Favorite Series of CBMs?

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Includes Duologies, Trilogies, Quadrilogies, Sagas, etc. You can pick a series of films that technically isn't finished yet. If you have your own "machete order" , you can list that.

Reboots will be considered a separate series from the original series of films.
 
I'm going with The Dark Knight Trilogy. Pretty much by default.

I enjoy all three movies, and it gave Bruce Wayne a compelling storyarc. The supporting cast is great for the most part, and Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are two of the best CBMs ever made.

The First Class movies were shaping up to be second favorite, but then Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix happened.
 
Went with TDK, with Captain America being a close second. Then I would say the Infinity Saga.
 
Infinity Saga.

I'm so grateful I was alive to witness the whole thing.

And to share it with my kids, what an incredible gift.

Infinity War was my favorite but to end it with the victory lap and love letter to the fans with Endgame? Perfection. Easily a top 3 movie going experience along with The Matrix.

Thank you Stan Lee, The Russo's and Kevin Feige (and countless other talented artists). Another classic experience to mark off the bucket list.
 
The TDK trilogy. Great story arc showing the rise, effect, and fall of Batman. Amazing cast. So many epic and memorable scenes peppered throughout the trilogy. Delivered both the greatest CBM with TDK and the greatest CBM villain of all time in Ledger's Joker. I'd also rate Batman Begins the best origin movie for a hero.
 
Definitely the Spider-Man trilogy for me followed by TDK trilogy.
 
The one who recruited me after 20 years saying "Im not a fan of comic books": Infinity Saga.
 
Infinity Saga for me. The X-Men films and Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy showed me that superhero films could be taken seriously, the Dark Knight trilogy showed me how great superhero films could be, but the Infinity Saga showed me how damn near seamlessly the world of the comics could be translated to the screen successfully.

In regards to the poll, isn't the Captain America trilogy being on there redundant since it's part of the Infinity Saga?
 
The Dark Knight trilogy hands down. The Infinity Saga is a close second but that Nolan trilogy has a special place in my heart.
 
Infinity Saga. Got off to a great start with Iron Man and capped it off with a wonderful series finale in Endgame. Embraced the source material like no other option on the list, entering into a state of full comicbooknisity. And it gave an old(ish) man the same joy I experienced as a young kid after pulling a dozen mags off the spinner rack and spreading them out on my bed.

There's some solid work on that list, but in my eyes they all fall Waaaaaaay short of what Feige and company were able to accomplish.
 
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TDK. I loved all three films. Captain America has two films that maybe get to the level of the two lesser TDKT films, but TDK is far better than the The First Avenger which makes even that rather easy.
 
Infinity Saga.
Not all movies are my favorites but overall nothing can gives me more excitement, happiness, joyful feels than what Marvel and Feige brings in the 11 years of building, growing, and taking care of this universe with love and comitment.

Once I complete the 4K Bluray for all Infinity Saga movies, I will plan to rewatch it all again once again from the beginning :)
 
The Infinity Saga. That has done the best job of making comics come alive on the screen, both in terms of embracing the craziness of comics that isn't as common in other media, and in terms of how you tell a story. Comic book films are also clearly the most competitive in the big, blockbuster action genre. Those that strive for other genres tend to be beaten much more by other films of the respective genres.
 
TDKT is still for me the high water mark for cape films. It tells a complete and encapsulated story centered around one flawed yet heroic man and the myth that he made out of himself.

I do want to give a shout-out to the Infinity Saga though. There is a lot to criticize about the MCU and the Marvel Machine as a whole, but it successfully replicated the episodic nature of comic book storytelling, where you spend so much time with the characters that you feel you know them on a deeper level. The payoff of Endgame would not be possible without all the many steps that preceded it, and it is a huge achievement despite some of the films being very forgettable and the overall "house style" aesthetic becoming kind of bland and uniform.
 
Zack's trilogy. As much as I love Superman (1978), the strength of the first does not continue throughout (as we know) and in terms of emotional 'clout' and cinematic 'gain' of purest comic joy of watching and experiencing, nothing else surpasses ZS's 3 films, on this list.

It's quite a close run thing between it and Raimi's Spider-Man & Nolan's TDK but for me, Snyder's films 'speak' to me more than anything else on the list.
 
I'm gonna throw in my vote for the TDK trilogy.

It's still the best as far as I concerned.
 
I definitely favor the Captain America trilogy but TDK isn't far behind.
 
The Infinity Saga stands high above the rest in terms of bringing what's special about superhero comic books to the screen. It's crazy what concepts they brought to the general public and made them accept it when the TDKT couldn't even make a Joker that was consistent with the tone of TDK.
 
The Dark Knight trilogy. The best of the best.
 
It was hard for me to vote. I was torn between the Dark Knight Trilogy or the Snyder DCEU.

Ever since the Snyder Cut of Justice League and my rewatching of MOS, BvS-EC, and the Snyder JL I'm personally blown away by it and hope to see the series continued.

But, Nolans film held it for my vote. While I love various Comic Book franchises (Both Marvel and DC) those two are my top choices.
 
TDK trilogy. TDK is the greatest comic book movie of all time, with a legendary performance from Heath Ledger giving us the best comic book movie villain of all time and one of cinemas most iconic as well. Batman Begins is my favorite origin story superhero film and I think TDKR is still the best 3rd entry in a comic book movie franchise
 

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