Marvel vs. WB vs. Fox vs. Sony

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Which company has been doing the best job with their feature films and why?

 

[Kane52630]

*predicts future posts*

 

[Aesop Rocks]

After Guardians, I think we know which studio.

 

[JP]

I love 5/7 X-Men movies. I love 5/10 MCU movies.

 

[Kane52630]

I love lamp.

 

[The Endless]

Marvel pretty easily. They are just so consistent and 3 of their movies (Avengers, The Winter Soldier and Guardians) are at the tip top of the genre, in modern times at least.

Fox have x2, First Class, DoFP. But they also have the F4 movies, Last Stand and Wolverine Origins, which are far, far worse than anything Marvel has done.

I will always love the first Raimi Spider-Man. Spider-Man 2 is also great. But then they've made 3 bad movies on the trot.

Warners has Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Excellent movies. But it also has Green Lantern, which is quite comfortably one of THE worst comic book movies ever made. Rises and Man of Steel have great things but are overall mediocre and not very fun to watch.

So overall, all of these studios have done great things. Amazing things really when you consider films The Dark Knight, Days of Future Past, Spider-Man 1 and 2, Avengers, The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy. It's a fantastic time to be a comic book fan.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

This thread won't last long.

Imo all have made good movies and all have made bad ones.

Technically though according to the actual poll question it's only between Fox and WB as they've released hundreds of movies so would win by sheer quantity.

 

[JP]

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So overall, all of these studios have done great things. Amazing things really when you consider films The Dark Knight, Days of Future Past, Spider-Man 1 and 2, Avengers, The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy. It's a fantastic time to be a comic book fan.

Now let's close this thread.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

Your avatar cracks me up every time

We share the same X-Men franchise ratio

 

[Fincher]

They've all had their ups and downs, but I went with Fox.

 

[LizardMan07]

Got to be Marvel, I think all the other 3 studios have made a rotten movie (GL, TASM2, FF)

 

[GoodYoung]

If we are talking about quality then it's gotta be Fox. They have two great movies, three cbm masterpieces, one average movie and one terrible film.
Sony only has one good Spidey film
MS is bad and their new movie doesn't change anything. Guardians is pretty average superhero movie and not even the best cbm of the year. I can't even say what makes it so different from movies like Thor lol. Although they do have some really good movies like Iron Man and Cap 2 but it's only 2/10 of their movies.
WB has Dark Knight ( which is one of my favorites) and Batman Begins.

So:
1) Fox
2) WB
3) Marvel
4) Sony.

 

[JEM]

This debate wil not end well ....

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

Agreed about Fox and the X-Men franchise, unfortunately most of their other CBMs were poorly received.

Strictly X-Men vs Marvel, I give the gong to X-Men, but all of Fox vs Marvel and Marvel takes the gold.

Sony imo have only had one truly bad Spider-Man movie, but their Ghost Riders weren't very good.

Warner have a lot of good movies but a lot of cheap and dated movies too.

Marvel have a small number of greats, a handful of goods and the rest poor.

All in my opinion of course. I'm abstaining from the vote however.

 

[Erzengel]

What I consider to be home run or at least "triples" to use a baseball analogy for each Studio:

Marvel: Iron Man, Marvel's The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy

WB: Superman and Superman 2, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight

Fox: X-Men, X-2, X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past

Sony: Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2

It's hard to include WB because Superman 1 and Superman 2 are a little dated but still some of my favorites. WB's problem has essentially has been being a 1 trick pony. First Superman then Batman. I liked Man of Steel but I know there's a some division about it. And it's not strong enough to stand with my aforementioned movies.

So essentially, it's Marvel vs. Fox.

The edge for me goes to Marvel and here's my reasoning:

1. I feel the top 4 of Marvel beats the top 4 of Fox. Granted I think Marvel had the benefit of the edge by starting later and having more of the resources than Fox did initially with X-Men.

2. The diversity of the characters. Iron Man and RDJ. Captain America: The Winter Soldier with Evans and the Guardians of the Galaxy with Pratt, Saldanda, Cooper, Diesel and Batista. I was reading X-Men in the 90s and was a huge Cyclops fan (still am). I have grown increasingly tired of Wolverine 1 through 6. However, I still enjoyed Days of Future Past. That's why I'm hoping Apocalypse doesn't have Wolverine in it or at least just a cameo.

3. Even after the top 4 of each and obviously Marvel does have an advantage of different characters etc and more movies. But, even the good movies one step down, I'd give to Marvel such as Thor and Captain America over the Wolverine. And I did like the Wolverine.

4. Lastly no Marvel movie is as bad as X-Men: The Last Stand or definitely not as bad as X-Men: Wolverine Origins.

Marvel has an unfair advantage with the diversity however while I'm sure there are division among all the movies, Marvel has had consistency with their last 9 movies. I feel WB and Sony have stubbed their toes in between and Fox really had to turn it around after Wolverine Origins.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I'd say each studio has one home run: SM2, DOFP, TDK, and Avengers.

But Marvel has the most triples: IM, Cap 2 and GotG.

Fox would be a close second but the FF movies, X3 and Origins drags them down quite a bit.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

1) Marvel
2) Fox
3) WB
4) Sony

I don't see these rankings changing much in the next couple of years.

 

[Marvin]

I'd say each studio has one home run: SM2, DOFP, TDK, and Avengers.

But Marvel has the most triples: IM, Cap 2 and GotG.

Fox would be a close second but the FF movies, X3 and Origins drags them down quite a bit.

If that's what you count as triples then you must not be entirely familiar with WB's cbm history.


I vote for which ever studio made Blade.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

Disney. WB has everything at their disposal and are only making mistakes not making films at least every 2 years, when in reality they should have films coming out every year. Delaying BvS also doesn't help.

Fox's superhero movies usually do not gross higher than $500 mill, so DOFP is exceptional.

And Sony just needs to collaborate with Disney.

 

[The Endless]

Let's not make this a stupid studio war thread. All these studios have great movies, and bad movies. All my favorites come from Fox though, so that would be my choice.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

If that's what you count as triples then you must not be entirely familiar with WB's cbm history.

Okay, so what WB SH movies would you count as triples?

 

[metaphysician]

WB really shouldn't get credit for the old Superman and Batman movies. There is essentially no continuity between the people who brought us those, and the people bringing us the current generation of movies.

 

[Marvin]

WB really shouldn't get credit for the old Superman and Batman movies. There is essentially no continuity between the people who brought us those, and the people bringing us the current generation of movies.

If you want to get into the minutia of creative continuity then one might need to get more specific with this thread title and it's dates. The people making DCCU films aren't the same people that made GL or Jonah Hex etc. Unlike with MCU, where it's vary much Kevin and Co and their exercising their consistent creative quality.

Okay, so what WB SH movies would you count as triples?

I'd probably start with Superman and Batman. Again, depends on your definition of 'triple'

 

[FeedOnATreeFrog]

I don't watch studios, I watch movies.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I don't watch studios, I watch movies.