re: Anybody Else Done With Superhero/Comic Book Movies

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Considering the first true comic book movie was made in 2000 "XMEN" I'm going to say you are a full of crap troll

Blade doesn't count and was made in 98 so even if you did count it you are still full of crap

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Why doesn't Blade count? It was a Marvel Comic Book.

I'm guessing you aren't going to count the 4 batman movies either? or the superman movies? or the swamp thing movies?

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Why doesn't Blade count? It was a Marvel Comic Book.

I'm guessing you aren't going to count the 4 batman movies either? or the superman movies? or the swamp thing movies?

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Or Spawn. Granted its not Marvel or DC but Image Comics is pretty big in its own right.
Judge Dredd no doubt counts as well. Its pretty bad, buts still a comic book movie.
There are comedies too that are debatable. Mystery Men, The Phantom. Or animated series like Batman: The Mask of Phantasm.

If someone hasn't seen Scott Pilgrim because it's a comic book movie, they they are missing out.

I know that reply wasnt to me but kind of was, so just my thoughts...

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You should never write off a whole genre. There are bad comic book movies, there are great ones. same with westerns, or rom-coms, or war films, or whatever. Denying yourself an experience solely because of its genre is such a limiting way to go through life. It's like denying yourself of the full richness of experience, just so you can claim how much cooler and sophisticated you are. I mean, knock yourself out, but you're only hurting yourself.

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I personally haven't written off the genre. Just certain aspects of it. Part of what made me not watch nearly as many is bc of certain characters and being burnt out on them.

(since we're comparing genres) I like a number of Hugh Grant rom-coms, he has done multiple in that genre but he's not the same character and it's not following one giant story arc. I started disliking Tony Starks character in Iron Man 2. I kept pushing and hated Iron Man 3, still I kept going and after watching The Avengers and Civil War, his character became even worse for me, his shtick got old, it was the same in every movie and he was basically the star of a captain america movie and a team of super heroes. So to me, there were almost 5 Iron Man movies. Why would I keep watching something that I haven't liked since the 1st installment?


There might be good and bad westerns, but how many have there even been over the past few years, you can count them on your hand. And ita not like they are the 2nd and 3rd installments and then form some western clan to be all together and have 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th installments of that.

If I had to see Hugh Grants character in Two Weeks Notice three times, and then he combine with Matthew McConaughey character from How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and they do 3 movies together, then yea I might actually get tired of rom-coms.

Then you add to it the reboots. How many have already been rebooted? And how many more are on the way? And it no longer matters now how long its been since it was done, as long as it was halfway bad (sometimes not bad at all), its fair game to reboot. How many other genres do you see doing that? There are reboots out there but nothing on the scale of super hero movies.

There are plenty of fair reasons to not like the where the genre is at right now. I have loved a number of them, and have liked a few recent ones, but im not going to go see them just to go see them because its a super hero movie. If we are saying its like rom-coms, westerns, horrors, why is it wrong to be selective with super hero movies just like I am with other genres?

On a m/tv forum i'll talk about it but I havent tried to persuade any of my friends to dislike them or talk down to someone and make it seem like you dont like good movies bc you like them. Im certainly not doing it to look cool.

I would watch your Matthew mconahey/Hugh grant mashup

That sounds tight

I think being done with a character is a lot different than being done with a genre. Is the Tony Stark arc pretty much complete? Yeah, I'd agree. He's gone from petulant man child to a legit father figure to Peter Parker. Him giving Spidey a hug was really the completion of his arc on an emotional level. He was finally emotionally available for another person. But I'm not arguing you should watch another Iron Man movie.

As for westerns, they've been a surprisingly fertile genre recently. I mean the twin towers of 2007, There Will Be Blood and No Country, sort of dominate the genre recently, but since then, we've had the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, the Revenant, and the Hateful 8. but you also have non-traditional westerns like Logan (look, a superhero film!) and Hell or High Water. It's still a genre full of surprises.

Is it wrong with being selective which movies you watch? Of course not. You can't see everything. But writing off a genre isn't the way to do it.

I could understand the stance if they weren’t legitimately making an effort to put out good movies at the same time.

Curious, what type of films would you have be the summer blockbusters if not these?

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I'll continue to watch every single Marvel movie until they make one that legitimately sucks.

DC will be determined on a case by case basis, but in general, they suck at making enjoyable movies.

I'm extremely hopeful Sony doesn't frick up Venom.

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All THIS!

I bet you listen to bullshite music that no one else listens to. So refined!