While we’re all spending some time away from our friends in our respective quarantines, this is the perfect time to think about friendship and what we gain from it as people. Is it worth investing all that precious time and energy into people that might not give it back? Do we even trust our friends to have our interests at heart at all times?
If these are questions you find yourself asking on a regular basis, I present you a list of some of the greatest movies about friends turning enemies. Maybe you’ll find the answer here. As an added bonus, most of these movies have superheroes in them. Ain’t that grand?
Captain America: Civil War
It’s a superhero movie about superheroes not quite agreeing on what
it means to be a superhero. Turns out that protecting the guy that
killed your friends’ parents, isn’t a very nice thing to do. Yet
ratting out your friend about killing your other friends’ parents
isn’t a good thing to do either. Captain America had no chance of
winning this one.
Unbreakable
One of the last good M. Night Shyamalan movies tells the story of
Bruce Willis being harmless to all forms of injury. After an accident
that leaves him as the only survivor, he runs into Nick Fury who
helps him understand his abilities, only for Bruce Willis to realise
at the end of the movie that Nick Fury was actually Mr. Glass, the
person responsible for the accident Bruce Willis was in.
The Prestige
If you’re into Christopher Nolan movies, this one is worth a watch. The movie tells the story of two friends and magicians, Wolverine and Batman, trying to constantly outstage one another when it comes to performing the best magic trick. Sadly, Wolverine’s wife dies when a trick performed by Batman goes wrong, and the two never see eye to eye ever again.
Watchmen
I mean, I can’t really divulge the details of this one without
spoiling the entire plot, and since there hasn’t been sequels to
this yet, maybe not everyone would know. I mean, you can probably
guess by now that one of the Watchmen doesn’t exactly see eye to
eye with the other ones. I can tell you that much.
X-Men: First Class
If you want to relive how Charles Xavier and Magneto go from being
friends to becoming mortal enemies with a weird sort of mutual
respect towards eachother, this will be the movie for you. It’s a
nice movie about trying to reach the same goal sometimes leading to
different paths in life.
The Social Network
Not only does this movie tell the story of Mark Zuckerberg’s path
to creating Facebook, it also tells the story of his friendship with
second Spider-Man and how it turned sour after Mark got more and more
wealthy and powerful. In fact, Mark Zuckerberg turned so powerful and
evil that later on, he turned into Lex Luthor and got Superman
killed.
Spider-Man 3
In this movie, Spider-Man (the first one, so unrelated to the second one mentioned earlier) loses his friendship with Harry Osborn as the latter discovers that Spider-Man caused his father’s death. I mean, that’s actually a pretty valid reason, when you look at it that way. Maybe Spider-Man was the true villain after all.
