MovieAxes

Six sliders. No stars.

No film here is good or bad. It is only like something.

Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.

Brokeback MountainAvengers: Infinity War
  • LightHeavy
    Brokeback Mountain is Clearly heavy; Avengers: Infinity War is Slightly heavy.
  • SimpleComplicated
    Brokeback Mountain is Slightly simple; Avengers: Infinity War is Clearly complicated.
  • SlowFast
    Brokeback Mountain is Clearly slow; Avengers: Infinity War is Clearly fast.
  • RealisticFantastic
    Brokeback Mountain is Strongly realistic; Avengers: Infinity War is Strongly fantastic.
  • IntimateEpic
    Brokeback Mountain is Slightly intimate; Avengers: Infinity War is Strongly epic.
  • PlotCharacter
    Brokeback Mountain is Strongly character-driven; Avengers: Infinity War is Strongly plot-driven.

Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.

26 films tagged superheroes

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  • 2008 · Action

    Batman, a new district attorney and a straight-arrow cop try to break organised crime in Gotham, and a criminal with no name and no plan starts pulling the city apart. Much of it is about what each of them will agree to do.

    • Clearly heavy
    • Clearly epic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Dark Knight

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2019 · Action

    What is left of the Avengers regroups after losing, and goes looking for a way to undo it. Three hours long, with a huge cast, and it assumes you have seen a good many of the films before it.

    • Strongly epic
    • Strongly fantastic
    • Clearly plot-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Avengers: Endgame

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2018 · Action

    A warlord crosses the galaxy collecting six stones that would let him do anything he likes with the universe, and every hero on the board tries to stop him. It cuts between half a dozen groups on different planets.

    • Strongly epic
    • Strongly fantastic
    • Strongly plot-driven
    • Clearly fast

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Avengers: Infinity War

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2005 · Action

    A billionaire's son leaves Gotham after his parents are killed and spends years abroad learning to fight, then comes back to a city run by mobsters. A good half of it is the training and the building of the kit.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Batman Begins

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2014 · Animation

    A teenage robotics whiz in a city that is half San Francisco and half Tokyo teams up with a soft inflatable healthcare robot his brother built. It is bright and fast, with a real sad streak running under the jokes.

    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Big Hero 6

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2018 · Action

    After his father's death, T'Challa comes home to take the throne of Wakanda, an African country hiding technology no one else has, and finds his claim challenged. A superhero film with a lot of family argument and court politics in it.

    • Clearly epic
    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Black Panther

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2014 · Action

    Steve Rogers is working for a spy agency he trusts less every week when an attack from inside it puts him on the run with Black Widow. It plays like a 1970s conspiracy film with fights in it.

    • Strongly fast
    • Clearly plot-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Captain America: The Winter Soldier

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2012 · Science fiction

    Three high-school boys climb down a hole in a field and come out able to move things with their minds, and at first they mostly mess about. Shot as if one of them is filming the whole time.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Chronicle

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2016 · Action

    A mercenary comes out of an experiment with powers he never asked for and goes after the man who did it to him, talking to the audience the whole way. Rude, fast, and joking through the violence.

    • Clearly fast

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Deadpool

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2014 · Action

    A small-time thief picks up a mysterious orb and ends up in an alien prison with a green assassin, a talking raccoon and a tree. Big, loud, colourful, and joking most of the way through.

    • Strongly fantastic
    • Clearly fast
    • Clearly epic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Guardians of the Galaxy

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2008 · Action

    A billionaire who sells weapons is taken prisoner in Afghanistan and builds himself a way out, then keeps building once he gets home. Light on its feet, with as much workshop as fighting.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Iron Man

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2019 · Drama

    A clown-for-hire in a filthy 1980s city looks after his mother, takes seven kinds of pills and wants to do stand-up. The camera never leaves him, and it turns grim very early.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Strongly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Joker

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2010 · Action

    A comic-obsessed teenager buys a wetsuit online and starts patrolling his neighbourhood as a superhero, which goes about as well as you would expect. Very violent, and going for laughs throughout.

    • Clearly fast

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Kick-Ass

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2017 · Action

    An old Wolverine drives a limo near the Mexican border and hides a sick Professor X across it, until a girl with familiar habits needs taking north. A road movie, and much more violent than the ones before.

    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Logan

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2004 · Action

    Two years in, the job is wrecking his grades, his rent and the one relationship he wants, just as a scientist with four mechanical arms starts tearing up New York. Big set pieces built around a fairly sad life.

    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Spider-Man 2

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2023 · Animation

    A teenage Spider-Man from Brooklyn is pulled into a society of hundreds of Spider-people from other worlds, who have rules about how these stories are supposed to go. Loud, fast, packed with detail, and it stops mid-story.

    • Strongly fantastic
    • Strongly fast
    • Clearly epic
    • Clearly complicated

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2018 · Animation

    A Brooklyn teenager gets spider powers and finds himself sharing the city with Spider-People pulled in from other dimensions. It is fast, loud and drawn like a comic book page.

    • Strongly fantastic
    • Strongly fast

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2021 · Action

    With his name public and his life coming apart, Spider-Man asks a wizard for a spell to make everyone forget him, and it goes wrong. Big fights, plenty of jokes, and it leans on the films before it.

    • Strongly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Spider-Man: No Way Home

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2012 · Action

    Six heroes who cannot stand each other are put on the same team because a god from another realm has turned up on Earth with an army. Bright, jokey, and built towards one very long fight.

    • Strongly fantastic
    • Clearly epic
    • Clearly plot-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Avengers

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2022 · Action

    In his second year out at night, Batman follows a killer who leaves riddles addressed to him at every scene, and the trail runs into the city's oldest families. Long, rainy, and closer to a detective film than a superhero one.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Batman

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2004 · Animation

    Superheroes have been banned for years, and a bored insurance clerk who used to be one takes a secret job that pulls his whole family into it. Fast and funny, and half of it is a marriage under strain.

    • Strongly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Incredibles

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2017 · Action

    Thor loses his hammer, lands on a junk planet run by a showman, and has to fight his way off it to get home. Jokes the whole way through, bright colours, and a synthesiser soundtrack.

    • Strongly fantastic
    • Clearly epic
    • Clearly fast

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Thor: Ragnarok

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2000 · Thriller

    A security guard walks away from a train crash without a scratch, and a man who collects comic books tells him what he thinks that means. Slow, grey, and much closer to a drama than to a cape.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Unbreakable

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2009 · Action

    In a 1985 where costumed heroes have been outlawed and the world is close to nuclear war, one of them is thrown out of a window and an old colleague starts asking why. Long, slow and very violent.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Clearly epic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Watchmen

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2017 · Action

    A warrior raised on a hidden island of women pulls a pilot out of the sea, learns there is a world war on, and goes to stop it. Origin story first, then trenches and very big fights.

    • Strongly epic
    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Wonder Woman

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2014 · Action

    With mutants hunted to near extinction in the future, one of them is sent back to 1973 to stop the thing that started it. Two time periods running at once, and a lot of faces from the earlier films.

    • Strongly fantastic
    • Clearly epic
    • Clearly plot-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: X-Men: Days of Future Past

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.