James Gunn Ranks His Top 5 Favorite Comic Book Movies

James Gunn has a long history of making superhero movies, but now he is sharing what his own favorite comic book movies are. He ranked these films in a recent video interview with GQ, and his list of movies might surprise you.

The five films (in order) that Gunn lists are Deadpool, Oldboy (which is based on a manga), A History of Violence, Richard Donner’s 1978 film Superman, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

This is a solid list of great movies and it might surprise some of you that there isn’t a single movie from the Marvel Cinematic Universe on his list but he does have a couple of Marvel movies on there! However, I do love that Oldboy and A History of Violence are on his list. Those are both awesomely made films. It also makes me happy to see Superman on the list.

When talking about Oldboy, Gunn said: “It reinvented action and it really ushered in the new era of Korean cinema, which has continued to this day. They still probably make the best action movies in the world. But as a movie, it’s just incredibly cinematic, incredibly colorful, really kind of gross but also beautiful, and shocking at the end.”

Gunn also praised Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, calling it the first true multiverse comic book movie. “I think that, you know, Into the Spider-Verse is truly the first, you know, comic book multiverse movie. They did it in such a balanced and real way. There weren’t a lot of plot holes like there are in a lot of these multiverse movies. They thought everything through and it was just really tight.”

Watch Gunn talk about the these films in the video below: