Anyone else tired of comic book movies???

[TRON JA307020]

I kind of am. I saw four movies this summer....Fast and Furious,Avengers, Mad Max and Antman. Out of those i enjoyed MAD MAX the most. It was an excellent action film with tons of real stunts. Fast and Furious would have been my second favorite. The other two were just kind of ok for me. I think im just not into the super hero/villian thing anymore. Plus the comedy in these films have been ramped up tenfold since Avengers. Im not suggesting comic movies are going away....just that i am tiring of them and looking for other types of fantasy films or in the case of Mad Max a return to more realistic types of fantasy.

Agreed. Avengers Age of Ultron was imo not as good as the first and quite frankly mediocre. I think the superhero craze reached its peak about a year ago and will now start to level off. I would much rather see action films like Mad Max, Die Hard etc. with real stunts. To much of a good thing can be not good after a while.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

I enjoy the Marvel movies made by Marvel. They have the right mix of adventure, fun, melodrama, and outright sillliness. I'm tired of the rest of them with the possible exception of Deadpool. I have no need for dark and gritty Superman, or Fantastic Four, or whatever.

 

[Timby]

I'm not tired of comic book movies in general, but I am fucking exhausted of the Marvel Studios formula and the need to have everything connected in a "universe" in some sort of nerd circlejerk.

Avengers 2 was a complete mess because of this. Why does Avengers 2 spend 40 minutes in Wakanda? Because they need to set up vibranium and the country before it shows up in Black Panther. Why is Ulysses Klaw there? So he can show up in Black Panther. Why does Vision have to get created? So he can fight Thanos in INFITY WAR PARTS ONE AND MOTHAFUCKIN TWOOOOOOO

. Why do Stark and Cap fight throughout the film? So they can do Civil War. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck me.

You'd think people would realize this, considering comic continuity gets so fucked up that DC and Marvel have to completely reboot their shit every ten years because it's so messy. That's why the Star Trek reboot worked -- it basically said "fuck off" to 40 years of bloat.

Just tell me a goddamn story.

 

[Hound of UIster]

Marvel has never rebooted their continuity.

DC's reboots were always motivated for higher short term sales rather than about "complications".

 

[Tosk]

Avengers 2 was a complete mess because of this. Why does Avengers 2 spend 40 minutes in Wakanda?

It didn't.

 

[martok2112]

Here's the way it goes for me:
The big Marvel movies (Avengers, Thor, CapAm, Iron Man) have always been a big attraction for me at the big screen. I am eagerly awaiting on standalones for Hawkeye and especially Black Widow....and I was sure it was said they were in the works. Hopefully, so is a standalone Hulk movie that is actually entertaining.

The sideline Marvel movies (Antman, GotG, etc), I usually wait for those on blu-ray. They are entertaining on blu-ray, but they just didn't hook me for a big screen event.

Enjoyed the Dark Knight Trilogy and Man of Steel. Eagerly awaiting Batman vs Superman. (I like Wonder Woman's costume, phwoaaarrrr!)

Top that off with some killer animated movies on blu-ray from both DC and Marvel.

And some killer shows like Arrow and Daredevil.

Nah..... I'm very far from being tired of comic book based movies/shows....especially since they've actually gotten good in the last decade or so.

 

[Tulin]

I'm tired of RomCom movies. They should stop making them because I say so.

I agree. Good call.

I can kind of agree.

In about 2007 I worked with a woman who would go and see EVERY one of those fucking Catherine Higel, McDreemy/Guy or girl of the moment romcoms that was coming out at the time. I swear there seemed to be a new one every week or every damned fortnight. She dutifully skipped along to EVERY ONE of these clichéd, cookie cutter pieces of shit, with the kind of glee that a child in 1983 had when going to see ROTJ for the first time.

It was like every one of these things was a BRAND NEW experience for her and not the exact same experience she'd had a fortnight ago.

I just COULD NOT understand it because I'd pay GOOD MONEY to not have to sit through one of these things.

 

[Tosk]

It's almost as though different people have different tastes.

 

[Tulin]

Right on time!

 

[E-DUB]

There have been so many you almost have to evaluate them individually. Looking forward to Dr. Strange. Used to love Ditko's work on that. (Would love to see the Creeper done theatrically but I know it's not going to happen.)

 

[FPAlpha]

Just recently saw Ant Man and it was a blast.. and also a small miracle to make a C List character that fun and interesting (don't care about the comic book heritage and the importance of Hank Pym.. Ant Man has no title of his own so that makes him a C Lister to me).

If you mean title like Amazing Spider-Man, Incredble Hulk, and Invincible Iron Man, there was Irredeemable Ant-Man for a while. I think that might have been the third Ant-Man, Eric O'Grady though, so I'm not sure if that counts for you.

Funny you should mention that because it's the only Ant Man i ever read and can remember to have its own series. That one was awesome because it was basically about a loser and a morally questionable guy who steals the Ant Man suit and goes on a (mild) crime spree (including watching women in the shower while Ant Man sized ).. you don't see that too often in a mainstream Marvel comic, much less it being the central character.

I laughed a lot but i believe it barely made 10 issues or so before cancellation but i see a bit of that character in the Ant Man movie so it's all good.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

I kind of am. I saw four movies this summer....Fast and Furious,Avengers, Mad Max and Antman. Out of those i enjoyed MAD MAX the most. It was an excellent action film with tons of real stunts. Fast and Furious would have been my second favorite. The other two were just kind of ok for me. I think im just not into the super hero/villian thing anymore. Plus the comedy in these films have been ramped up tenfold since Avengers. Im not suggesting comic movies are going away....just that i am tiring of them and looking for other types of fantasy films or in the case of Mad Max a return to more realistic types of fantasy.

Agreed. Avengers Age of Ultron was imo not as good as the first and quite frankly mediocre. I think the superhero craze reached its peak about a year ago and will now start to level off. I would much rather see action films like Mad Max, Die Hard etc. with real stunts. To much of a good thing can be not good after a while.

Superhero movies aren't leveling off anytime soon. As of next year, WB/DC is going to put out 2 movies a year, Marvel Studios is going up to 3 movies a year in 2017 (although that will apparently also include the Spider-man movies which are technically Sony as well), and Fox is looking at a possible new trilogy of X-men movies plus spinoffs. And all of that will still be only a fraction of the total movies coming out. If it seems like more than that, the only reason is because people still really love these movies and they continue to be among the most successful franchises.

 

[stardream]

I'm not tired of comic book movies in general, but I am fucking exhausted of the Marvel Studios formula and the need to have everything connected in a "universe" in some sort of nerd circlejerk.

Avengers 2 was a complete mess because of this. Why does Avengers 2 spend 40 minutes in Wakanda? Because they need to set up vibranium and the country before it shows up in Black Panther. Why is Ulysses Klaw there? So he can show up in Black Panther. Why does Vision have to get created? So he can fight Thanos in INFITY WAR PARTS ONE AND MOTHAFUCKIN TWOOOOOOO

. Why do Stark and Cap fight throughout the film? So they can do Civil War. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck me.

You'd think people would realize this, considering comic continuity gets so fucked up that DC and Marvel have to completely reboot their shit every ten years because it's so messy. That's why the Star Trek reboot worked -- it basically said "fuck off" to 40 years of bloat.

Just tell me a goddamn story.

I'm not tired of the movies as such but I'm tired of trying to keep the chronology straight with the added bits from the TV series. I need to keep a timeline in front of me so I can remember what happened when. My husband finally gave up on AoS... although he liked Agent Carter. I just keep plugging away hoping that eventually I'll be able to piece it all together.

 

[FPAlpha]

The TV show has very little impact on the movies at all, it's rather the other way around.

The setup for Avengers 2 was a nice bit but unnecessary for the movie.. the movie starts off with the assault on the Hydra base and it's never explained in the movie how they knew the location because it's not important and could be a number of things like Stark hacking a Hydra database or Cap doing some legwork spy style to find the location.

The chronology of the movies also don't reference each other much.. there's Tony's PTSD in Iron Man 3 as a result of the first Avengers movie and nothing much else that i can think of right now, they do tend to explain references in the movie itself (such as Tony having bad dreams and we see flashbacks to the fight in New York to explain his problem).

It's correct that Marvel is now doing seamless introductions to later movies and setting up events that pay off in a later movie but as i said they always do a quick recap in the movie itself so someone who has not seen the relevant movie before can understand what's happening.

 

[Marsden]

Nope. I waited all of my life for comic book movies to finally get good, so I am far from tired of them.

I'm not even remotely tired of them. I love them, and the more there are the happier I am. If you're getting tired of them, just don't watch them

I agree !

Quite !

I just wish I had some enthusiasm for the new DC universe. I can't say I have any interest whatsoever...

+1 to infinity and beyond!


People say "comic book movies" like it's just one thing, there's MCU, X-men, Spider-Man (although he seems to be part MCU now) and then DCU and all other movies that don't fit into those categories. It's many different thing of differing quality and style, so liking one is not remotely a guarantee of liking any of the others.

I have never in my life looked forward to seeing a movie like I have been in these last few years with each new MCU movie. The X-men I usually see on weekends I get free HBO although I saw the first one and First Class in the Drive-in, and I've still haven't got the chance to see the ASM 1 and 2 yet but I want to see them, just haven't gotten to it yet.

DCU, I'd like to be more interested but I'm just not. And I wasn't interested in that new FF movie but I don't think I was the only one of that opinion.

 

[Goji]

I only see the ones I'm interested in (and I skip quite a few, I've never seen a Fantastic Four movie and I haven't seen any Spider-Man movie since 2004), which I think helps avoid feeling burnt out on the genre as a whole. I'm looking forward to another X-Men movie next year, hopefully it will be as fun as the last two have.

 

[Kelthaz]

I dislike movies that play it safe and offer an experience that I've already seen many times before. Many comic book films are guilty of this, but that has nothing to do with getting tired of the genre. I just watch the good ones, ignore the bad ones, and mercilessly mock the terrible ones.

 

[Captain Craig]

I'm not tired of comic book movies in general, but I am fucking exhausted of the Marvel Studios formula and the need to have everything connected in a "universe" in some sort of nerd circlejerk.

Avengers 2 was a complete mess because of this. Why does Avengers 2 spend 40 minutes in Wakanda? Because they need to set up vibranium and the country before it shows up in Black Panther. Why is Ulysses Klaw there? So he can show up in Black Panther. Why does Vision have to get created? So he can fight Thanos in INFITY WAR PARTS ONE AND MOTHAFUCKIN TWOOOOOOO

. Why do Stark and Cap fight throughout the film? So they can do Civil War. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck me.

Did it have to be in Wakanda--probably not. But since it's got to be somewhere AND Black Panther is slated--Why not? Why bloody not? Also, while we are there we need a way for Ultron to end up with the vibranium. Did it HAVE to be Klaw as the broker, suppose not but why the bloody hell not?
Vision gets created as part of the process that Ultron is actually going to use said body for his own upgrade originally but hey, it gets co-opted and becomes Vision. Why is that a big deal? Ultron was going to get foiled so in that process Vision is created and it works out he'll be a great addition Infinity War films.

I think rants like this are more due to the fact that Feige has telegraphed what he's doing. So instead of just enjoying the ride you want to be mad about the interconnectedness.
I'm not saying that AoU couldn't have used some narrative strengthening but you seem mad that it's not random place or random broker as if that would've made the story oh so much better.

You'd think people would realize this, considering comic continuity gets so fucked up that DC and Marvel have to completely reboot their shit every ten years because it's so messy. That's why the Star Trek reboot worked -- it basically said "fuck off" to 40 years of bloat.

Just tell me a goddamn story.

DC has been guilty of this a lot. Marvel has never wholesale rebooted. Even coming out of Secret Wars('15) their history is largely in tact, they just shook out some narratives they don't prefer and inserted the Ultimate characters(really just Miles Morales) into the 616 fold.

I think the MCU has told good stories, some better than others of course but then again, that's kinda parallel to the books they are based on.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

I'm not tired of comic book movies in general, but I am fucking exhausted of the Marvel Studios formula and the need to have everything connected in a "universe" in some sort of nerd circlejerk.

Avengers 2 was a complete mess because of this. Why does Avengers 2 spend 40 minutes in Wakanda? Because they need to set up vibranium and the country before it shows up in Black Panther. Why is Ulysses Klaw there? So he can show up in Black Panther. Why does Vision have to get created? So he can fight Thanos in INFITY WAR PARTS ONE AND MOTHAFUCKIN TWOOOOOOO

. Why do Stark and Cap fight throughout the film? So they can do Civil War. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck me.

Did it have to be in Wakanda--probably not. But since it's got to be somewhere AND Black Panther is slated--Why not? Why bloody not? Also, while we are there we need a way for Ultron to end up with the vibranium. Did it HAVE to be Klaw as the broker, suppose not but why the bloody hell not?
Vision gets created as part of the process that Ultron is actually going to use said body for his own upgrade originally but hey, it gets co-opted and becomes Vision. Why is that a big deal? Ultron was going to get foiled so in that process Vision is created and it works out he'll be a great addition Infinity War films.

I think rants like this are more due to the fact that Feige has telegraphed what he's doing. So instead of just enjoying the ride you want to be mad about the interconnectedness.
I'm not saying that AoU couldn't have used some narrative strengthening but you seem mad that it's not random place or random broker as if that would've made the story oh so much better.

Just as an aside, for accuracy's sake, AoU didn't take place in Wakanda at all. It was in South Africa. Wakanda was only referenced once, as the source of vibranium and a strong government with a very dim view of criminals like Klaw (which was as much about setting up Klaw as someone significant as it was about setting up the idea of Wakanda).

 

[Captain Craig]

^^^
Good point.