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When will Hollywood stop churning out Comic Book movies?


There has to be a point where enough is enough and people are fatigued by it. When do you suppose this will happen?

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Well, to my understanding Marvel started out as its own start up company....these big names that bought them over the years have nothing to do with their material and quality.....That's why the Marvel movies are so popular....talented people, who love the project work on them and have painstakingly weaved all the stories and characters together and lay seeds in films that do not germinate until several other films and they are making so much money.

Star Wars on the other hand was bought by the big names, and the story and art are run by the big corp. hacks who just care about profit and throwing together any focus group checklist of ingredients into a movie, add effects, brand it with the name Star Wars and has put together utter crap....films that have nothing to do with the other, the profits keep going down and they are some of the most controversial films around. Their quality is poor, the stories are go off in every direction, characters aren't true to their origins, cannon is just out the window and it doesn't stick with the established universe at all.......it is nothing but a big corporation buying a name product and putting out crap just trying to churn a buck.

Marvel was a small private company started by guys who loved the comic book stories and they have given their all to these films.
Disney swooped in with their money as usual to try and make even more money but those that started Marvel are still in creative control

I'm sure if the Disney corp. people ever take that ever than the crap storm of horrible films will start.

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This is so true. I wished Disney would have done the same with Lukas films. Just injecting the money and let well George Lukas keep the creative control. It’s what Disney did with Marvel and worked out.

They just added budget and let Kevin Faige stay in charge of Marvel Studios without bothering him on what he should do.

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Never? Given the number of series based on this genre there may well be generations of viewers ready to buy cinema tickets and keep the whole thing running - as long as they are well enough made. They don't even have to be comic book fans as such - it just that comic-book stories and setting are the new normal.
Then again, when I was a kid there were lots of cowboy/western series and films and where are those now?

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“Buy cinema tickets.” How pre-COVID-19, and how quaint.

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Apparently cinemas will reopen in July here in the UK - it will be interesting to see how busy they get.

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If they have to function at 50% capacity then they won't sustain much longer. No business that relies on full capacity can expect to turn a profit when you are forced to reduce your customer base.

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Not sure about that. Many of the films I go to watch have few people in the audience and twice, in the last year or two, I've been the only one (early on a Saturday morning and perhaps late in a films run). I've also been in packed cinemas but this only seems to happen on a Friday night and at the weekend. So I suspect there is a lot of unused capacity and if the audience adapts to use it then there will be enough business to turn a profit.

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Yeah, those are called matinee showings and are usually low attendance, thus the prices may be cheaper.

I'm talking overall ticket and theater capacity. When you take away any businesses ability to service 150 customers an hour and reduce it by 50% that immediately cuts their profit and margins.

If you say the theater you go to consistently has less than 5 people for every showing going well into the final screenings then that theater is losing money.

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Depends on the Cinema chain but generally the seats aren't cheaper - it's just convenient for me. But my point is I suspect most of these multiplex cinemas only get busy for one or two big movies and even then only over two or three days of the week. So with a bit of organisation on their part and flexibility on ours they can still get reasonable numbers - assuming people are willing to go in the first place.

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When? March 2020!

Seriously, the worldwide reduction in theater-going has ruined the business model that made these $200 million dollar films profitable, and the movie theater industry is going to be permanently impacted. There will be no more films that earn a billion dollars in the opening month, so any superhero movies made after this will have to be cheaper and less spectacular. If Marvel Films quietly folds its tents and fades away into the night, it will be because we came to the end of their era 3 months ago. But damn, it was fun while it lasted.

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"There has to be a point where enough is enough and people are fatigued by it."

Why on earth do you make this assumption?

"When do you suppose this will happen?"

Never. Keep in mind that "Sin City," "Polar," "Atomic Blonde," "30 Days of Night," "A History of Violence," "300," and more and more and more are all "comic book movies." If you are clumsily trying to reference *Superhero* comic book movies, the answer's the same.

It's also useful to consider that "Comic book movies" have been coming out since the 1930s. Filmmaking has progressed to the point that the more fantastical elements are no longer out of reach for the special effects gurus. So the more visually elaborate stories (which have Always had a significant fanbase) are finally getting light. But again: they're never going to "go away." Why would they? There's an essentially limitless source of stories, with a dedicated (and growing) audience.

But of course, you should feel free to never watch another one. Won't matter in the slightest, but it makes more sense than puzzling over why everyone else is having so much fun.

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Hopefully never.

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I’m personally very fatigued by superhero movies, and I’ve gracefully bowed out of the superhero genre for right now. Endgame was a great ending point for me. I have no desire to continue to see any more superheroes.

One exception: I will still check out most any Batman film though.

I do think most of the general public will keep going for a few more years now before a larger scale fatigue kicks in.

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Maybe the genre would've played itself out but maybe the beginning might've already started prematurely due to the pandemic

If cinema survives and MCU does a few more and DC manages to do the Keaton/Flashpoint thing maybe it will go back to the occasional big standalone superhero film as was in the 80s/90s/00s like a new rebooted Superman, Batman, Spiderman etc every now and then.. with the group team up MCU style movies sort of a thing of the past having played itself out with Endgame being the absolute pinnacle of that style of overblown 300m budget superhero movie and partially due to covid ruining everything.. its early days but unless a bone fide vaccine is developed how are cinemas and other things going to realistically go on?..idk I guess it will all get sorted out and things will go back to normal .. but if the movie industry has to take a good couple of years out will superheroes still be 'in' ? Will going to the cinema still be a thing to do when you can do Netflix etc? (an issue/concern that was really just beginning before covid) will superhero movies transfer to that? .. idk you'd think nothing could touch the genre now but times and views and interests change and what was once all encompassing popular doesn't last forever and genres have their day and fizz out and audiences move on to something else (look at the Western, 50s/60s historical epics, 70s disaster movies, 80s action films with muscle bound action stars) and then theres the occasional popular throwback movie to those genres that might create a resurgence in the genre (Unforgiven, Gladiator, Independence Day, Extraction)..but often its like people just move on to something else and genres just seem to just fade away once it reaches its peak. people just become sick of t or it jumps the shark and starts to get silly or actors leave ..(It even happened to Bond a couple of times times but it managed to pull through)

however big Sci Fi movies have always been 'in' since Star Wars so maybe superheroes will too (and most of the superhero movies are actually different genres now anyway - Logan/Western, Cap America/WW2, Winter Soldier/70s conspiracy, TDK/crime epic, MOS/alien invasion, Joker/Scorsese etc) its all too uncertain as to if superheroes will remain as popular, and even if cinemas will survive and thrive or if 'Endgame' will be the ironically titled last big superhero movie

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I'm with you there. I was super hyped by the whole MCU machine right up to Endgame. Far from Home was a bit of an anticlimax after that. Then when the whole movie industry shut down for 4 months, something changed and I've lost interest in any more comic book movies. Can't summon up any enthusiasm for Black Widow or any of the movies after that, at least for now.

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I hope soon because they are all rediculous.

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There's been a demand for comic book movies for as long as there have been comic books. If people like comic books, and lots of people do, then it follows that a lot of people will like movie adaptions of them.

I think the reason that they have exploded in the 21st century (starting with Spider-Man in 2002) is that movie making technology was finally getting to the point where they could do the fantastical elements of comic books justice onscreen.

I grew up in the '80s and back then, Christopher Reeve's Superman movies were as good as it got for comic book movies. The Hulk was in a low-budget TV show and was just some bodybuilder painted green. 6' 4", 285-lb. Lou Ferrigno was a far cry from 7', 1,000-lb. comic book Hulk.

As a side note, the only guy I know of who could have come close to passing for the Hulk was Andre the Giant, and only if he'd taken up competition-level bodybuilding and anabolic steroids in the 1970s when he was young / before his gigantism/acromegaly-related health problems kicked into high gear. He had the height, Neanderthal-looking face, a huge head, wrists, hands, feet, and overall thick/deep skeletal structure... just add Mr. Olympia-level musculature and he would have been 500+ lbs. of muscle and insanely strong (he was already one of the strongest guys in existence even without working out).

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