I'm already getting tired of the constant comic book movies, it's no great loss to me if I never see another one.
I have to admit, I find the whole "there's too many comic book movies" both accurate and a bit snobbish. What Marvel (at least the Disney owned movies) is doing is unprecedented, and none too different from old time movie serials. Say what you will about this line of films, they're competently produced and written overall. There's flaws, but nothing major. To me the fault about the over-saturation is the
other studios. The X-Men films are a mixed bag and all, but Fox's insistence to keep some of the Marvel franchises they botched horribly is ridiculous. I'm glad they lost what they did, but the critical and commercial failure of Fantastic Four should have lead to a direct surrender of the property to Disney. Sure, it took Daredevil and Ghost Rider forever to revert the rights to and they're both TV/Netflix characters in the universe of the movies and not movies themselves. Sony at least took the hint after screwing up Amazing Spider-Man 2 for trying to make a Universe out of
one comic book character and shares the characters with Disney. And letting
them have more input because
they know how to make Super Hero movies.
And then there's DC. [headdesk]. They technically could have had this and did it backwards with the super hero team movie first
then the spinoffs. There was a perfectly good script for a Justice League movie before the writers' strike after they made a Superman movie everyone hated for some reason. But no. They launched it off a mixed bag Superman movie (a franchise that animation aside has only like 1 really good movie and one decent enough one), followed it up with a disappointing knockoff of Civil War (it's the same basic plot
, but CW did it
right by NOT having a spazzy pervert as a villain), and then capped things off with a movie that
by all means should have been better than it was, was still better than Batman V Superman, but they screwed up by making them rush the script out. Now the only appealing DC comics movie isn't even related to their DCU, but the Lego Movie universe.
Other studios
shouldn't copy what Marvel has been successful with. They're doing it wrong, they've done a lousy job, it took Marvel years to achieve. And that's after quite a few misfires.
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