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4 Super-Power Movies You Must Watch

A lot has been read and said about the latest, most anticipated super-hero movie of the year: "The Dark Knight Rises". And while this post is not a review of the same, I would like to use a few sentences to ponder upon the what made Nolan's take on Batman so endearing to all of us. I believe that Nolan's trilogy is not about the comic book character we know, but it is in fact a dark and gripping drama about a man who took matters in his own hands. It is the humanity and the madness in all of us that these movies glorify and make them different from every other CGI driven super-hero movie we know of. At this note, I want to have the pleasure of sharing with you my top favorite movies of the same kind: movies which are based on similar super-hero like themes, but with a very different aspect to them altogether. My suggestion is, watch them asap:   4. Chronicle: While Chronicle does not deal with super-heroes, it does show you the distance between super-powers and