The movies that started the current comic book movie craze

Rating: 10/10 (31 January 2012)

The X-Men and Spider-Man movie series started the ball rolling on comic book movies being mega movie events like they are now. Prior to the 2000's there was comic book movies but they were more of a novelty then legitimate box office threats.
The quality of the overall production of comic book movies is just drastically higher then ever before. You're getting some of the best actors, directors, writers, cinematographers and special effects people participating in the making of these movies now which wasn't always the case when you had Dolph Lundgren starring in The Punisher.
This X-Men movie has a stellar cast with Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellan, Halle Berry, Rebecca Romijn, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin and Bruce Davison.