Actually, YES... I would love to see the bank robery sequence from Dark Knight Returns with batman smashing average thugs. The first spiderman had a deleted sequence of Spidey busting a robery and busting the getaway helicopter in this huge spider web in between the Trade Centers. It was just awesome. Actually now that I think, Spiderman movies are the only ones where the villains get lose to a accomplishable personal goal but are defeated by insanity instead of stupidity. I love villans, I just want some half decent plot that can actually work.
And as far as I'm concerned, this new Superman movie is pretty much your superhero period drama...
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first superman movie has supes catching thugs in the beginning.
Batman begins has him beating up standard thugs, and ras al gul describes your personal goal/defeated by insanity bit.
X-men 2 has the same type of villain with striker.
Batman also has bts beating up regular thugs.
daredevil has him beating up average thugs, and kingpin describes the same type of villain.
frankly, watching some super powered being beat up on low level thugs is amusing but hardly worth two hours of my life and ten dollars... this is the basic steven segal formula... look at me, I viciously beat the snot out of yokels, again and again, watch my frilly leather jacket twirl in the wind.