The Future of Comic-Films - A Personal Rant

The Future of Comic-Films - A Personal Rant

My thoughts on the future of comic-films and the attitude of the fans on this site.

Editorial Opinion
By thejackwagon94 - Mar 05, 2014 11:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Other

(Please note this is a first time article, I'm hoping the editors can make a reasonable article out of the incomprehensible mess that follows! Give me some pointers, please, any constructive criticism is required for better articles in future!)

The year: 2000. The film: X-men. Arguably, the first film since Batman Returns that really mined source material for any sort of resemblance to it's namesake.

What follows was what I like to refer to as the first Renaissance of comic-film.

Why? Let me explain, for Odin's sake!

By the late 90's, genre films (and by extension, the burgeoning comic-film genre that books booms today) was struggling. Batman and Robin tanked, as well as the first attempt at an American Godzilla, which was so terrible it managed to destroy Trendmasters (the American toy company that held merchandising rights for Godzilla at the time), and things were looking grim. A matter of years earlier, Burton's Batman films and movies like Independence Day raked in the cash. But meddling executives and directors who had little respect for the properties they were handling and the fans that came with them managed to (apparently) burst the bubble that had been tenuously erected by previous films.

Enter Singer's X-men. Love it or hate it, X-Men entered the scene as an entertaining, thoughtful film that was rooted in the souce material ( for the time, anyways...) and managed to make a hefty chunk of change in the process.

Fox-Men, whether you like it or not, spurred a flurry of new comic films, for instance, Sam Raimi's Spider-man and it's sequels, Ang Lee's HULK, and more, leading up to Chris Nolan's Batman Begins, which helped further strengthen the genre of comic-films, while also displaying the monetary potential of the "reboot." Meanwhile, films like 2009's Star Trek, Terminator: Salvation, and even more recent reboots of popular franchises such as Robocop (2014... as if we'd already forgotten!) Ninja Turtles (also this year, though forthcoming) and Dredd (2012) proved profitable enough, in one way or the other.

Flash-forward to 2014. On the horizen is Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America: the Winter Soldier, a second American Godzilla, the aforementioned Ninja Turtles reboot, and more! The time we live in is rife with comic and genre films up the proverbial wazoo.

And yet, here we are, warring over Marvel and DC. Going from X-men to the Dark Knight to the Avengers, and still trying to knock people for their own personal tastes. Perhaps only because one person likes one over the other, and they feel the need to attack one because they don't belong to their camp.

I've got news for you, my friends, nothing good lasts forever. The comic/genre film bubble will burst, and one day our comic films won't be so plentiful. We'll look back with fondness on the days of BatFleck and the Billy Idol Goblin, I guarantee it. So love your brother from a competitor, just because heprefers DC to Marvel or vice versa, doesn't mean he/she isn't a comic fan too. Both sides have done their characters justice, why battle? We should all shed a tear when Batman is miscast, or the new Fox-Men sucks, as we're all comic fans, and we all want to see our beloved characters brought to life properly.

Preaching accomplished! What did you think? Please help my next article to be better, and until next time, be excellent to each other!

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feedonatreefrog
feedonatreefrog - 3/6/2014, 12:08 AM
DCfan638
DCfan638 - 3/6/2014, 1:16 AM
Is that an Ellen reference?

Anyways, nice first article! I just did my first one a few days ago:
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/news/?a=95427

I suggest you check your spelling ;) and watch out for your organization, you mention Robocop and the upcoming Ninja Turtles, but then you say "Flash-forward to 2014". I'm just sayin'.

And one more thing... WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE BUBBLE BURSTING.
THAT BEGETS EXILE.

You can message me if you ever want a test reader, or if you want to discuss ideas or something.
sikwon
sikwon - 3/6/2014, 3:17 AM
I love all comic movies. I hate Bryan Singer. Good job.
TheHeroGothamDeserves
TheHeroGothamDeserves - 3/6/2014, 4:35 AM
"the first film SINCE BATMAN RETURNS that really mined source material"

uh no, Batman Returns may be an entertaining movie, but it is definitely not faithful to the source material. Other than this little petpee, good article.
Pasto
Pasto - 3/6/2014, 5:31 AM
What is that one song, where he goes 'This is my life'?
MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 3/6/2014, 7:31 AM
No mention of the BRILLIANT Blade?

Gotta give credit where it's due. Goyer and Norrington were the first success. But Singer did a bang up job as well.

Nice first article, but yeah, paragraph breaks and organization will help you in the future.
MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 3/6/2014, 7:37 AM
And, for Gusto...

MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 3/6/2014, 7:40 AM
Sorry Gus...

I feel bad... Here's a Miley to make it up to you.

thejackwagon94
thejackwagon94 - 3/6/2014, 7:57 AM
Thanks for all the input, guys! Next time, I'll try not writing my editorials with so many Russians in me! @DCfan638, thanks! I'll keep you in mind, I've a few more specific eds swimming about in my brain I'll float by you when they're done, if you don't mind! Also, @Gusto commented on my article, I feel like I met a celebrity.
thejackwagon94
thejackwagon94 - 3/6/2014, 8:00 AM
@Merc dude, I just watched the Blade trilogy and I feel like such a schmuck for not mentioning the first film here. It really is phenomenal. Even the third one was entertaining.
thejackwagon94
thejackwagon94 - 3/6/2014, 8:25 AM
@sotojuice http://filmschoolrejects.com/news/steven-spielberg-hollywood-is-headed-for-a-meltdown.php
It may be Hollywood as a whole, and I should have mentioned both that and the article, not specifically cbms. Hopefully it won't come to pass, I just think we should enjoy what we have while it's good and theoretically getting better before life does what it does and puts its thumbs in our bums. You're correct, however, I'm no clairvoyant, and I appreciate your criticism.
thejackwagon94
thejackwagon94 - 3/6/2014, 8:29 AM
And hey, who could complain about a big ole' stack of cmbs to go through! I sure hope you're right, I just can't help but be pessimistic about anything relating to Hollywood, they thought asexual Simba-chinned Geico geckos would make a good Godzilla.
thejackwagon94
thejackwagon94 - 3/6/2014, 8:41 AM
@sotojuice thankfully. Didn't those guys (or half of them, anyways) do 2012? ID4 was the only movie Emmerich/Devlin did that I enjoy. Zilla was okay as a monster film, not a Godzilla film. I kinda hope the new independence day will burn up in orbit, needs a sequel about as bad as Titanic.
ThunderKat
ThunderKat - 3/6/2014, 10:07 PM
How do you not mention Raimi's "Spider-Man." It really ratcheted things up for all properties and potential. "X-Men" got the ball rolling, but "Spider-Man" was nitro.

That said, you are one in a million who tires of people ripping on each other due to DC/Marvel preferences.

People, rip on the subject not the commentators.
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