The Best Performances in DC Movies

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When people say they love superhero movies, what they really mean is they love the people in superhero movies. Yes, the special effects and the powers and colorful costumes and the blue lasers in the sky are fun. But all the blue lasers in the sky are meaningless if you don’t care about the people punching those blue lasers. (That’s how you beat a blue laser, right? You punch it? Can you believe I didn’t take a single science class in college? Liberal arts, baby!)

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Obviously those people are a combination of creative elements; the script, the director, and decades of comic-book lore. But the most important contribution comes from the actors and actress themselves, the ones who take that mythology and that screenplay and those directions and distill them intoan unforgettableonscreen performance.

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Today we’re honoring the best ofthose actors with a list of finest performances from the history of DC Comics movies. They range from scene-stealing supporting turns to critically acclaimed leading roles. They’re mostly live-action, but there are a couplevoiceperformances as well, because some of the best theatrical DC adaptationsover the last 40 years are animated. Some go back decades to the early days of the superhero movie boom others are very recentand hail from the new DC Universe.One or two actors have even won Academy Awards in DC films.

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Without further ado, here are the 12 best performances in DC Comics movies…

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Batmen, Jokers, Men of Steel and everyone in between — here are the best performances ever in DC Comics movies.

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Yeayuhh! Earthy Jason Momoa was a left-field choice to play Aquaman, a DC hero typically portrayed in comics as a regal lord of the depths. But you know what? Left-field choices are sometimes the best choices. Momoa and director James Wan (not to mention Zack Snyder) zoned in on the kind of Aquaman Momoa would be a good fit for: A kind of pirate hooligan warrior, one who’d save some whales from an oil spill and then maybe spill some Jagermeister at the whale-rescue afterparty. In the DC Extended Universe, where things were awfully angsty, Momoa brought some much needed comic relief along with his muscular presence. Now it’s hard to imagine an Aquaman who doesn’t howl for joy when he leaps into battle.

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READ MORE: Our Review of James Gunn’sSuperman

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The Man of Steel. The Man of Tomorrow. Truth. Justice. The American Way. We ranked every Superman movie ever made.

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Oy. Justice League should have been the grand conclusion to a series of interlocking stories. Instead, it was the moment a once-promising cinematic universe hit rock bottom. Director Zack Snyder left the project in the middle of shooting for personal reasons, Joss Whedon took over, and the result doesn’t feel like something either one of them would have made.

The editing is sloppy, the tone is a mess, and the big villain is a generic CGI goober with zero personality or motivation. (Would you believe he wants to conquer the world? Because he does!) While Snyder’s preferred cut now exists on streaming, the original version of Justice League remains the weakest Superman movie ever made.

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