Vaughn Claims Superhero Movies Will Be Dead Soon
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BafflingBeerMan,
Posted on: 2010-08-09 10:21 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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given that inevitably effects work will get somewhat cheaper and improve over the next few years i dont see superhero movies going away anymore than any other effects intensive movies would. they may go through a period where they won't get 100 million$ budgets (or more), but that doesn't mean they go away. at their core (and as Foamy pointed out already... damn you! *shakes fist pointlessly*) superhero tales are just a different way of telling tales that are still being told in pretty much every other style of film. |
Originally Posted by Lord_of_Time
I couldn't agree more. In fact I'm surprised the genre hasn't imploded already under the sheer weight of super movies being made. I mean occasionally having a superhero movie come out is great and mixes it up in Hollywood. But it seems everything coming out nowadays is either based on a comic or graphic novel and often the source material is never honoured and the film is just a cheap imitation.
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this sounds more like some tool director is whining because his movie didn't hit it off nearly as big as he was hoping. so the reason people didn't go see his movie in droves wasn't because it was a bad movie, but because the genre is dying.
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The Ghost Rider sequel is due entirely to the Mouse.|
Originally Posted by SwellGuy
I still don't understand how a Ghost Rider sequel got okayed.
I think it has 2 more good years in it, then due to the time to make films another 5 years of bad movies before it ends. |
When Disney bought Marvel, they issued a "Use it, or Lose it" order to anyone licensing Marvel characters.
This is why Spider-Man is getting a reboot.
Why Daredevil and the Fantastic Four are getting new movies.
Why Thor, Captain America, and the Avengers are all coming out so close together.
Why the Dr. Strange movie got the green light.
And yes, this is why Ghost Rider is getting a sequel.
So when the genre dies off for a decade or two due to a deluge of mediocre films put out over the next two years - you can blame the Mouse.
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The super hero genre will no more die down than the action genre. Both films are still being made. They are just being made a little more cheaply. The idea of the every-man hero such as Defendor, and Kick-A$$ will die down sooner, and that's due to the glut of those type of movies. It's like disaster movies or vampire movies. If they make enough of one type of movie, people stop going to that lastest asteroid flick, or the lastest vampire flick. As much as many people here dislike Twilight, it was not the standard vampire movie. if they kept remaking teen vampire romances, people would get bored, and that would kill the Twilight Saga in the movies.
I don't see it ever going away, primarily because superhero stories are just extensions of the standard power and revenge fantasies that are common throughout every fictional medium.
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