i love superheroes comics, but it's becoming tiring.
flat characters and too many common elements, you go to see a film that's just come out and it already feels familiar. which i suppose is why they have all this success and they'll milk it until they can.
which seems "indefinitely", with all these bloody "reboots".
from that list, only dr. strange and aquaman are interesting for me, they have the potential to be somewhat different.
venom/carnage spin off(s) could be the nuts, but i'm sure they'll manage to make it dull.
I'm up for pretty much all the Marvel films - to be convinced over Ant Man and Inhumans, but solidly there for the others, also the X-Men & Wolverine, and I'll probably watch the F4 reboot with a sense of mounting horror, as everything I've read about that film sounds like it will be a train-wreck to eclipse not just the 2 poor originals but also fiascos like Daredevil / Electra / Ghost Rider.
Can't work up any interest for Spider-Man or the spin-offs, and all the DC films leave me completely cold.
Probably ought to mention for completeness that Marvel also have 5 or 6 TV series on the go with Netflix as well: Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones and then all together as The Defenders. And of course there's Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter as well, in case we get bored. DC/Warner have Gotham, Arrow, Flash and maybe one or two more on TV.
Getting reasonably tedious now, but hopefully due to the shear amount of these films coming out, in the interest of creativity and attempting to differentiate ones self from the others, a producer might actually take a punt on a halfway interesting director and try something a little different.
Worked with Nolan and Batman.
Worked with Snyder and Watchmen.
Maybe now is the time when someone will give Aronofsky or Steve McQueen a franchise and the creative power to take it in any direction they want to. Imagine Darren Aronofsky directing a series of Neil Gaiman's Sandman pictures or a Rorschach spinoff?
fjthegrey wrote:Getting reasonably tedious now, but hopefully due to the shear amount of these films coming out, in the interest of creativity and attempting to differentiate ones self from the others, a producer might actually take a punt on a halfway interesting director and try something a little different.
it makes sense and it would be nice, but why bother when the "same old" keeps getting you so much money anyway?
people like things they already know and are familiar with.
Kludgehammer wrote:Too much? Too few?! What of that lot appeals?
I feel one or two of these will struggle.
The Avengers follow up and Batman v Superman will be huge.
Some of the "new" films will need strong stories and reviews to survive. Antman, Aquaman, Dr Strange, Black Panther and Wonderwoman could all struggle.
We could still see the Green Lanten reboot, cyborg and shazam binned. Marvel are too far ahead of DC at present.
The problem with most of these films is that they script the action sequences first, then write the stories later. Dunno why they can't just pick one of the golden era stories that made the characters popular in the first place, and turn them into a movie.
Pretty depressing that I'll be in my forties looking on web sites for teaser trailers.
Saying that, I think too many are too alike, Spider-Man was pony, Thor was awful, it's only captain America that's really done it for me since avengers
Claretdave wrote:I feel one or two of these will struggle.
The Avengers follow up and Batman v Superman will be huge.
Some of the "new" films will need strong stories and reviews to survive. Antman, Aquaman, Dr Strange, Black Panther and Wonderwoman could all struggle.
We could still see the Green Lanten reboot, cyborg and shazam binned. Marvel are too far ahead of DC at present.
I think most of the DC films will be a hard sell unless Batman / Superman is huge - they're also trying to get JLA across before they've introduced most of the characters, opposite to the way Marvel did it. FF reboot is coming out just after Avengers 2, which will be a juggernaut - I don't expect it to fare well in comparison. If the FF franchise survives that, then FF2 is up against Thor 3 - I would expect that to either be moved or scrapped completely.
I don't get where Sony are going with the Sinister 6 film, unless it's going to be Spider-Man v Sinister 6
I agree with you on Green Lantern - that's going to need hellaciously good momentum from the JLA films to overcome the crap-heap of the first one - and Cyborg; can't see a huge market for Aquaman or Shazam either.
I think the Surfer is pretty toxic after the godawful 2nd F4 movie, though as Fox think they can relaunch F4 after those debacles anything is possible.
yeah, silver surfer über alles! always been my favourite superhero and his only big screen appearance has been disappointing.
a lobo movie could be great too, a space-cyberpunk flick with the last czarnian kicking arses, with a different plot from the standard "stop the bad guy, save the world".
No Strontium Dog? No Nemesis the Warlock? No A.B.C. Warriors? Pfft.
As to those mentioned: I dunno, once upon a time I would've had a clear idea as to which superhero films I was looking forward (Dr. Strange, the F4 reboot), which ones I was eyeing with some concern (the Superman/Batman mashup) and about which ones I couldn't give a stuff (Thor 3, Aquaman). But the Captain America movies, which I was SURE would be rubbish, were excellent; Ghost Rider and The Green Lantern, to both of which I was really looking forward, deeply disappointed; The Avengers is nowhere near as good as people seem to think it is, and it seems to get worse each time I see it; same goes for The Dark Knight Rises, a movie I really liked when I first saw it. But Iron Man 2 is, IMO, better than its reputation suggests, and Watchmen is f*cking superb. And only this week, I bought Man of Steel, a movie for which I had no love at all on its release. The huge critical success of Guardians of the Galaxy (full disclosure: still haven't seen it) puts paid to the idea that a little-known protagonist will sink the movie, and both Thor (Kenneth Branagh, 2011) and Hulk (Ang Lee, 2003) knackered the theory that an accomplished and interesting director will put an accomplished and interesting spin on these sorts of film.
All of which leaves me none the wiser as to which will make it and which won't, which deserve our attention and which don't. What I DO think though is that they're churning them out too quickly, and risking killing the Golden Goose. But after the success of Marvel's "Phase 1" leading up to The Avengers, this was always going to happen I suppose. I'll still end up seeing them all. Will I go to the cinema to see them all, though? F*ck, no.