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Films like League of Gods.

League of Gods (2016) reads as Neutral, breathless, measured action / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Eternal (2011) poster
1. Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Eternal2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bleeding Steel (2017) poster
2. Bleeding Steel2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hulk vs. Thor (2009) poster
3. Hulk vs. Thor2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dragon Wars: D-War (2007) poster
4. Dragon Wars: D-War2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Immortal Demon Slayer (2017) poster
5. Immortal Demon Slayer2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

TEKKEN: Blood Vengeance (2011) poster
6. TEKKEN: Blood Vengeance2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Justice League Dark (2017) poster
7. Justice League Dark2017

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Heavenly Sword (2014) poster
8. Heavenly Sword2014

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Seventh Son (2014) poster
9. Seventh Son2014

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Planet Hulk (2010) poster
10. Planet Hulk2010

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Valhalla (2019) poster
11. Valhalla2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Expelled from Paradise (2014) poster
12. Expelled from Paradise2014

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

These are League of Gods’s neighbours — where are yours?

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