simplest—we used each movie’s score on > Rotten Tomatoes. > Box Office Performance (ABOR): As much as you might like to think otherwise, > one of the primary goals of a superhero movie is to make money; that’s why it > was given equal weight in this process. Now, because we didn’t just want to > throw in a movie’s total gross into a formula— those numbers are in the > millions and that’d look unruly—and because it wouldn’t be fair to equate the > box office performance of 1978’s Superman with 2013’s Man of Steel, we > devised a little statistic called Adjusted Box Office Rating. ABOR is > calculated by adjusting each movie’s domestic total gross to 2017’s > standards, and then reverse ranking those adjusted totals, so that the > highest total gets the highest score, and the lowest gets the lowest score. > We know, this is deranged, but it’s worth it so just stick with us. > Rewatchability (RWA): For both Rewatchability and Timelessness, a select > group of Ringer superhero experts were asked to fill out a survey containing > two questions for each movie that was in consideration. The first question > was, “On a scale of 1-10 (1 being ‘absolutely no’ and 10 being ‘absolutely > yes’), would you rewatch this movie?” The group’s answers were then averaged > to achieve the RWA score. > Timelessness (RNA): The second question was “On a scale of 1-10 (1 being > ‘absolutely yes’ and 10 being ‘absolutely no’), could this movie be improved > by being remade?” This question hopes to determine how close to perfection > each movie came—the more it could use a remake, the argument goes, the less > perfect it is. Like RWA, the group’s answers were then averaged to achieve > the RNA score. > After getting those stats, each movie’s numbers were run through the > following formula: RT + ABOR + RWA + RNA. Each film was then ranked from > highest to lowest score. All of that is to say, the higher the score a > superhero movie has, the better it is. So without further ado—I swear we can > stop talking about math now—here’s how everything shook out. —Andrew > Gruttadaro
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