EDITORIAL: Comic Book Movie Fans Are Spoiled

I totally agree. I've loved these characters for so long I get excited just seeing them on screen. Yeah you strive for amazing movies but hey a lot of these companies do learn from mistakes.

Since when did term "fan" become synonym to "complainer".
What I don't understant with nowadays is that, with such a large variety of CBMs, why do people watch movies, or read news about movies, that they already have decided they are not gonna like.

Expected just another generic and recycled editorial, but this was actually really neat. Nice write-up

@HOTSHOT

I was expecting that response lol. You may have legitimate criticism (as with any film) but some fans are starting to nit pick and not even give a film a fair chance. So I thought a walk down memory lane might change some minds. Could you imagine Raimi's Spider-Man released now? It would be ripped to shreds. "NO WEB SHOOTERS!" "MARY JANE WASN'T HIS FIRST LOVE THIS MOVIE IS ALREADY RUINED" see where I am going with this?

@everyone else

thank you for the positive feedback everyone I really appreciate it!

Doom

Don't you get it? We're supposed to like everything that comes out now because back in the 80's and 90's there were also terrible movies....or something like that?

I dont get it either man. Bad movies are bad movies. Like the ones you like and dislike the rest. The formula shouldn't change because now there are more CBM's than ever before.

Im sorry but both Ghost Rider movies are terrible. That isn't me being spoiled, that is me being honest. They [frick]ing truly suck. So did both F4 films and many other CBMs.

I guess im just missing the point of this article?

I made this point on another article as well, but when I was in high school, it was non-nerds that made it unbearable to be a nerd. Now it's fellow nerds that make it unbearable.

Yeah its awesome as long as Hollywood don't butt [frick] the characters we love then its not :)

Merry Xmas! :P

X-Men, Spider-Man, X2, Spider-Man 2 >>>> IM, TIH, IM2, Thor, CA, FC, Avengers, TASM, The Wolverine, IM3, Thor TDW

For me, Avengers on first watch was like a 9.5/10.

Now it's sunk down to a 6.5/10.

The excitement of these heroes meeting has wore off and now all I have is 2.5 hrs of groan-worthy Whedon dialogue, tv lighting, and no compelling plot. A few action shots are cool (tracking shot of Iron Man flying), as are a few jokes ("It seems to run on some form of electricity!"), but there's not much here for me anymore.

I see myself rewatching SM, SM2, XM, and X2 a lot more than Avengers in the future.

It's mostly the obsessed fans like us on this site that rant about these movies. The majority of fans enjoy the movies at the cinema. I only dislike CBM's when there are serious flaws. Of all the 2000's CBMs I've only disliked Elektra, TASM and Ghost Rider 2.

Jj63

You're welcome to think those are the only movies that suck. Thats what opinions are all about. I, on the other hand, think that others certainly have sucked.

IMVuze

Oh I'm grateful that CBM's are at the forefront and a lot are getting made. Definitely. However, it doesn't mean I have to pretend to like most of them.

Corndog @ ;P

Yeah, ignoring DC and others output and just focusing on Marvel is missing more than half the picture.

Modern (and I mean not golden aged serials or camped out Batman) CBMs start with Superman: The Movie.

S:TM was the first time that special effects had caught up with what was easy to draw in the books. "You will believe a man can fly!" was the tagline for a good reason. Also, the film was born in the Jaws/Star Wars blockbuster era, cementing the idea that quality CBMs would be nationwide events for everyone, rather than just something to take the kids to.

It was also the fall of the Superman movies that turned poor CBMs into hokey messes to be mocked and ignored, and the years ahead would showcase a lot of these as well.

Batman (1989) was the next major milestone, where CBMs once again proved they could pack the house. Another era of CBMs were launched including mining lesser known titles like The Rocketeer, The Crow, as well as pulp/radio/strip titles like Dick Tracy, The Shadow, and The Phantom with somewhat mixed results.

The true Marvel Era began with X-Men, whose biggest contribution was best summed up with "What, would you prefer Yellow spandex?" as well as deftly handling the first major CBM team-up by anchoring the story on a few characters and ignoring the need to have a hundred origins because they all had the same one: They're mutants.

Spiderman showed that reverence to the source is not necessarily a bad thing (Stacy and organic shooters notwithstanding) as well as defining a New York superhero in a 9/11 dazed world.

Nolan's Batman series was a semi-realistic take on a usually stylized world, as well as the most invested performances before or since and the only CBM role to win an Oscar.

Sin City was the result of strict adherence to the page as a storyboard, which Snyder then carried over to 300 and Watchmen. Marvel launched its string of interconnected films that would become the "Phase" system and the MCU, based on the perfect casting of RDJ as Tony Stark and the good will generated by hit after hit based in this shared universe.

The Avengers was the end result of this experiment - the highest grossing CBM of all time, even if ultimately the film is bogged down with a bunch of rolling around in the dirt before we get to the superlative finale.

But one thing has been true, even back in the serial days - Comic book fans, who are heavily invested in continuity and extremely vocal, will bitch and moan as loud as they can. This has always been the case, and always will be, and god bless them they do keep the filmmakers constantly on their toes.

Oh, and MOS SUXORS!

Well if the poor in the medieval times had internet they would also scream and shout and rag out their kings and queens.

It's only natural for people to express displeasure but it is not natural not to have good taste in things or be appreciative of things in front of you.

Sure it may paint a picture of Pretention but ultimately like what you like but dont' go thinking that you have control over something you clearly don't.

Merely state an opinion and walk away, don't linger, don't be a bad fan because it is fact that these are the same fans that drools over their idols in person.

I mean if Bale asked as Baleman hater to lick his butthole, I am pretty sure that Godzillafart would have no qualms licking that shit up.