Superheroes: How They Ruined Summer Movies

http://www.filmbuffonline.com/2008/06/open-letter-to-entertainment-weeklys.html

Ta-da. It had to be posted.

 

that guy is a tool.

 

I'm proud to have never hit a human being with my car.

Today, I'm willing to be proud of something else.


(BTW, I liked the Open Letter, but I didn't appreciate the stab at Cuba Gooding, Jr.)

-TNC

 

That's one of the biggest ownings I've seen in quite sometime.



The guy who wrote that original article is such a moron.

So far most super hero movies are big summer events...just like T2, Jurassic Park and Armageddon.

I think he just doesn't want to seem like or be a so called "nerd" for liking films based on comics.

 

i would gladly pay $5 to travel in to the future 7 days, see the box office results for the hulk, and consequently watch him dig his head out of his ass.

also, nice rebuttal letter.

 

I hate that the guy has an issue with TDK because it's the "sixth Batman movie in the past 20 years." So? Motherfrakking Saw is having it's fifth movie in the last five years. Dont take issue with six films in 20 years, asswipe.

 

Owned

about Saw.

 

Yeah, surfing IMDB and looked at the articles that they linked to. One was the first article and the second was the open letter I linked to. I couldn't even finish the first article because I knew it was just crap and a random hit at comic books and their movie adaptations for almost no reason.

Then read the second one and laughed my ass off at how much that guy just rips him to shreds.

 

I came to this thread hoping for some succinct and perhaps thought-provoking view on possible negative effects of the comic-book movie phenomenon.

No such luck. Just walls (and walls) of myopic text.

 

And a hypocritical one, too; Watchmen is just as much a superhero movie as the ones he vent against in his article.

 

Superheroes have just as much right to the summer box office as anyone else.

And for the record, 1983 did have a superhero film, it was called "Superman III" (if you read the article, CN claims that 1983 was "a paradise lost" for not featuring any superhero films, which as we know is simply not true).

 

This rebuttal gets a thumb-up from me.

 

The article wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't just completely about the guy not liking comic movies and some facts being so baltantly off, Daredevil, Punisher and Ghost Rider were spring movies. Hellboy grossed a hell of a lot more the $17 mil, Judge Dredd and The Shadow both came out before the recent comic boom. Anyone could see Catwoman (and Judge Dredd) had horrible movie written all over it from the previews, you get no sympathy for paying for those crapfests. Plus some of his favorites are Armageddon and Indepence Day, while saying there were too many effects in Spidey, Armageddon and Indepence Day were nothing but effects.

If you're gonna rip comic movies at least do it right and provide good backup to your statements.

 

The article writer has a point.

the traditional summer action flick has been replaced with the traditional summer superhero film cross over and the odd rebooted franchise all pretty much appealing to already established fan bases.

It would be nice to get an action flick with no real correlation to anything. I wouldn't mind another 'matrix' sometime soon that i can go in watch and get blown away by without thinking how close it is to its comic origins.

and the whole 'if you don't like them, don't watch them' option doesn't count because the money studios are throwing at these comic book productions is really quite scary. you could get two decent action flicks out of it.

anywho, after an avengers and a justice league movie, i see the genre dieing with perhaps only a few small independant comic book films hitting the screens which ultimately I don't mind because it helps advertise their product but I'd be happy if I never saw another marvel/dc superhero film for another 25/30 years.

 

not mention 007 and harry potter lol

 

As long as the films are fun and of quality then I'm all for it.Whether it be a Comic book movie or not.So what if The Dark Knight is the sixth bat film in 20 years as long as it entertain me?

 

I agree . If the guy wants to complain he should mention the quality of bad films in general that the public is treated to such as Indy 4 , Strangers, etc. And tired remakes . Alvin and the Chimpmunks anyone?

At least Ironman, Spiderman 2 and Batman Begins tried to tell a story. I wonder if he thinks the Lord of the Rings saga was a waste . As for some one who's been going to summer films almost 20 years....I just turned 29, I know the summer expirence hasn't changed that much.

There is more Superhero and fantasy now , but there is also more Sci Fi, Romantic comedy shtick , artsy Indie flixs, remakes of TV shows , and everything in between.

I rather see a good superhero flick every weekend then see a crappy non fantasy film every week. For me it's the quality.

If the film is about people in tights with powers but the story is really good and the film is entertaining I'll see it. I do agree with him on one thing though.

I do wanna see how they've done Alan Moore's Watchmen.

 

Guy sounds like a tool. He doesn't have to see them if he doesn't want to (unless it's his job to review them) and while I agree many superhero movies suck (as he is first to point out the crappy ones, but never the good ones. He mentions Lee liking the X-movies but doesn't talk about Bryan Singer's successful efforts, but those of hack-Ratner), most summer movies suck as a rule of thumb as well.

"The great 1990s," eh?

-Indepednence Day (just as schmaltzy as Spider-Man without the depth or interesting characters)
-Twister
-Volcano
-Dante's Peak
-Mission: Impossible 2
-Godzilla
-The Mummy Returns (and the first one as well depending who you are)
-Lethal Weapon 3
-Rush Hour
-Armageddon (you diss Spidey and Iron Man, but like this?!)
-Con Air
-The Rock
-Bad Boys
-Pearl Harbor (It's 2001, so its applicable)
-The Lost World
-Jurassic Park III
-The Patriot
-Shaft remake
-Batman Forever and Batman & Robin (the true lowest point for superhero movies was in his 'heyday')
-Men in Black II
-Charlie's Angels
-Speed II: Cruise Control
-The Shadow (a 1990s, paradise lost film)
-The Phantom
-Judge Dredd

In fact I find that movies in the 1990s as a whole were not as good as movies of this decade, mostly because the independent market has become mainstream and to direct their new franchise hits studios are hiring directors from that world to their greatest successes for the summer movies (Bryan Singer, Sam Raimi, Christopher Nolan, Alfonso Curon, Jon Favreau, etc.) instead of the MTV music video directors turned filmmakers that this guy seems to flaunt over.

 

...I liked those...

 

Hey I admit I put on that list Rush Hour and The Rock which I enjoy, butt these are movies of very little quality and as bad or worse than any superhero movie in this decade, but he seems to only remember in rose-tinted glasses the movies of his youth.

 

True. I admit, MIB 2, Charlie's Angels, Twister and Batman Forever arent exactly the greatest.

 

From your post it seems to me that you dislike superhero movies.

 

And of the 1980s, when a franchise "meant so much more, I would like to add:

-Jaws 2
-Jaws 3
-Jaws the Revenge
-Rocky III
-Rocky IV
-Rocky V
-Rambo: First Blood Part II
-Rambo III
-Die Hard 2
All the Halloween and Friday the 13th sequels
-Superman III
-Superman IV
-Alien 3 (moving into the 1990s)
-Alien: Resurrection

He seems to only remember the good (and defends the bad i.e. Independence Day and Armageddon) of old.

 

Wow, this son of a thousand ****es can kiss my ass