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A movie that began the current comic book craze.

Yes, and no. Looking back X-Men m may have proven that "serious' comic book adaptations were lucrative. But Spider-Man is the movie that made studios go crazy for superhero films. After its success the floodgates really began to open.
 
The Marvel hat trick of Blade, X-Men, and Spider-Man is what did it. It seems like we can all agree on that. Maybe some will point to one movie over the other two, but it took those three all together to get this era going.
 
I would say Blade started the current trend because it was made on a small budget with a lesser known character
 
My personal opinion is that X-Men started the superhero craze of this millennium. To be fair though, I didn't even know Blade WAS a comic book, so that's why I never would have even thought of Blade.
 
Blade showed you could do a CBF in Hollywood and turn a decent profit....
 
scifiwolf said:
The Marvel hat trick of Blade, X-Men, and Spider-Man is what did it. It seems like we can all agree on that. Maybe some will point to one movie over the other two, but it took those three all together to get this era going.
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I can see the argument of the Marvel hat trick. But out of those 3, Spider-Man grossed almost 5 times that of Blade and 2.5 times that of X-Men, so Spider-Man kinda launched it to greater heights. My point is, one reason Raimi was selected was his work on Darkman. And Raimi made Spider-Man a huge success which was an enormous blockbuster. So, on a side note, Marvel seeing his story & direction for Darkman....that had a hand in comic book craze.
 
I always think of Blade as the one that knocked on the door, X-Men banged, then Spider-Man knocked it the heck down.
 
CFE said:
While 'Superman: The Movie' truly got the ball rolling on the entire sub-genre...'X-Men' started the current craze.
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Without Blade to get X-men made the current craze wouldn't exist. That's why Blade technically started the craze.
 
I wonder, since there are some of us who think it was Blade, why wouldnt Marvel have rolled the dice with a bigger named hero?
 
Peyton Westlake said:
I wonder, since there are some of us who think it was Blade, why wouldnt Marvel have rolled the dice with a bigger named hero?
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Blade gives them more leeway they couldn't get with from the comic fans and the general public on say, FF.
 
I think Blade was the key for its start.

X-Men got the ball rolling and it was SPIDER-MAN that set it all up. So to me it was a three stage process.
 
SM:TM - is where it all started
B89 - proved how dark comic book films can be successful
X-Men - introduced CBM to the new millenium
SM - opening up a whole new door for other comic book films

B&R - for the reboots :woot:
 
yay Doctor Jones way to totally ignore the last 14 or so posts on this page
 
Robocop, even though not a comic book movie, was very close to one. He looked like Iron Man and Cyclop combined. I am not saying it started the comic book craze but it might have played a role in it maybe.
 
I don't get why people even mentioning Blade as starting the comic book craze....it didn't. How many people went to go see blade thinking "OMG! they finally made a Blade movie...those are some of my favorite comic books ever, I loved that charecter!" ?...Im guessing not many. The majority of people went to see it because it was about a vampire slayer (and face it, vampire slayers are awesome) and it had good wom. I bet you a lot of the people who've seen blade STILL don't know its based off a comic.

X-men and Spider-man are really what started it imo. Everyone and their mothers know that X-men and Spidey are based off comics. Spider-man is what makes studios spit out 4-5 comic book movies a year at the general audiences (and a lot of them poor in quality,unfortuantely)
 
Well it was a film based on a comic and it showed the big studios that you could produce a financially viable film based on comic book material....Blade was produced by New Line (who was owned by Time Warner)
 
X-men and Blade certainly helped it, but it was really Spider-man that started it.

I mean, in the early/middle 90's, other than Batman and Darkman, there wasn't really any good superhero movies.
 
Sentinel X said:
I don't get why people even mentioning Blade as starting the comic book craze....it didn't. How many people went to go see blade thinking "OMG! they finally made a Blade movie...those are some of my favorite comic books ever, I loved that charecter!" ?...Im guessing not many. The majority of people went to see it because it was about a vampire slayer (and face it, vampire slayers are awesome) and it had good wom. I bet you a lot of the people who've seen blade STILL don't know its based off a comic.

X-men and Spider-man are really what started it imo. Everyone and their mothers know that X-men and Spidey are based off comics. Spider-man is what makes studios spit out 4-5 comic book movies a year at the general audiences (and a lot of them poor in quality,unfortuantely)
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I bet you a lot of the people who've seen blade STILL don't know its based off a comic.



You may be right with that.
 
Sentinel X said:
I don't get why people even mentioning Blade as starting the comic book craze....it didn't. How many people went to go see blade thinking "OMG! they finally made a Blade movie...those are some of my favorite comic books ever, I loved that charecter!" ?...Im guessing not many. The majority of people went to see it because it was about a vampire slayer (and face it, vampire slayers are awesome) and it had good wom. I bet you a lot of the people who've seen blade STILL don't know its based off a comic.

X-men and Spider-man are really what started it imo. Everyone and their mothers know that X-men and Spidey are based off comics. Spider-man is what makes studios spit out 4-5 comic book movies a year at the general audiences (and a lot of them poor in quality,unfortuantely)
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Yeah you're right. I'm not going to ignore what Blade did, but you are right, and I give most of the credit to X-Men. I didn't know Blade was a comic until Blade II came out.
 
The Chris said:
Yeah you're right. I'm not going to ignore what Blade did, but you are right, and I give most of the credit to X-Men. I didn't know Blade was a comic until Blade II came out.
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So It may be X-Men & then Spider-Man.
 
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