The Five Best R-Rated Comic Book Movies (Updated 2013)

It was about a year and a half ago when Pete Travis’s Dredd was announced as an R-rated movie, and we thought, “Well, what were some of the best R-rated comic book movies ever made?” We put together a list and, as you’d expect, our readers had quite a bit of feedback for us.Between reader suggestions and the films that have come into play in between, I’d been kicking around the idea of making a new list for a while–but it wasn’t until Kick-Ass 2 debuted in theaters this weekend that I decided it was time to really take another swing at this list.While I still have a soft spot for Ghost World and American Splendor, our readers roundly rejected the idea that they belonged on the list, being that they were such radically different films (small, quiet and with a totally different sensibility) than the bombastic action that fills most of the movies on the list. We’ll have to agree to disagree, but for the purposes of the list, I’ll leave them off.This time.