Originally Posted By: rex
I thought Batman Begins was the first comic book movie that wasn't a B movie. In my opinion it was the first movie that didn't rely on the comic to be good. You could have gone in there knowing nothing about Batman and enjoy it.

I know enough people who knew nothing about comics other than the names of a big few characters, and are huge fans of films like X-Men, Blade, the 89 Batman film, Spiderman etc

I dont think there have been any comic book films that rely on you knowing anything about the comic books, in fact thats often been what fanboys moan about, the fact that the films are geared to those that dont read comics.