Comic Book Question of the Week VOTING: What's Your Favorite Comic Book Movie Reboot?

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Poll Comic Book Question of the Week VOTING: What's Your Favorite Comic Book Movie Reboot? (404 votes)

The Amazing Spider-Man 11%
Batman Begins 37%
Captain America: The First Avenger 10%
Dredd 21%
Fantastic Four 0%
The Incredible Hulk 2%
Man of Steel 16%
The Punisher 1%
Punisher: War Zone 1%
Transformers 1%

Reboots are definitely not in short supply nowadays. Some do a brilliant job bringing a franchise back, while others...well, let's just be nice and say they fail to capture what makes the source material special. Later this year, we'll see a whole new approach to Godzilla and TMNT, but this week, RoboCop is coming back to theaters (check out our review HERE). So, let's be all kinds of topical and reflect on the comic book movie reboots we've watched over the last decade or so. We've placed ten of these films on the poll (we've added Transformers because of the epic animated movie) and your job is simple: pick your favorite one and, if you're up for it, tell us why the reboot rocks. Go on, get your vote on.

The poll will stay open until Thursday morning (ET). Two days should be enough time to rewatch a few of these movies if you really want to, right? Be sure to check the homepage on Thursday for the updated article. Not only will it contain the poll's results, but it'll also highlight some of the best posts Viners made about these movies. That could be you. Yes, you, so go make an awesome post about why you love one of these films!

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It's fun that these "reboots" sort of never had any original movies to begin with.

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It's fun that these "reboots" sort of never had any original movies to begin with.

Such as?

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It's fun that these "reboots" sort of never had any original movies to begin with.

They all had prior existing live action movies.

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#4  Edited By k4tzm4n  Moderator
@themanintheshoe said:

It's fun that these "reboots" sort of never had any original movies to begin with.

Batman Begins: Burton's Batman

The Amazing Spider-Man: Raimi's Spider-Man

Dredd: Stallone's Judge Dredd

The Incredible Hulk: Lee's Hulk

The Punisher: Lundgren's Punisher

Punisher War Zone: Whole new take on the franchise yet again = reboot.

Man of Steel: Donner's Superman.

Transformers: Transformers: The Movie (biggest exception but that's why it's... you know, mentioned in the article)

Captain America: The First Avenger: '90 Captain America

Fantastic Four: '94 Fantastic Four

Care to actually say what you voted for now?

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Transformers, Captain America , FF shouldn't be considered reboots. Obviously Batman Begins will win for best reboot due to how bad some of the previous films were and how popular he is as a character. But I think Dredd was a better reboot being more faithful to the source material.

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I voted for Batman Begins. It made Batman relevant in movies again. Man of Steel would be my second choice, followed by Captain America.

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I voted for Man of Steel. Would have voted Dredd but Man of Steel was SO underrated! Granted Dredd failed in the box office but everyone thinks its awesome so...

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I think Dredd should take this.

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I went with Man of Steel. Dredd was amazing, though.

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Transformers, Captain America , FF shouldn't be considered reboots. Obviously Batman Begins will win for best reboot due to how bad some of the previous films were and how popular he is as a character. But I think Dredd was a better reboot being more faithful to the source material.

That's like saying MoS shouldn't be considered a reboot.

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Hmm... Tough choice for me... Batman Begins, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, or Man of Steel...?

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Dredd , true representation of Judge Dredd , great acting & a great Rated R comic book movie in a long time

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Batman Begins and Man of Steel

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#16  Edited By k4tzm4n  Moderator

WHOA, DREDD IS IN FIRST PLACE?

YOU'RE AMAZING, COMIC VINE.

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#17  Edited By TheManInTheShoe

@k4tzm4n: @dedrabbit: @mk111: I wasn't trying to saying this wasn't a real contest. But what I'm saying is, for example the FF movie was never released.

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#18  Edited By inferiorego  Staff

DREDD!

War Zone a close second. ASM a close third.

Lots of close happening.

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#19  Edited By Vulshock

Voted Batman. Haven't seen the Stalone Dredd movie and I'm not familiar with the source material.

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#20  Edited By Jphu8414

Whoa Dredd is winning this thing? I ain't even mad I guess, it was pretty awesome

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Dredd was Awesome but I vote for MOS!

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Dredd all the way, fantastic film that was true to the source material

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Amazing Spider Man hands down

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#24  Edited By GeekyEverAfter

I voted for Man of Steel, but I'm hoping the new fantastic four reboot will be my favorite.

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Amazing Spider Man

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DREDD!!! Everything a Reboot should be, all in one fantastic movie package.

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Dredd

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#28  Edited By Wolverine008

Batman Begins and The Amazing Spider-Man.

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Mos.

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I chose Man of Steel but it was between that and Dredd

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Dredd though Batman Begins runs it close.

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Definitely Dredd, I doubt it'll win considering it isn't marvel or DC though.

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Amazing Spider-Man, for one film, has been a far better telling of Spider-Man for me so far. The Nolan Batman trilogy was excellent as well, as was Man of Steel. Dredd was decent. Going to give my vote to Spider-Man.

Most excited for Godzilla this year though.

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I am really divided here between Batman Begins and Captain America The First Avengers.And if anybody is confused here why is there even a comparision between the two for me it's because even not good enough the original and first Batman movie was still good enough while the Captain America movie was full bs.

Batman Begins is the best of all of the movies maybe even combined for me but there shouldn't be such a thing as if it is a good reboot since the Batman series back in 90's were ruined just in the final two movies,while the first two were still good enough.


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#35  Edited By maxicere

DREDD the best !!!!

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The new Dredd movie is one that I've come back to and watched again and again. It's in the rotation of classic movies to watch with your friends.

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1.)Dredd 2.)Batman Begins 3.)Captain America: The First Avenger 4.)The Amazing Spider-Man 5.)Transformers 6.)Man of Steel 7.)Fantastic Four 8.)The Incredible Hulk

Never seen the Punisher movies, anyone recommend them?

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#38  Edited By Mutant God

Batman of course

don't care for MoS or ASM

surprise Superman Returns is not on here

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Batman.

Swear to me!!

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Fantastic Four is getting no votes so I'm happy

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#41  Edited By kennybaese

I adore Dredd, but I don't think it's going to launch a franchise. This makes it more of a remake than a reboot in my opinion.

Batman Begins, on the other hand, was pretty incredible, especially given how far the Batman movie franchise had fallen. Coincidentally, I re-watched all three movies over the weekend, and while there are some over all tonal inconsistencies, the trilogy as a whole is a cohesive, epic, and moving story about what the Batman is. Batman Begins started that, with a balance of the dark, gothic look and comic book tone of the Tim Burton movies with the hyper-realistic cityscapes realistic(ish) terrorist drama that dominated the other two movies.

Batman Begins made Batman relevant again in a way he wouldn't have been without it, and set the stage for The Dark Knight's demand that comic book film be taken seriously and not dismissed entirely as popcorn entertainment. For that alone it gets my vote.

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Dredd was awesome, but I voted MoS it was amazing.

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@inferiorego: I remember thinking pretty lowly of War Zone when it came out. Maybe I should go back and watch it again.

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Imma go ahead and be apart of the minority that says Man of Steel.

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Definitely Man of Steel.

Batman of course

don't care for MoS or ASM

surprise Superman Returns is not on here

Returns wasn't a reboot. It took place after Superman 2.

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Batman Begins. Loved it when I first saw it and I still love it every time I re-watch it.

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Come on Dredd

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#48  Edited By ULTRAstarkiller

Batman Begins for me. It's a movie but it's one of my favorite Batman stories of all time.

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Dredd or man of steel. Those are awesome.

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@erik: How is Transformers a reboot? It never had any prior live action films, not to mention the only film was animated. Hardly a reboot. FF and Cap both had horrible never in theatres films that should never have been made, I don't count those. MoS had previous successful films albeit some that weren't so successful, none the less none of the Supes films were as atrocious as the first FF and Cap movies.