Favourite teaser trailers for Comic Book Movies?

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Adhesive Boy said:
Blade is definitely a superhero movie. It goes regardless if you judge it by if it has a super powered hero, or if it is based on superhero comics. Just like how GotG is a space opera doesn't change the fact that it's also a superhero movie.
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It's not only a super hero movie, it's the genesis of the modern comic book genre. What it accomplished is amazing and overlooked, and we might not have the golden age of CBMs without it.

As my person trailer favs, I can remember repeatedly watching Spider-man, Hulk 03, Avengers, Green Lantern, and Captain America: Civil War. However, I might have watched Black Panther more than any of them to date.
 
Adhesive Boy said:
Blade is definitely a superhero movie. It goes regardless if you judge it by if it has a super powered hero, or if it is based on superhero comics. Just like how GotG is a space opera doesn't change the fact that it's also a superhero movie.
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Just because a movie is based on a comic, or even a Marvel comic, doesn't make it a superhero movie.

Blade isn't based on superhero comics, it's based on the character from The Tomb of Dracula, which are horror comics. The movie is a hybrid of martial arts and horror. Blade has superpowers, but he isn't a superhero, he's a vampire slayer. He's not interested in great responsibility or the greater good; his drive is the complete extermination of all vampires.

Guardians of the Galaxy, again, isn't a superhero movie. There are no superheroes in it. It's much closer in line to Star Wars or even Red Dwarf. If you call Quill a superhero, you'd have to call Han Solo a superhero as well.
 
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Lantern Venom said:
It's not only a super hero movie, it's the genesis of the modern comic book genre. What it accomplished is amazing and overlooked, and we might not have the golden age of CBMs without it.
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It really isn't. Blade had absolutely no effect on anything that came out afterwards except it's own sequels. It was a minor hit, but it had no effect on movies like X-Men and Spider-Man which were both in the pipeline log before Blade anyway.

The genesis of the modern superhero genre is Singer's X-Men, and the way it wiped the slate clean of the camp nonsense of the 90's Batman sequels, and started again with more sober, dramatic superheroes. Combine that with Sam Raimi's putting Peter Parker's characterisation to the forefront of Spider-Man, and you've got the blueprint for modern day superhero movies.
 
Kevin Roegele said:
Just because a movie is based on a comic, or even a Marvel comic, doesn't make it a superhero movie.

Blade isn't based on superhero comics, it's based on the character from The Tomb of Dracula, which are horror comics. The movie is a hybrid of martial arts and horror. Blade has superpowers, but he isn't a superhero, he's a vampire slayer. He's not interested in great responsibility or the greater good; his drive is the complete extermination of all vampires.

Guardians of the Galaxy, again, isn't a superhero movie. There are no superheroes in it. It's much closer in line to Star Wars or even Red Dwarf. If you call Quill a superhero, you'd have to call Han Solo a superhero as well.
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He's a superhero that's been in many pure superhero comics, that's been on superhero teams, and he just fits the definition of a superhero. What drives a superhero is not part of the definition but he's certainly not alone in being a superhero that's not all cuddly and good, and he definitely saves people and doesn't just focus entirely on killing.

GotG is a superhero movie. Several super powered characters in a movie about bunch of different people coming together as a team and becoming heroes.
 
Some of my favorites have already been poster on here. But, here's one...

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Kevin Roegele said:
It really isn't. Blade had absolutely no effect on anything that came out afterwards except it's own sequels. It was a minor hit, but it had no effect on movies like X-Men and Spider-Man which were both in the pipeline log before Blade anyway.
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Avi Arad credits Blade's success for changing the CBM landscape:

In 1998 he co-produced Blade, the story of an immortal warrior who battles an underworld of vampires bent on destroying the human race. Released by New Line Cinema, the movie earned three times more than it cost to make. Comic book fans praised Arad for remaining true to the Marvel character, and reviewers considered it to be a high-quality action film. As Arad told Filmforce , "After that, people were listening very carefully. Very carefully."
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Read more: http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/A-Ca/Arad-Avi.html#ixzz5B6nrbuNJ

Blade was also partially responsible for landing David Goyer the Batman Begins, and eventually Man of Steel, writing gigs. Thus, it's responsible for altering the fates of both Marvel and DC on film.
 
Lencho01 said:
Some of my favorites have already been poster on here. But, here's one...

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I used to watch that trailer all the time when it first came out! Too bad the film wasn't as cool!
 
Lantern Venom said:
[Blade] is the genesis of the modern comic book genre. What it accomplished is amazing and overlooked, and we might not have the golden age of CBMs without it.
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You have to check the hyperbole and use context for these outrageously grandiose statements.


Blade didn't invent or invigorate or bring anything new to the genre, visually technically, thematically that wasn't already there, or in production in the industry. It didn't make anyone in the industry suddenly notice Superheroes or comics, most didn't even know or consider him a Superhero. It was a minor success over all. X-Men, Spider-Man blow it out of the universe as significantly putting Superheroes on the map again. (hyperbole now context;))
What it was is a big success for Marvel
And that's where it's important.
What it did was help realize Marvel's working model.
Whose bread and butter was farming out and licensing their actual important characters and franchisees to big studious. X-Men, Spider-Man. etc.
What Blade did was allow Marvel to say - oh we can take this lesser franchise (or any) nobody is asking for and develop it ourselves, and not depend on a big studio.
This brought us Iron-Man and more importantly to the end of Iron-Man and what nobody in the studio system saw coming, Nick Fury going welcome.... to a bigger world.
That hadn't been done for Superheroes.
Suddenly the entire Marvel universe anything from any lesser obscure character was on the table, to exist as part of an ongoing, and growing shared universe.
And it's what the fans wanted.
Marvel could take anything they had, no mater how insignificant, and make it a part of it's growing movie universe, and they have, and it's been going strong sense.
That was the game changer., Blade wasn't even a part of that.
LOL!

Meanwhile the clueless execs at DC/WB were still only looking at Batman & Superman and only things derivative of those two characters as having value, worthy of their attention and efforts.
While Marvel's enormous shared Universe was already exploding on screen.
Their whole library had opened up and had so much value Disney took notice, swept in and bought it all, and it's still going strong!


And yes Blade is a Superhero. ;)
 
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Lantern Venom said:
Avi Arad credits Blade's success for changing the CBM landscape:
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That doesn't mean anything. Blade was a hit movie, sure (for the record, one of my favourite action movies). But the superhero movies that came out afterwards - X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk, Daredevil - they were all being planned long before Blade. X-Men, Spider-Man and Hulk were always going to be movies - whether Blade was a hit or a flop would have made no difference.

I mean, can you imagine Sony cancelling Spider-Man because an R-rated vampire martial arts movie flopped?

Lantern Venom said:
Blade was also partially responsible for landing David Goyer the Batman Begins, and eventually Man of Steel, writing gigs. Thus, it's responsible for altering the fates of both Marvel and DC on film.
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But Batman Begins would have happened with or without Goyer. We all know it's not Goyer who was the vision behind that movie. In fact, Christopher Nolan made the best ever superhero movie (according to many) without Goyer. And the same is true of Man of Steel - it would have happened without Goyer, and it's very much a Zack Snyder movie.
 
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Who cares, Blade appears in comics with, is marketed with and exists with their other supernatural, superpowered, Superheroes, like Ghost Rider, Dr. Strange, Son of Satan(Daimon Hellstrom), etc...
Unless you think they are not superheroes?
He is one of them, fights along side them, like them uses his superpowers to fight evil in that universe.
Which includes, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, mythological, and supernatural genre superheros and supervillains.
Kevin Roegele said:
Blade has superpowers, but he isn't a superhero, he's a vampire slayer.
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So, just because Vampires exist in other fiction doesn't mean he is separate, Vampires exist in the Marvel U.
Kevin Roegele said:
it's based on the character from The Tomb of Dracula, which are horror comics.
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So what, Sons of the Tiger and White Tiger debuted in Deadly Hands of Kung Fu, a Martial Arts magazine, yet are superheroes appearing along side Spider-Man etc.
As with your claim that Star Lord (Quill), who debuted in a mostly sci-fic /sword-&-sorcery magazine, isn't a Superhero.
The lines you've drawn are completley meaningless.
Others arbitrarily draw it at Ghost Rider or Punisher, Quill, Shang-Chi.

We are not talking about how you feel about him.
But how Marvel sees him, uses him and brands him, and we know they include him as one of their superheroes.
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That said, the branding as "superhero" is somewhat becoming dated and fallen out of favor both in and out comics, as a bit childish(although it's still used in their kids toy lines) , in favor of the more generic Hero, Marvel Hero, Comic Hero, Legendary Heroes, Epic Heroes, but that goes for all of them across the board.
 
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Mondragon said:
You have to check the hyperbole and use context for these outrageously grandiose statements.


Blade didn't invent or invigorate or bring anything new to the genre, visually technically, thematically that wasn't already there, or in production in the industry. It didn't make anyone in the industry suddenly notice Superheroes or comics, most didn't even know or consider him a Superhero. It was a minor success over all. X-Men, Spider-Man blow it out of the universe as significantly putting Superheroes on the map again. (hyperbole now context;))
What it was is a big success for Marvel
And that's where it's important.
What it did was help realize Marvel's working model.
Whose bread and butter was farming out and licensing their actual important characters and franchisees to big studious. X-Men, Spider-Man. etc.
What Blade did was allow Marvel to say - oh we can take this lesser franchise (or any) nobody is asking for and develop it ourselves, and not depend on a big studio.
This brought us to the end of Iron-Man and what nobody in the studio system saw coming, Nick Fury going welcome.... to a bigger world.
That hadn't been done for Superheroes.
Suddenly the entire Marvel universe anything from any lesser obscure character was on the table, to exist as part of an ongoing, and growing shared universe.
And it's what the fans wanted.
Marvel could take anything they had, no mater how insignificant, and make it a part of it's growing movie universe, and they have, and it's been going strong sense.
That was the game changer., Blade wasn't even a part of that.
LOL!

Meanwhile the clueless execs at DC/WB were still only looking at Batman & Superman and only things derivative of those two characters as having value, worthy of their attention and efforts.
While Marvel's enormous shared Universe was already exploding on screen.
Their whole library had opened up and had so much value Disney took notice, swept in and bought it all, and it's still going strong!


And yes Blade is a Superhero. ;)
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Blade wasn't ground breaking as a piece of film but it's financial success as earlier stated was a lynch pin for the making of other Marvel movies according to Arad. The creation of Marvel Studios was because they were being stiffed financially as well as wanting more creative control.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/05/01/8375925/

Marvel Comics leaps into movie-making: The comic-book king is tired of taking a safe but small cut from licensing its characters for blockbuster films - so now it's going to make the movies itself.

by Susanna Hamner, Business 2.0 Magazine writer-reporter
June 1, 2006: 3:15 PM EDT

[excerpt of an excellent article on the start of Marvel Studios and the attendant doubt it would work]

His [Arad] early efforts confirmed that he was onto something - and also underscored Marvel's dilemma. The company had been able to license many of its characters to studios, but the sense in Hollywood was that, unlike rival DC Comics's Batman and Superman, Marvel heroes were too complex, conflicted, and fantastical for mass appeal.

A crack in the resistance opened when Arad, after years of trying, finally helped coax New Line Studios into making a low-budget film based on an obscure Marvel line. Blade, released in 1998 and starring Wesley Snipes as a vampire hunting for fellow bloodsuckers, raked in $133 million worldwide at the box office. "Blade was the least likely to succeed," Arad says. "That was the first time it seemed clear to Hollywood that the Marvel franchise was something special."

Yet Arad says Marvel made only $25,000 from the first Blade movie, thanks to lousy licensing terms negotiated years earlier by Perelman lawyers. But the movie's success gave Arad leverage with reluctant studios. Fox, for instance, nearly balked at making the first X-Men film. "They almost didn't buy it as a movie," Arad recalls. "But we told them that if another studio buys it, they're going to look like dorks." Fox bit - and X-Men grossed nearly $300 million globally following its 2000 release. Hollywood jumped on the Marvel bandwagon, pumping out two Men in Black films (total worldwide gross: $1 billion), the Spider-Man megahits, and profitable films based on lesser Marvel characters like Daredevil and the Punisher.

As the hits kept coming, Arad was able to renegotiate some old licensing deals and extract sweeter terms on new ones, but he and Marvel still chafed under the lopsided financial arrangements. It was bad enough that Arad was able to bump licensing fees up to a maximum of only about 10 percent of box office receipts. But studios really cleaned up on ever-increasing sales of DVDs, which now account for more than half of the total profit on a film.

Marvel's share of DVD sales was minuscule - less than a percentage point in most cases. "That was the real impetus" for figuring out a way to dramatically increase the company's take from its characters, says former Marvel Entertainment CEO Allen Lipson. "We were getting such a small share of the DVD revenues. How do you get more?"

After months of furious brainstorming, a Marvel team led by David Maisel, the former top strategic planner at Disney who had been hired as COO of Marvel Studios specifically to guide the process, came up with a handful of options. Last on the list, because it was considered the riskiest, was to create a slate of self-made films.
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TalismanRing said:
Blade wasn't ground breaking as a piece of film but it's financial success as earlier stated was a lynch pin for the making of other Marvel movies according to Arad. The creation of Marvel Studios was because they were being stiffed financially as well as wanting more creative control.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/05/01/8375925/
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Arad isn't the only person in the business that has cited Blade as being a game-changer for CBMs. The old guard, Batman and Superman, were temporarily down for the count. Spider-man, which had bee rumored for years, was stuck in a development vortex. Studios didn't want to go near those type of characters by the late 90s.

Spawn, who was arguably the hottest character in comics in the mid-90s, had tried to generate a franchise a year earlier with many of the same elements: African-American lead, serious tone, and horror elements. When it was only a modest success and it's future was immediately put into question, comic book films were a moribund avenue. The odds against Blade's success at that point were very long, but it did the impossible.
 
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I remember waiting for this teaser to launch and really digging into it after seeing it a bunch, so many interesting shots they tease you with without giving much away. Also the Danny Elfman score really pumps it up a notch.
 
Am a big fan of the film too, but this was beautiful when it landed....

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Love the film and the teaser illustrates quality....

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Mandon Knight said:
Am a big fan of the film too, but this was beautiful when it landed....

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This is definitely my favorite. Logan, Watchmen, Hulk, and Spider-Man 3's teasers are also very good. Spider-Man 3's teaser was probably the last superhero trailer that caught me off guard. Had no idea that it was coming out in 2007, and that it was going to cover the Symbiote storyline. I'll never forget seeing that in front of Superman Returns.
 
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I really like the teasers for both CA: TWS and GOTG.

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The newest Deadpool trailer with Peter probably isn't the absolute best of all time, but it's definitely up there in my eyes.

Surprised this one hasn't been posted yet I don't think. Probably the GOAT.

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