User blog comment:Ultimate Heatblast/The Dark Knight Rises vs The Amazing Spider-Man/@comment-4003584-20120726193423

Here's how i rank this year's most hyped up Comic book movie in terms of which one's best and which isn't:

1. Marvel's The Avengers: it is just absolutely fantastic, the greatest comic book movie ever made. great acting, great dialogue, great jokes, great effects, the whole thing is just really great. it definitely raises the bar for Marvel Comics based movies (although most of them tend to do very well with critics and audiences). Solid 4 stars out of 4 for Avengers, btw, I went to see it 3 times in the theaters (1 time in Imax 3D, one time in regular 3D, 1 time in 2D) all in the same month it came out.

2. The Amazing Spider-Man: very good flick. not as good Avengers, but it still holds up well and is quite impressive. it is nice to see Peter as being more of a genius than the Spidey from the Sam Raimi series. Andrew Garfield gives a pretty solid performance as your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, and the other cast members are also very good in here. 3 and 1/2 stars out of 4 for the latest Spider-Man movie.

3. The Dark Knight Rises: I'll admit, this movie has some good moments as well as some good acting & dialogue but I kind of feel like it could have been more epic than it is. I hate to say it but this is somewhat the least impressive film in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy. The first half seems rather slow (as soon Bane arrived in Gotham and Bruce Wayne became Batman again, I started to get a little more invested and stayed that way for the rest of the film). I really like Batman but I really feel as if this film could have been as grand finale as the last Harry Potter movie is but, it seems kind of underwhelming. I think Christian Bale is good in here as Batman (perhaps better than in the previous film), Anne Hathaway is great and fun to watch as Catwoman (she definitely seemed like she was having a lot fun playing Selina Kyle), and Bane is a pretty good villain (even though at some points i can't understand his or Batman's dialogue). overall, I give The Dark Knight Rises 3 stars out of 4.