Just woundering what every one thought of this.Their are so many Comic movies out and more are yet to come.WIll it fade or will this last for years to come?
I think it was just a tentative business until X-Men came out and showed the world that superhero movies can be good. That, and comic books have recently become a bit more respectable as an entertainment media. Or so I hear, anyway.
As for the movies making enough money, you can't anticipate how much money your movie would make, thus the fact that X-Men and Spider-Man are the only ones that did make a substantial amount of cash doesn't mean Marvel made a bunch of movies in an attempt to make lots of it. Also, just because you make plans doesn't mean you'll do them. Seems like they've all had plans for so long... but didn't start acting on them until later and all at the same time. Hmm...
They definitely spiked in those years, but I agree that movies like X-Men helped bring them back in this time. Also, the Blade movies, and then the Spiderman movie really opened the floodgates.
I think they'll be a major genre for at least 3-5 more years. If they start to get better, it might make them last even longer.
I think the problem is going to be that guys like Tobey Maguire and other people with lead roles aren't going to be able to play these characters forever. Sure they can be replaced, but we all know how well that worked for the 90's run of Batman.
To answer your question, I think it's both. The industry has become flooded with these movies so much that they will become a new genre. But it has limits, meaning that at best it will come and go according to trends.
I remember reading that the problem with making the Spiderman movie (which they had tried to make for years and years) had to do with who had legal rights to the character or something like that. Apparently it's been a progressive struggle for decades.
I don't think it was just some out of the blue idea at Marvel like "hey, we could put these guys in films and make money off of them". And I also don't think DC just jumped on Marvel's bandwagon. But who knows.
I remember reading in old X men issues about Wolverine and X men movies.That was like 10 years or more ago.I think it realy took a while before any studio was ready to take the risk.
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