In light of the recent news that Warner Bros. is planning to make a Justice League movie and to reboot the Batman franchise after Christopher Nolan’s third and final Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises I have decided to do an article about the horde of comic inspired movies in recent years. I’m not saying this is a bad thing I love the Marvel and DC superheroes but I don’t buy many comics so I think it’s really cool that there are movies that can introduce a wider audience to a lot of interesting and unique worlds. This is good for Hollywood because they’ve been having a tough time coming up with good creative ideas recently. The only problems I have with it are the times when they take something good like Fantastic 4 and screw it up, and that it may be discouraging creativity because it’s easier to take an existing idea that already has fans than to make your own and try to get people interested. What I mean is making a script for a Spider-Man movie is easier than making an original one plus Spider-Man will make way more money because everyone already loves him. So here is a list of live action comicbook movies I’ve personally seen sense the year 2000.
X-Men, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins Wolverine, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider, Hulk, The Incredible Hulk, Ironman, Ironman 2, The Punisher, The Punisher: War Zone, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Red, V for Vendetta, 300, The Spirit, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Kick-Ass, Watchmen, Superman Returns, Hellboy, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Losers, Men in Black 2 and Wanted.
That’s 33 movies over the span of 11 years and that’s just the ones I’ve seen. As you can see the genre isn’t that much better than any other one, there are bad ones, ok ones, good ones and a few great ones which shows that just because you take good source material doesn’t mean you’ll have a good movie or make all that much money. I don’t mind comicbook movies if I did I wouldn’t watch so many but I don’t want it to discourage film makers from taking risks or doing original works like Inception which is better than just about every movie on that list. Also if you’re doing a franchise like Superman and the movies aren’t working out its okay to reboot it but if you have something like the current Batman series or the now finished Spider-Man series don’t reboot it just to save money. Keep it going and show us more characters and deeper storylines. There’s no point in a bunch of movies following a superhero if he only fights the same villains and keeps going through the origin tale.
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