Comments on: Discuss: Is 23 Super Hero Movies Over The Next 4 Years Too Much?

By: todd

todd — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

What about Big Hero 6?

By: Casey Moore

Casey Moore — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

How many indie films are too much? Relationship dramas? Family dramas? Crime films? Sci fi films? Just want for good films. Don't worry about the genre. Stupid question.

By: VIC

VIC — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

It is.

By: swell

swell — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

I'm not usually a grammar nazi but shit, fellas. That headline… subject-verb agreement. "Is" is for singular, "are" is for plural.

You're starting to write like lolcat captions.

By: Mo

Mo — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

Yes.

By: Casey Moore

Casey Moore — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

Sandman isn't a superhero. Helps to know the source material you are talking about. It is more fantasy than anything.

There is no confirmation on the WB slate, and there is a good chance Sony pulls back after the underperforming Amazing Spider-Man 2.

By: Zinjo

Zinjo — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

Has anyone heard of "The Law of Diminishing Returns"??

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

"(and hope and pray for the best; and someone get Zack Snyder off the notion that he is Christopher Nolan because far from it)"

Zack Snyder is a far superior filmmaker to Christopher Nolan who is third-rate, if that. Nolan hasn't made anything approaching Legend of the Guardians.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

WB is having a bad year? Which explains why they are the first studio to cross the billion dollar mark this year?

What a fair and well researched article

By: RNL

RNL — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

Capitalist pigdogs.

By: Duke

Duke — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

And how many horror films? Comedies? Romance? I'd say six superhero films a year isn't anywhere near being a big deal when the rest of the box office is already polluted with other filth.

By: Amsowers

Amsowers — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

I think the issue isn't with the part of the audience that cares enough to be looking at and commenting on this post, and the ones who keep up with this type of information. To us an Iron Man and a Batman film are different, Justice league and Avengers are different, to most moviegoers a super hero movie is a superhero movie and I think it will feel a lot like overhitting the market. I felt that a bit this year going to see 4 Super hero movies within a few months. Days of Future Past, Captain America 2 (saw it twice), and then Spiderman. Around the time I got to Days of Future Past it felt like a lot. I enjoyed all of them but, still. I think guardians of the galaxy is relatively safe from that problem because it looks more like something akin to Star Wars than something to a Super hero movie. Most people probably wouldn't have any idea it was a super hero film if it didn't have Marvel's name on all the posters.

I think it's great for us, and that the increase in movies will lead to an increase in quality when having a super hero movie won't set you apart. They'll need to be good to compete and in that regard it's a win win but overall I think it may exhaust the genre prematurely.

By: Glides

Glides — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

What studio is going to get that kick to the teeth?

*cough* Sony. No way that it's not Sony.

By: shark

shark — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

I can't imagine all of those are actually going to happen. DC and Sony both seem to be counting their chickens before they've hatched. They're following Marvel without understanding why Marvel's model worked. I would be mocking Fox, too, but DOFP was REALLY, REALLY good, and did exactly what it needed to do to make the X-Men franchise interesting again.
Anyway, it's amazing they're using Man of Steel as a franchise starter. I…guess it made money, but the WOM was lousy, IIRC.

By: GedronLacy

GedronLacy — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

I miss the days of good storytelling, The Shawshank Redemptions, The Cool Hand Lukes, No Country For Old Mens, good solid stories. Nowadays if you're not destroying s city then you have no business in Hollywood it seems. These movies have zero mystery behind them and is all digitally enhanced in post production, this is the end of true cinema and we are only left to oblige the teenage prom night moviegoers who want everything now now now, more explosions more special effects because why??? Because their attention span runs about as long as a bowel movement…But hey it's all about money right Hollywood??? Not about the audience and the characters, MONEY…Thank you to The Coen brothers, PTA, Tarantino, Darabont, Fincher, Ayer, Spielberg, Scorsese, and Terence Malick for not selling out.

By: Brian Schnoor

Brian Schnoor — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

When will a movie about Spider Woman be made?
I have always been waiting to see where she was from, how she looks, how she got her powers, and how they work too. I\’ve also wanted to know who her enemies are too.
So I\’d like to see a movie about her and it would be awesome if you could also make a movie that has villains in it against her who are so powerful that she needs to have Spidermans come help if she wants to win. That would get it a hole lot more webby, mysterious, and action filled with fighting to get and hide clues.

By: Dick Schitz

Dick Schitz — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

Sigh… Cinema Is Dead.

By: Bobbo Swarley

Bobbo Swarley — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

I think everyone is over thinking this at the moment. This is being made out to seem like there will be 23 Superhero films in a 1-2 year period. It's being spread out within 4 years…amongst the other cinema staples (ie buddy comedies, period dramas, horror films, romantic comedies etc…). The only way this goes south is if more than one of these super-flicks goes the Green Lantern route. Also, anyone bemoaning that the genre is rife with the same story over and over seems to be willfully denying that pretty much all of cinema with the exception of genre bending indies are more or less the same story retold (just different actors and locations).

The other potential problem I see is that there may be too many super-flicks tossed out within spitting distance of each other in the late spring-summer season. They need to be spread out a little more. That may help alleviate the feeling of glut for this particular genre.

By: Sanker from India

Sanker from India — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

I don't really care. I'm not a huge fan of superhero movies other than the occasional avengers or dark knight. Honestly I'm a big film buff and watch 40-50 movies a year of recent stuff. To give you an idea of what my last 5 movies
Blue jasmine
Synecdoche New York
Blue is the warmest colour
Donnie darko
Solaris (1972)
What I'm saying is there are easily 50 movies a year to watch which are great. Cannes 2014 has me all excited! I don't care about how many superhero films there are because I can happily ignore it all. It's only a problem for a film critic forced to sit through it all. I have a lot of friends who heap hate in twilight, Justin bieber etc all the time. But my response is that you ignore it or watch the classics and that's a better way to let pointless "pop culture" phenomenon fade away

I would really love it if you guys talked about like 5 movies which made you wanna be a film critic or something or 20 silent films you adore. The coverage during the sight and sound list was great cuz you guys were talking about the classics.

What I'm trying to say is that for a film buff there are enough classics out there to keep one occupied for their entire lives! And that makes me happy. If Hollywood wants it's mindless blockbusters then so be it.

By: Sanker from india

Sanker from india — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

The only thing really worrisome is the Netflix four tv superhero stuff. Prohibitive budgets ensure that tv cannot be an effects-obsessed-save-the-universe-explosion-fest. If that changes we can say goodbye to the great dramas of the golden age of tv. The nerds could take it over if they got what they wanted.

All this also makes me think of how less a superhero film stays in a kid's mind before he's obsessed with the next stupid distraction. And I'm only 21! I haven't watched a film in 2 weeks cuz I'm still thinking about synecdoche New York!

By: Dj west

Dj west — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

It's 6 a year. That's 1-2 a season. No, that's not too much.

By: Too old

Too old — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

You're obviously too old if you don't like all these superhero movies, at least at heart.
How can you NOT like superhero movies…I'm just waiting for the day when Deadpool gets his own movie. That one will be THE best. Hell Marvel's superheroes in general are the best so there's that.

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

If you don't like them, don't go – problem solved.

If audiences get bored, then studios will lose money and they stop making them – problem solved.

By: josh

josh — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

God what a depressing article. That "sea change" which will shake things up can't come soon enough.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:17 +0000

I don't think dc owns such strong characters to havea succesful cinematic universe like marvel, I mean asides from batman and supe, cuz shazam is cool as a videogame character but for a movie the whole idea sounds like a flop…