Are Too Many Heroes Coming to the Big Screen at Once?

[Something Amyss]

Man of Steel was "critically reviled"? (*cough*)revisionist history(*cough*)

It's more hyperbole, and Bob does it a lot. It really puzzles me that people will come into a Moviebob thread surprised he's being hyperbolic. It's either part of who he is or part of his persona. I don't really know enough about him to know the difference.

It'd be like going into a Zero Punctuation thread and questioning Yahtzee's sarcastic condescension.

 

[sneakypenguin]

I don't see burnout or too many movies atm (heck just look at ever increasing box offices) but there will be a point they will sorta crash(marvel seems to be doing an okay job staving off the sameyness that the genre can have with the more oddball elements GotG) but I just can't see myself remaining interested in superhero movies a whole lot longer and I kinda get that feeling from friends and family. You see a marvel movie it will be good, have a mix of comedy and action, hints at the next movie/references to villians or heros upcoming.

CA2 was great but at the end I was just kinda like meh, I wish I had seen the raid 2, or stayed home and watch GoT. I'm psyched fot GotG but after that meh, days of future past, AS2, avengers 2, antman, all just do not appeal to me for some reason.

To keep me invested more needs to be happening, a major character needs to die, spidey needs to somehow show up for avengers idk just something and faster.

Its why i've enjoyed arrow as a tv show yeah theres filler episodes but there's always a new villian, and hero popping up(while not seeming like they are just throwing things at the wall) or some sort of drama happening.


TLDR version. Sometimes being good isn't enough.

 

[strumbore]

How does MovieBob equate blowing up half of China with reaching out to Chinese audiences? The only reason American action films are set abroad is to exploit fascination with "foreign" lands in American audiences and blow them up. Aliens can't destroy New York every franchise installment and boy what a small world that would be. It's more fun interesting for Americans to watch some weird thing make a mess somewhere else, watch America kick its ass, and assume things got cleaned up 'somehow' after the Heroes all went home and ate some freedom fries (or Shawarma).

 

[Scars Unseen]

How does MovieBob equate blowing up half of China with reaching out to Chinese audiences? The only reason American action films are set abroad is to exploit fascination with "foreign" lands in American audiences and blow them up. Aliens can't destroy New York every franchise installment and boy what a small world that would be. It's more fun to watch some weird thing make a mess somewhere else, watch America kick its ass, and assume things got cleaned up 'somehow' after the Heroes all went home and ate some freedom fries (or Shawarma).

Bombing someone is like reaching out to someone. From a pretty good distance, depending on the delivery method...

 

[Tom_green_day]

Well Sasha Stone seems to be a bit of an arsehole.
OT: If you can't keep up with it do what I do and DON'T.
However if you're a film critic that would probably be a bad work ethic.
I agree that Marvel is being really stupid in the way they're chucking in characters left right and centre that are of huge importance to fans of the comics but mean jack-shit to anyone else. I feel as if I miss any film then I may as well not watch all subsequent ones. So I haven't been. For a while now.

 

[Shuu]

Interesting, but I'm more interested in brand confusion that all these hero flicks could be making. Does somebody not in the know go to see Amazing Spider-Man and wonder why Iron-Man never makes a guest appearance, unaware that they are different studios despite sharing the same comic universe? I still get the occasional person thinking themselves to smart and insightful with their "Why is Batman not in the Avengers? It's obviously a good business decision!"
And of course, if the Amazing Spider-Man absolutely SUCKED (true story) that could turn people off Marvel's next big project if they don't know that ASM had nothing to do with Marvel Studios.

 

[Zombie Badger]

How does MovieBob equate blowing up half of China with reaching out to Chinese audiences? The only reason American action films are set abroad is to exploit fascination with "foreign" lands in American audiences and blow them up. Aliens can't destroy New York every franchise installment and boy what a small world that would be. It's more fun interesting for Americans to watch some weird thing make a mess somewhere else, watch America kick its ass, and assume things got cleaned up 'somehow' after the Heroes all went home and ate some freedom fries (or Shawarma).

Having Aliens invade China is popular for Chinese people for the same reasons that American audiences cheered at the White House exploding in the Independence Day trailer. People like light-hearted large-scale destruction and they like it in places they know.

Bombing someone is like reaching out to someone. From a pretty good distance, depending on the delivery method...

Well, it is the traditional American greeting.

 

[JaceArveduin]

So... Who else actually wants to know how Jack would manage to keep himself alive a few hundred more years and give himself the abilities? Cause he sure as hell ain't gonna be usin smarts to accidentally give himself power armor or superpowers.

 

[Veylon]

So... Who else actually wants to know how Jack would manage to keep himself alive a few hundred more years and give himself the abilities? Cause he sure as hell ain't gonna be usin smarts to accidentally give himself power armor or superpowers.

He can always become the next Davy Jones if I read that power set right. He grows tentacles and becomes the Marvel answer to Aquaman.

 

[JaceArveduin]

So... Who else actually wants to know how Jack would manage to keep himself alive a few hundred more years and give himself the abilities? Cause he sure as hell ain't gonna be usin smarts to accidentally give himself power armor or superpowers.

He can always become the next Davy Jones if I read that power set right. He grows tentacles and becomes the Marvel answer to Aquaman.

I actually ended up "brainstorming" with a friend and came up with a crazy ass idea! I'll spare these poor souls, but I'll go into a bit more detail if you want.

 

[immortalfrieza]

I don't know about anybody else, but personally I haven't found many other movies to be good and interesting enough to bother watching besides superhero movies since around the time of the first Sam Raimi Spider-Man. I find even the critically panned stuff is better than most of what else comes out these days. I don't know if my tastes changed at that point (doubtful) or if the superhero movies just make the rest look like crap in comparison. So for that reason I hope the superhero bubble doesn't burst anytime soon.

 

[Nuxxy]

I don't know about anybody else, but personally I haven't found many other movies to be good and interesting enough to bother watching besides superhero movies since around the time of the first Sam Raimi Spider-Man. I find even the critically panned stuff is better than most of what else comes out these days. I don't know if my tastes changed at that point (doubtful) or if the superhero movies just make the rest look like crap in comparison. So for that reason I hope the superhero bubble doesn't burst anytime soon.

+1. This is how I look at movies: I don't have the time or money to go watch *every* movie. I go to the cinema to experience escapism, with big screen and surround sound. If I feel like a romcom, a crime drama, etc - I will wait for the video, unless I feel like getting out the house and there is nothing else on; or I've been invited to a screening by friends.

People seem to be so hating on Marvel's success. "Just you wait", "law of averages", "the bubble will burst". Rubbish. The main reason for Marvel's success if because the films have all been well made, decent action, decent laughs, great fun. Even the poorer ones had great moments. This isn't an issue of genre; it's an issue of quality.

 

[PMAvers]

Personally, I'm still holding out hope that some day we'll get a NEXTWAVE movie.

We don't deserve it as a species, but we need it.

 

[endtherapture]

More of MovieBob hating on Man of Steel and Spiderman...yawn.

Seriously Bob mate you're like a broken record now. Some of us actually enjoyed those films and they made tons of money, they aren't as universally banned as you'd like them to be.

 

[Living_Brain]

I'm pretty sure superhero movies will go away. It's totally just a phase. It might last 10 more years, 15 more years, but it will die down in popularity.

Also, I think we as a society have moved on from iconic villains of our time, (i.e. frankenstein, vampires, zombies) to iconic characters (superheroes), at least for now.

 

[VondeVon]

I don't think there are too many in general but I DO think that I've hit the limit for interconnected superheros. The world, and NYC, is getting mighty crowded.

I see the ads for Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver and they don't make me excited, they make me grim.