Hope you're not tired of comic book movies yet
Between Iron Man's presumably big debut and next week's opening of Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy at the Met's Costume Institute, men in tights are having a moment—and you can expect to see even more of them in the years ahead. Judging by this Hollywood Reporter story, however, Marvel is starting to scrape the bottom of the superhero barrel. (Nice-looking barrel, by the way.) Here, a list of the uninspiring comic book movies coming soon to a multiplex near you:
-Nick Fury
-The Avengers
-Thor
-Ant Man
-Captain America*
(*Actually kind of cool. But as THR points out, "Captain America is a prime property but is perceived as a tough sale overseas." How far we've fallen.)
Photo: Paramount Pictures
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3:41:09 PM on
05/02/08
With the rich history of comic books making movies like the Avengers and Thor is really not good for the industry. I don't understand why movies like Sandman, Lucifer, more Sin City, and 300 can't be made instead. I mean come on Iron Man? If movies like this are being passed off as super heros, why don't they just make another Supergirl, or Plasticman, or Teen Titans? Honestly when society has to look at heros like Iron man for inspiration that really says 2 things. #1. that our ideas of heros has changed from the days of Superman, Spiderman, and Batman, to this second tier characters. Last I checked fans buy anything but Avengers. #2. That movie producers will just about put anything out under the banner of comic books. I persoanlly can't wait for the next Heavy Metal movie to be made, Sin City 2, and and I will wait for Sandman. As for Marvel getting my moeny this summer as long as they put movies like Iron man, Fantastic Four, and the Punnisher then they can forget it, the cash is safe in my wallet.
2:27:32 AM on
05/04/08
Since this is the internet and since this is a blog post about super-hero movies I'm forced to respond to the above comment with the following prepared statement:
Dude, Iron Man was AWESOME.