The Dark Knight Rises vs. The Avengers vs. The Amazing Spider-Man

The year of 2012 has brought us many highly anticipated movie events, from The Hunger Games to the upcoming Skyfall and Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, but has been particularly influenced by The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers and The Amazing Spiderman. All three are superhero films, all three with high hopes in box office and critical acclaim and all three coming out more or less in summer. But which one did come out on top? Which one made the most money and was the best?


Sadly, the answer to the last two questions are in most cases different. But let's take a look at the box office results first. Rises and Spiderman are still screening in some theatres, but will not probably any more significant changes. Spiderman grossed approximately 700 million dolars worldwide, with the aid of the more expensive 3-D tickets. Rises was not released in 3-D, only in IMAX, but it was alone enough to make somewhere around 951 million dolars. The Avengers on the other hand, got a lot of help from the 3-D tickets and grossed  more then a billion worldwide, making it the third most financially succesful movie of all-time, behind James Cameron's Titanic and Avatar. Rises would have probably claimed victorious, if they counted the number of tickets sold, but sadly, that just isn't the case.

Now to tackle the more difficult theme: which one is the best movie? I would say Rises. The Avengers comes second and Spiderman  last. Now before you start typing raging comments, I saw all three movies and enyoyed all of them a lot. Chris Nolan's Batman's trilogy just completely surpassed the superhero genre and turned its movies into serious thrillers, that you can talk and polemize about them for hours. The Avengers wasn't trying to be more then just a fun comic-book movie and it succeded at that. It was very fun, had awesome special effects, hilarious dialogues and was one of the best movies of the year, while Rises  is just a completely different story.

As for The Amazing Spider-Man, it was a certain middle point. It was darker then the Sam Raimi's Spiderman movies (and much less cheesier, which I enyoyed) and also funnier in a less cheesy way, but still not as dark as the Batman films. Which completely suited Spiderman and I liked that, but it was simply too similar to the 2002 Spiderman movie. We'll just have to wait and see, what happens, when the studio gives Marc Webb a bit more creative freedom. So this all is just my objective standard and I don't want it to be taken as a fanboy battle. I'm sure most of the critics and movie-fans would agree with me. Just for fun, I also asked myself, who would win if all the characters from each film would take on each other in a fight? Spiderman would come short again, as it only has Spiderman, The Lizard and a few cops, while it would have been a huge tie between the other two: Rises has Batman, a shitload of cops and Bane's army with Batman's arsenal, while The Avengers have... well, the Avengers, the army, cops, Loky's army...oh, and A HULK.


So what did you think of this year's clash of the superhero summer blockbusters? Did you predict the box office outcome? Which one do you think is the best (objectively)? Comment below, let me know!