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Comic book movies are the greatest gift Hollywood has ever given unto mankind, and I'll tell you why, because if I didn't, that statement would just hang there like a flaccid, weird penis on a fence post, all inexplicable and unusual and in need of justification. Beyond comic book geek culture, beyond the various subgroups of nerds who enjoy stories of men made of iron and spiders, a comic book movie represents how much we truly, as a people, value imagination.

The Avengers grossed exactly all the money ever. Even if you don't like the movie (which only means that you're a bad person and slightly dirty in the soul), it represents so much -- wonder and spectacle and fantasy. Those are great things. As great as boobs or gravy or boobs with gravy on them (in a way that is somehow less gross than what you're imagining).

While the latest crop of movies is generally enjoying a lot of positive buzz, there was also a time when comic book movies were all Daredevils and Spider-Man 3s, and the very act of watching them made your butthole clench and sputter like an angry old person viewing young people on the lawn. And the Internet, since that time, has made much of the "best" movies and the "worst" movies, all the while overlooking one key group of comic book films: the best worst movies. Good thing I wrote this article to fix that shit.