Comic Book Movie Bubble

alastair79

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Quiet afternoon so I started to think of all the comic book movies that I could remember from the year 2000 onwards. Not counting unreleased movies.

After a little while I realised that I was up to 45 movies in 13 years and I’m very sure I’ve missed a lot out (including animated films).

Does anyone think that this bubble is anywhere near ready to burst? I hope not as the films continue to impress and improve but I can’t help but think that general movie going audiences are going to tire sooner rather than later.

Here’s my list just for the hell of it:
X-Men / X-Men 2 / X-men 3: The Last Stand / X-men Origins: Wolverine / The Wolverine / X-men: First Class / Iron Man / Iron Man 2 / Iron Man 3 / Thor / Thor: The Dark Work / Captain America: The First Avenger / Hulk / The Increadible Hulk / The Avengers / Scott Pilgrim vs. the World / Batman Begins / The Dark Knight / The Dark Knight Rises / 30 Days of Night / Ghost Rider / Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengence / Spiderman / Spiderman 2 / Spiderman 3 / The Amazing Spiderman / The Punisher / Man of Steal / Green Lantern / Daredevil / Elektra / Hellboy / Hellboy 2: The Golden Army / Watchmen / Fantastic Four / Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer / The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen / Catwoman / Blade 2 / Blade Trinity / Constantine / Cowboys & Aliens / Dredd / V for Vendetta / 300
 
They need to stop releasing Marvel stuff tbh, Its getting tiresome and judging from the Age of Ultron comic I have little hope for the actual movie.

They need to be picking up new more interesting works like Saga - Jesus the potential for that to become this generations Star Wars is absolutely huge providing it went to the right Studio/director.
 
That's a bit like asking "When are they going to stop making movies out of books" isn't it?
 
alastair79 said:
Does anyone think that this bubble is anywhere near ready to burst? I hope not as the films continue to impress and improve but I can’t help but think that general movie going audiences are going to tire sooner rather than later.
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They release 1 or 2 comic books movies a month it feels like. I have the opposite opinion to you I think they're getting worse. I'm really tired of them all now.

Even now they're talking about rebooting the Batman movies when the last series of them has on just finished! All because DC don't want to miss out on the success Marvel are having.

I wish they would spend more time on each movie and release less of them. They would make less money that way though so it won't happen. :(
 
I'm bored of them because most of them have been crap. Even the best(probably first) Spiderman was absolutely the wrong lead actor, poor script, wrong lead actress, generally poorly done. Iron man is close to good with a fantastic lead but poor script, too much stupidity and too many absolutely horrendously cringe worthy moments in them, coupled with pretty woeful final battles and in general poor big bad guys to go up against.

Batman's are pretty much the best because they didn't try and make them overly kiddy and stupid, didn't try and jam in those moments like Iron man dancing, they aren't as good as they should have been but far above most of the rest.

X-men is borderline, good and bad, none great. Considering the source material, the general theme(super powers, woo) they general stories and stupidity involved has been embarrassing. But the general public lap this **** up no matter how bad it is, Transformers for instance, Hollywood won't tell Michael bay to go **** himself till people start going "this film is crap, I'm actually not going to watch another one of his films".

Hollywood would make better choices, get better writers and cut out most of the crap if the movie going public actually expected more, showed their disappointment, stopped spending to see **** films and showed the studios a drop in profit.
 
alastair79 said:
Here’s my list just for the hell of it:
X-Men / X-Men 2 / X-men 3: The Last Stand / X-men Origins: Wolverine / The Wolverine / X-men: First Class / Iron Man / Iron Man 2 / Iron Man 3 / Thor / Thor: The Dark Work / Captain America: The First Avenger / Hulk / The Increadible Hulk / The Avengers / Scott Pilgrim vs. the World / Batman Begins / The Dark Knight / The Dark Knight Rises / 30 Days of Night / Ghost Rider / Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengence / Spiderman / Spiderman 2 / Spiderman 3 / The Amazing Spiderman / The Punisher / Man of Steal / Green Lantern / Daredevil / Elektra / Hellboy / Hellboy 2: The Golden Army / Watchmen / Fantastic Four / Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer / The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen / Catwoman / Blade 2 / Blade Trinity / Constantine / Cowboys & Aliens / Dredd / V for Vendetta / 300
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In my opinion these are the only decent ones that have been made. Comic book movies are so overdone that they are really, really boring.

I have no interest in the next Avengers or the sequels coming out next year.

Let's have something new Hollywood (lol)
 
drunkenmaster said:
Transformers for instance, Hollywood won't tell Michael bay to go **** himself till people start going "this film is crap, I'm actually not going to watch another one of his films".
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Thing is, people do say that, yet Transformers still makes stupid amounts of money and they keep re-hiring the ******* :D
 
also forgot Punisher: War Zone - which I actually preferred to the one with Thomas Jane.

but I do agree with you.. but it is Hollywood, they'll milk that cash cow for as long as they can
 
As an old boy who used to live & breathe Marvel comics as a kid I am disgusted at the rubbish attempts to capture the comic magic on film.
Unless you actually read Marvel back in the day you won't know just how ****** up there **** poor attempts are. :mad:
 
As a comicbook reader since a very young age I hope they continue to make them for as long as possible. I really cant believe any true fan would be annoyed at what's being released. There was a time we could only dream of seeing the avengers, guardians of the galaxy and many others in a live action adaptation. I hope it carries on for as long as possible!
 
^ But they are not true adaptations at all and in fact sometimes there so off the mark its pretty unbearable. And this is not just because I read the comics its also because each movie feels like a contradiction of the other.
What they did to the Hulk in the Avengers with him suddenly not being able to control his rage, for example was just silly if you read comics, and even more retarded if you watched the Ed Norton Hulk.

Also its all well and good saying your happy the Avengers are on the big screen, but however you look at it its not really the Avengers at all since they don't have the full cast from any Avengers era together, and they fail to even bring up Spiderman (because of movie rights no doubt) who has played a massive role in the Avengers both as a team member and its politics since inception.

They are trying to make this unified world, but every movie feels like a one off where they poorly attempt to link the films together in some weird awkward fashion - ala Iron Man 3.
 
Batman films were great, loved the dark feeling of it all as it should be.

Avengers and first iron man were good, pretty much every other marvel/dc film has been ****.
 
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