Changes in windows

Introduction Windows 10 finally arrived late last month, so we thought it would be a good time to take a trip down memory lane to check out those sepia-tinged boot screens of the past 30 odd years. The boot screen is the first thing you see when it comes to any new operating system, and as such is one of the best ways to have a glance back at all the different versions of Windows that have been released. It's true enough that Windows boot screens aren't exactly a scientific representation of the performance of each version of Windows, but the sea changes in the move to Windows 95 and then to XP are clear, while Vista's blank space probably said more than we ever knew at the time about how the OS would be received. Anyway, on with the (slide)show! Also check out: 20 smart new and improved features in Windows 10 Windows 1.0 From 20 November 1985, here's the first Windows boot screen featuring the old Microsoft logo preceding the operating system that began to change everything for PC users across the world. Key fact: you couldn't overlap windows in this version - they were all tiled. Interestingly, Microsoft still supported Windows 1.0 until the end of December 2001. Seriously. Windows 2.1 While an earlier version (2.03) emerged in 1987, it wasn't until 1988 that Windows 2.1 properly arrived, in the form of the 286 and 386 versions. The not-so-different boot screen also featured the new Microsoft logo. The first versions of Word and Excel ran on Windows 2.0. By now you could even begin to overlap those windows, which was a much needed addition following the lack of overlapping in Windows 1.0. Windows 3.0 Into the nineties and Windows 3.0 shows plenty of signs of graphical improvement - indeed the graphics were much improved from 2.x. As you can see, the familiar Microsoft logo has finally landed inside Windows and there are now three colours. They are dull but three is better than two, we're sure. The MS-DOS Executive file manager was replaced with the Program Manager (which remained a feature of Windows 3.1) and this is widely regarded as the first version of Windows that began to seriously threaten Apple's Macintosh OS. Windows 3.1 The first version to include Minesweeper, Windows 3.1 (codenamed Janus) was released in 1992 and contained advanced personalisation plus it featured 32-bit disk access. It also introduced the Windows flag to the boot screen for the first time and yet more colours - even if the teal background did clash with the other colours just a little bit. As for the OS, it brought TrueType fonts to the desktop for the first time and later updates to the OS even allowed for media to be viewed from CD-ROMs. Flashy! Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Windows for Workgroups saw the light of day in October 1992 and featured native network support and sharing. It was essential for businesses back in the early nineties. We don't know about you, but these boot screens almost look like a step back from Windows 3.0! This version of Windows survived for a lot longer than many with OEM licensing for Windows for Workgroups 3.11 sticking around until late 2008. Windows 95 Introducing the clouds! Windows 95 was a great leap forward in terms of productivity and introduced THE INTERNET, albeit in limited fashion. It was seriously better looking than earlier versions of Windows and was seriously successful as a result. It laid the graphical foundations (if not the codebase) for the Windows we still use today. Windows 95 was truly groundbreaking in even more ways than that, too.The Start menu that is so central to Windows 10 started life in Windows 95 and so did the taskbar that has dominated almost every version of Windows since. Windows NT 1996's Windows NT became a staple of companies worldwide (in fact, we saw a PC running it in a major PC company only the other day) until it was replaced by the mighty Windows 2000. From memory, it really wasn't that stable, at least not in the office where we used to do a Saturday job. Windows 98 June 1998 saw the release of Windows 98, an OS with a surprising number of users even today. Continuing the clouds theme from Windows 95, Windows 98 introduced improved USB support through the 1999 Second Edition, and ushered in the Windows Driver Model. Mainstream support for Windows 98 ended as early as June 2002 and meant that the lifecycle of this OS was an incredibly short one when you consider how long Windows XP maintained its presence on PCs around the world. Windows 2000 Truly a version of Windows to look back on with fondness. Like NT, Windows 2000 has a long industrial legacy. Though you'll find Windows XP running most businesses today, Windows 2000 is still used widely. Windows ME So you thought Windows Vista filled you with hate? You obviously didn't use Windows ME, a cheesily-named dog of an operating system that emerged in 2000. It included several improvements from Windows 2000 but otherwise it was rubbish - like its boot screen. HATE, HATE, HATE. Windows XP 2001's Windows XP (codenamed Whistler) brought improved security and robustness by moving across to the NT codebase, incorporating huge driver support and releasing both Home and Professional editions. In 2006, IDC believed there were over 400 million copies in use. Extended support for Windows XP ceased on its end of life date of April 8, 2014, yet many large organisations and governments continue to use XP even though the support costs are exorbitantly high. The big test will be trying to get them to move from XP to Windows 10 and only time will tell how successful that venture is. Windows Vista Yeah, it's interesting isn't it? Goodness knows what Microsoft was thinking, but it only succeeded in making this crap-looking and basic screen. It probably wanted to save on boot-up time or something. Windows 7 Windows 7 introduced this animation, which appears before the log-in screen, but once again there's no boot screen in the traditional sense. But it does look really quite nice, as does Windows 7 itself - see what we thought of it. Most of the migration to Windows 10 is likely to come from Windows 7 due to the fact it was favoured over Windows 8 because of the presence of a Start menu and a lot more besides. Windows 8/8.1 The oft-criticised Windows 8 didn't make any leaps and bounds in the boot screen department and stuck with the black background plus logo format that has become the standard for Windows. One change was the Windows logo itself taking on an angular look and switching to the familiar light-ish blue hue that Windows was known for, for a while. Some PC manufacturers also chose to change up the boot screen ever so slightly to fit in with their own branding thus opening up the door for Windows modifiers to create their very own boot screens. When it came to Windows 8, the boot screen was quite possibly more exciting than the OS itself. Windows 8.1, the OS that was pushed out to save Windows 8's bacon, had an identical boot screen and the changes it brought came inside the OS itself. Windows 10 Windows 10 is as dramatic an overhaul as any Microsoft has ever delivered to an OS. Sadly the same cannot be said for the boot screen, which will make you think that you've not even installed a new OS. Of course there's plenty of other stuff inside Windows 10 to get you excited such as the full return of the Start menu, it's just the first impressions of the OS that leave a lot to be desired. A bit like a Skoda. Probably. Also check out our full Windows 10 review http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techradar/allnews/~3/JSr8AgQzzSs/story01.htm

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Windows 95 is twenty today. It's hard to imagine it now, but the launch was greeted with the sort of hype that only Apple generates today: the Empire State Building lit in Windows colours, midnight queues outside PC shops, wall-to-wall news coverage and that Rolling Stones riff. To some, the arrival of Windows 95 heralded a brave new world of personal computing; to others, it was the beginning of a long period of stagnation for the PC platform. There's no doubt that if you were running Windows 3.1 or 3.11, Windows 95 was like a visitor from the planet Groovy. No, really. It looked great, and provided you treated the system requirements - a 386 with 4MB of RAM and 120MB of disk space - with the contempt they deserved then it ran great too. Windows retrospective: boot screens through the ages Heavily targeted towards home users as well as the more traditional corporate users, it was the first stand-alone Windows (MS-DOS was part of it rather than a separate OS). It had an exciting new interface that's still visible in Windows 7, and it even had Microsoft's first go at a Web browser - albeit one that was initially tucked away on the optional-extra Plus pack. The beginning of the big boots Critics, however, would argue that Windows 95 was when Microsoft started throwing its weight around. They argue that by bundling MS-DOS inside Windows, Microsoft killed the market for MS-DOS rivals; the arrival of Internet Explorer would become the Netscape-crushing browser war; and the US Department of Justice found that it used the "Windows Tax" - that is, offering manufacturers discounted prices if they promised to limit the number of non-Windows PCs they sold - to stifle competition. In 1998 consumer advocate Ralph Nader wrote a devastating critique that accused Microsoft of "suffocating" the PC industry and argued that "the victims of Microsoft's monopolistic activities aren't just the companies that go belly-up; they are the consumers who pay high prices to use mediocre and unreliable products." It's bleakly amusing to note that when the (then) Microsoft-owned Slate magazine responded to Nader, it argued that "in the browser wars, Microsoft faces a formidable array of opponents--Sun and Oracle, to name just two--and, after two years, it still lags behind Netscape even though IE generally gets better reviews than Navigator." A force for good Let's concentrate on the product itself, though, because when you do that Windows 95 was clearly a force for good too. It was a vast improvement over its predecessors. It revolutionised PC gaming. It made using computers - computers that we could actually afford to build or buy - much easier than before. You may mock its primitive graphics (its press-Start-to-stop interface, its increasingly demented product names - Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2, anyone? - and its postie-crippling pile of installation floppies) but twenty years ago, Windows 95 was as cool as computing got. Microsoft may never be as cool again as it was back then and while Android and iOS now dominate the OS landscape, Windows 95 was the milestone that saw Microsoft become a true technology giant. Check out our Windows 10 review http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techradar/allnews/~3/h0jXyqjSlrM/story01.htm

Windows office 2016

Introduction, interface and collaboration Microsoft Office may have started life on the Mac before it ever came to Windows, but for many Mac users it feels like that was the last time we ever had anything 'Officey' before our Windows-using brethren. This release of Office, then, is mostly about closing the gap with Office 2013 for Windows, in terms not only of feature parity and document compatibility but also by harmonising the interface across Mac, Windows and mobile – a boon to productivity if you regularly work across different platforms. It mostly, if not entirely, succeeds in this, and moreover it looks and feels like a contemporary Mac citizen – although Office 2011 (the previous Mac version) supported Retina displays, it had started to look very old fashioned as the OS X aesthetic moved on. Modern Mac However, while Microsoft has finally embraced some modern Mac developments – multi-touch gestures for zooming and panning, native full-screen – there are more which it hasn't bothered with. Predictably, for example, there's no iCloud Drive integration. This isn't a show-stopper since Microsoft's own OneDrive cloud storage provides some if not all of the benefits of iCloud Drive – notably, files don't appear in the Finder as usual unless you install the OneDrive app, and the open/save dialog is a bit inelegant, which could be irritating depending on your workflows. OS X's versioning – specifically – isn't supported either; there is versioning available through OneDrive, but it's clunkier. And perhaps most egregiously, despite close parity between the iOS apps and new Mac Office apps – and despite OneDrive already being baked into both to handle the back-end – there's no support for Handoff between desktop and mobile. That's hardly calamitous, and it may be coming in an update, but it's frustrating to see Microsoft still dragging its heels over implementing exciting new capabilities of the Apple world. Aesthetic appeal Overall, Office 2016 still feels a little siloed from the broader Mac world – using its own dictionaries rather than OS X's, say – an approach which is neither empirically good or bad, but the appeal of which depends on whether you're invested more in the Mac or Office ecosystems. Even if nothing else, though, Office 2016 looks fantastic – simultaneously familiar to users on Windows but also thoroughly Mac in terms of the visuals – and the optional coloured title bars help orientate you in the suite's apps. The redesigned Ribbon menu groups tasks logically and in the same way as the Windows version, and though there is still sometimes a confusing proliferation of ways to achieve the same things, most would agree it's a good solution to making Office's complexity more palatable and generally usable. Windows compatibility and collaboration Windows compatibility for documents has been significantly improved, with more Excel functions and PowerPoint transitions making it to the Mac version from Windows, but be warned that, bafflingly, there are still disparities. Likewise, with questionable benefit, some Windows-style shortcuts – Ctrl-S as well as Cmd-S, say – work in Office for Mac now, but some don't. Microsoft touts its new Task Pane, but honestly it's done little more than dock the floating Toolbox from earlier versions – fine, but not worth so much hype. Collaboration and co-authoring tools are welcome, though they're sub-par compared to the office suites from Google and even Apple – when working together on a Word document, say, both parties have to save their changes before they appear on the other's screen. It's not live, as with its competitors, though the new threaded comments feature is great. It's not consistent, either – OneNote collaborative changes are live, and although you can share Excel documents, only one person can work on the file at once. Note, finally, that at the moment you can only get Office for the Mac as part of Microsoft's Office 365 subscription package. Redmond isn't saying why, but one interpretation is that it's keen to sign as many people up to Office 365 as it can. A standalone, subscription-free version will be available in September. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote Okay, so let's look at the separate Office applications and what changes have been made to them in detail. Word Word hasn't received many specific improvements other than the general ones described on the previous page, and indeed the useful audio-recording, time-stamping notebook view in Office 2011 has actually gone. (It's okay; that feature is still available, just in OneNote now.) One addition we will note – as well as a commendable reorganisation of relevant commands under the new Design tab – is Smart Lookup, which pops up not just dictionary and thesaurus entries for selected words in the Task Pane, but also Bing-powered internet searches too. Again, this is not dramatically different to 2011's feature, but just bolted into a pane rather than a floating window. Excel Sensibly, given that most regular users will be more than ably served by Numbers on a Mac, Microsoft has focused on adding high-level, pro features to Excel 2016. As well as the new PivotTable Slicers – to help sift through vast swathes of data – there's an optional Analysis Toolpak add-on to aid complex engineering and statistical analysis. The equations editor and formula builder are easier to use – logical grouping makes it easier for pros to find what they want than with Numbers, as well – and improved autocomplete plus the new feature that recommends the best charts and PivotTables for whatever you're doing make Excel feel like a significant upgrade. Note, however, that although compatibility with functions created in Office 2013 on Windows has been boosted, not all are supported, which means that despite Microsoft's efforts to appeal to the power user with this update, there is still friction in mixed platform environments. Most users will likely never do anything sufficiently advanced to run into this problem, but it's infuriating that differences exist at all today. PowerPoint As well as modernising the interface, the revamped PowerPoint also includes new presentation templates which do look fresher and less comically corporate. What's more, each of the 23 designs all also have variants, which combined with the colour themes actually means there's a commendable, harmonious range of options. Most welcome are the improvements to Presenter View, which shows you notes, next slide, and so on, on your laptop screen while a connected projector just shows the presentation – and notably the button that lets you quickly swap displays. There's a lot of power in PowerPoint – with myriad options for formatting and editing pictures, even if we miss Keynote's handy Instant Alpha tool – and it's no longer the clunky, media-unfriendly dog it used to be. There are reasons to use it over Keynote even if corporate best practice (where the new threaded comments are hugely useful) doesn't mandate it – such as the terrifically handy 3D view of all slide elements which makes it easy to reorder things. But if you're a regular user, Keynote's speed, polish and robustness, not to mention the fact that it lets you export presentations to movies, a 2011 feature now missing in 2016, makes it the stronger choice for many. Outlook For the majority of Mac users, Mail, Contacts and Calendar are the natural choices – not least because in this increasingly ecosystem-dominated world, they are tightly integrated into iOS and watchOS – and so while Outlook on the Mac isn't a bad application by any measure, for home and small office users it's the least necessary app in the suite. There are some very welcome improvements: An option to propose a new time when declining a meeting; side-by-side calendars; weather forecasts in the calendar; syncing of categories; smarter email threading (rather than just thinking all emails with the same subject line are related); and our favourite, the option of defining different signatures for new messages as for replies. However, despite all this most non-corporate Mac users will struggle to think of compelling enough reasons to switch. While we love the longstanding feature which lets you create an event based off and linked to an email, there's no link with OneNote (as on Windows), and inexplicably you have no access to OneDrive from the attach menu when composing an email. Since OneDrive, unlike iCloud Drive, doesn't by default cache files to a user-exposed directory on the hard disk, this means you can't attach files stored in OneDrive to an existing email unless you install the OneDrive app. OneNote This is a new member of the Office suite on the Mac, though it's existed on iOS and standalone for the Mac on the App Store before now, and it's a genuinely great freeform note-taking tool. It's where you'll find the old Word feature of recording audio as you type notes – with timestamps, so you can click next to a note and hear the audio from when you wrote it – and notes support a broad range of media types. If you're already a heavy Evernote user, OneNote has little to offer you, and the beefed-up Notes app coming in OS X 10.11 El Capitan will suffice for many, but if you're already deep into the Office way of doing things or don't currently use a notebook app, OneNote is excellent. Just note that if that's all you want, you don't need the full Office suite – you can get it free for Mac and iOS. Verdict On Windows, if you want a competent office suite, you buy Microsoft Office; you just do. (As with the Mac, some very good web and open source alternatives exist, but unless you take an ideological position or are on a very tight budget, Microsoft Office is worth the investment for your sanity alone.) On the Mac, though, things are very different, thanks largely to the ubiquity and strength of Apple's iWork suite. But while it's great to see a modern, improvement-packed version of Office for the Mac, it's sometimes wearisome that Microsoft's suite which started life on this platform still doesn't feel entirely native to it. The long period since the last version has allowed competitors to build compelling alternatives, and has also let many consumers discover them. We liked Office 2016 for Mac feels modern again, and this shouldn't be underestimated; it's once again pleasant to use Office apps on a modern Mac system. Cross-platform compatibility and feature parity – which means iOS and Android now, as well as Windows – is improved, though still, maddeningly enough, imperfect. Although in general specific apps have received comparatively minor feature upgrades, the addition of strong, pro-level features to Excel will mean anyone who wants to do some advanced data analysis, but who equally doesn't want to use a hardware or virtualised PC, now probably can. We disliked Though some of our complaints about Office are directed at the suite itself – the extent to which it doesn't integrate more broadly with the Mac ecosystem, its ignorance of exciting Apple technologies such as Handoff, and collaboration tools which are weak next to those from Google and even Apple – the broader point is that many will find it hard to care. Not only is the iWork suite available and very good, many Mac users will have it already or can get it for free. That said, if your life regularly involves swapping office documents with the outside world, the hassle of round-tripping with import/export – not to mention the potential for translation errors – often means that relying on iWork is a bad idea, and there may be Office-specific features you need. Excel in particular is far more capable for hardcore spreadsheeting – even if Numbers represents what most people actually do with spreadsheets. Final verdict Taken in the abstract, this is a superb office suite, and we welcome what's happened on and under the surface – even if some of the areas for further improvement are glaringly obvious. But on the Mac, where iWork is effectively free for many, and in a world where Google's web apps do collaborative working better, it's harder than ever to justify. Enterprise and education users big and small will be grateful for Microsoft's updated suite since it will help managed systems work more smoothly in mixed platform environments, but consumers should try it first to see if it brings any tangible benefits – and to ensure it hasn't ditched features they rely on. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techradar/allnews/~3/A28z5lywKtE/story01.htm

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The 15 best superhero films of all time Here are techradar, we love our superhero movies. When you look over the evolution of the superhero genre, from the first major Hollywood superhero film, Superman, to the multiplex-dominating films of today, like Avengers: Age of Ultron and the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, it's easy to see just how far comic book movies have come. Superhero movies are not only extremely popular, they're also some of the most technologically advanced movies of our generation. In celebration of the genre, we've decided to list the best 15 superhero films of all time. We think these films encapsulate much of what the superhero genre has to offer, from the big budget blockbusters starring well-known characters to the small indie films which take the concept of superheroism and approach it with a unique outlook. 1. The Avengers Seen by many as the culmination of the entire superhero movie genre, Marvel's The Avengers brought together several characters from their own franchises to create a team-based mega-franchise. While superhero team-ups have been happening in comic books for decades, The Avengers proved to be first real time that the notion would be properly realised on film, allowing audiences to buy into all of Marvel's movies as an overall cinematic universe. The Avengers went on to become the highest-grossing superhero film ever made, and the fourth highest-grossing film of all time overall, inspiring all of the other major film studios to start coming up with their own cinematic universes. Without The Avengers, we wouldn't have DC Universe movies like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League and Suicide Squad to look forward to. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOrNdBpGMv8 2. The Dark Knight A major turning point for the genre, The Dark Knight saw the concept of a superhero film grow up significantly, with director Christopher Nolan approaching the material like a genuine crime film in the vein of Michael Mann. Gone were the days of cartoonish villains in a fantastical setting – Gotham City finally felt like a real place that was being held under a veil of terror by a genuinely frightening psychopath. Which brings us to Heath Ledger's Oscar-winning performance (yes, this is a superhero movie that received an Academy Award for acting) as The Joker. Easily one of the most memorable performances of the last decade from any movie, the character instantly became one of the greatest villains in cinema history, cementing Ledger's legacy after his untimely death shortly after completing his work on the film. Jared Leto sure has some big shoes to fill when he takes up the role in the upcoming film, Suicide Squad. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXeTwQWrcwY 3. Iron Man It's hard to believe now, but the prospect of an Iron Man movie was initially considered to be far from a sure thing. Iron Man had been unable to get off the ground in Hollywood for a long time, with Tom Cruise at one point attached to play Tony Stark in what would have been a very different take on the character. It would eventually take comedic actor/director Jon Favreau to bring Iron Man to cinematic life, with a fresh and unique approach that would see Tony Stark become the charming and hilarious lothario we know and love today. We can also thank Favreau for the inspired decision to cast Robert Downey Jr, an actor once considered to be box office poison, in the role of a lifetime. Iron Man was an enormous success, officially kicking off the Marvel Cinematic Universe and cementing Downey Jr as one of the highest paid actors of all time. The rest is history. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hYlB38asDY 4. Guardians of the Galaxy Leave it to Marvel Studios to take Guardians of the Galaxy, which is one of its most obscure superhero properties, and spin it into box office gold. Director James Gunn infused this space opera with a colorful, punk-rock attitude, making audiences totally buy into (and eventually love) a superhero team consisting of a talking raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper) and a monosyllabic tree-person (voiced by Vin Diesel). But of all the film's casting choices, it would be Chris Pratt (most famous for his role as the endearing nitwit Andy on Parks and Recreation) that would prove to be film's biggest asset. Pratt brought an infectious sense of swagger and likeability to the character of Peter Quill (a.k.a Star Lord) that made him an instant star, landing him the lead role in colossal hit, Jurassic World. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d96cjJhvlMA 5. Captain America: The Winter Soldier In the same year that brought us Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel Studios also redefined what a superhero movie could be with Captain America: The Winter Soldier. This sequel could not be further from its WWII-set predecessor, placing Captain America (Chris Evans) in a modern day setting, entangled in a paranoid spy-thriller plot that would see him re-evaluate his allegiances to S.H.I.E.L.D. and go head-to-head against an old friend. Marvel Studios was clearly pleased with how the film turned out, handing its directors The Russo Brothers the keys to its enormous-sounding sequel, Captain America: Civil War, as well as the next two Avengers films. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SlILk2WMTI 6. Batman Begins The importance of Batman Begins cannot be understated, as it is the bat-film that put director Christopher Nolan on the path of creating one of the genre's greatest achievements, The Dark Knight. Nolan did the unthinkable – he rescued Batman from rubber nipple oblivion. A more serious, adult approach, coupled with a great leading man choice in Christian Bale, helped re-establish Batman as the coolest superhero of all time. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neY2xVmOfUM 7. Spider-Man 2 One of the greatest superhero movie sequels ever made, Spider-Man 2 took everything audiences loved about the first Spider-Man movie and amped it all up significantly. Director Sam Raimi dialed up his trademark zany energy and delivered a follow-up with more drama, bigger stakes, and incredible action. Spidey's battle with Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina) atop a New York subway train showed us how huge and awesome a superhero battle can be, easily topping anything that occurred in the original film. Easily superior to either of the films from the already abandoned reboot series, Spider-Man 2 is a true classic of the genre. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enmFqm_N_ZE 8. The Incredibles Pixar's only superhero film to date (a sequel is on the way), The Incredibles is a fantastic movie that makes us wish there were more computer animated entries in the genre (Big Hero 6 is also wonderful). Directed by Brad Bird (who would go on to make Ratatouille and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol), this breezy flick features a loveable family of powered people who are struggling to keep up appearances as a normal family, while keeping their powers under wraps. Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) is drawn back to his superheroing ways, eventually dragging his whole family back with him. Feeling like James Bond meets Fantastic Four, The Incredibles is... well, incredible. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYYt3nOrSkY 9. Super Before he made Guardians of the Galaxy, director James Gunn made the low-budget indie superhero flick, Super. Playing like a darkly funny comic book take on Taxi Driver, Super is about a sad sack loser (played by Rainn Wilson) who turns to crime-fighting after his wife (played by Liv Tyler) leaves him for a total scumbag (played by Kevin Bacon). He develops a superhero persona known as the Crimson Bolt, who runs around violently cracking criminals (and jerks in general) on the head with a pipe wrench while yelling his catchphrase, "Shut up, crime!" Similar in theme to the film Kick-Ass (only way darker), Super is recommended viewing for anyone who loves the superhero films. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLj_Bzw8n90 10. Unbreakable Possibly M. Night Shyamalan's best film, Unbreakable sees David Dunn (Bruce Willis) slowly come to the realisation that he was born to be an invincible superhero. After coming away from an enormous train derailment as the sole survivor (with nary a scratch on him), David is contacted out of the blue by comic book aficionado Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), whose wild theory about David and his powers sets him on a path of discovery. Expertly crafted with a cracker of an ending, Unbreakable is the kind of superhero movie we want to see more of. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfkoFvARU6E 11. Kick-Ass Kick-Ass is a superhero film that asks the following question: what would it actually be like to dress up in a costume and fight crime? That's exactly what high school kid Dave Lizewski (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) attempts to do – only to get stabbed on his first attempt. Okay, so maybe he'll need a bit of help from Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and his pint-sized, potty-mouthed daughter, Hit-Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) – a pair of bad-ass vigilante killers on a quest to rid the city of its mob infestation. Hilariously profane and wickedly violent, Kick-Ass really does kick ass. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YqLOoxsMwc 12. Watchmen Long thought to be impossible to adapt for the screen, Alan Moore's classic superhero graphic novel Watchmen has nevertheless had its share of attempts by many different directors, including Terry Gilliam and Paul Greengrass. However, it was Zack Snyder, fresh from his successful adaptation of Frank Miller's 300 comic book, who would eventually get the movie made. While his adaptation is seen by many as a surface-level reading of Moore's groundbreaking book, it is perhaps the best live-action version of Watchmen we could've ever hoped for, outside of a television miniseries. Its powerful imagery and terrific performances make it a one-of-a-kind superhero movie experience worth savouring. Oh, and it has the best opening credits of any comic book film we can think of. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUjMO_k9IF8 13. X-Men 2 Director Bryan Singer is arguably responsible for bringing superhero films back into fashion with the first X-Men movie, so you can imagine how much pressure would've been placed on his shoulders to not screw up its sequel. Thankfully, X-Men 2 wiped the floor with its already excellent predecessor, greatly expanding its scope, drama and action. The film's opening sequence, which features a mind-controlled Nightcrawler (Alan Cummings) teleporting around the Oval Office and attacking the President of the United States is a particular highlight. Too bad its sequel, X-Men: The Last Stand, sucked royally. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF9FW5_yDxs 14. Superman It's the superhero movie that started it all – Richard Donner's Superman made audiences believe that a man could fly. The late Christopher Reeve was perfectly cast as the man of steel, effortlessly convincing as both Clark Kent and Kal-El. Featuring memorable performances by Marlon Brando as Superman's dad, Jor-El, Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor and Margot Kidder as Lois Lane, Superman was a tremendous success which spawned three sequels and which paved the way for Hollywood's current obsession with superhero movies. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grO4OcJ6cgY 15. Batman Tim Burton took the world by storm with his hugely successful Batman film, which had been the first film adaptation of the character since the swinging sixties era of Adam West. Back in 1989, the film acted as a revitalisation of a flagging genre, rescuing superhero movies from the stagnation caused by the abysmal Superman IV: The Quest for Peace – made only two years prior. Burton applied his trademark dark and twisted visuals to the property, changing the way people view Batman forever (no, not the Val Kilmer movie), while Jack Nicholson's scary take on The Joker made an entire generation of children afraid of hand buzzers and chattering teeth. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgC9Q0uhX70TechRadar's Movie Week is our celebration of the art of cinema, and the technology that makes it all possible. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techradar/allnews/~3/NqgjLostFU0/story01.htm

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