The "Golden Age Of Comic Book Films?"

[SPIDERMAN117]

When do you believe this era will start? I personally think Now till 2011 will be the best years that Comic Films will be more "Hits" than miss.

So far this summer's films were all great (Wanted as a movie was good but not great decent enough to pass)

Just think

2008 we had

Iron Man

The Incredible Hulk

Wanted

The Dark Knight

Punisher War Zone and The Spirit are the only films that I hope will seal the deal this year.

 

[The Sarge]

I would consider the golden age of comic book films probably the 1940's when they first started.
you had

Batman
Superman
Captain America
Captain Marvel
The Phantom
The Shadow
The Green Hornet
And probably others I don't know about.

Okay, so the Phantom the shadow and the Green Hornet might not count, because they aren't necessarily "comic book characters" but screw it.

Sure they weren't really movies, but they were pretty close. They helped the idea of live action superheroes and more or less set a lot of the groundwork for the future.

if you don't want to include those, you'd at least have to acknowledge the early 90's/late 80's. We get Batman, Captain America, Howard the duck, Punisher, and (kinda) Fantastic 4.
You can even through in the live action flash TV show, the rocketeer, the shadow and the phantom.
Those ones more or less started to wet our appetite for today's modern comic book films, which really started with blade, then X-men and Spider-man.

 

[Ziggyman]

The 2000's have been great for comic book movies...

 

[Cmill216]

It's hard to really say. For me, at least, it really began with the first X-Men and to a larger extent the first Spider-Man. And it's continued up until now with TDK and Iron Man.

I guess what I'm trying to say then is: this is the decade of the comic book movie.

2000: X-Men
2002: Spider-Man
2003: X2
2004: Spider-Man 2
2005: Batman Begins, Sin City
2007: 300
2008: The Dark Knight, Iron Man

 

[Ziggyman]

It's hard to really say. For me, at least, it really began with the first X-Men and to a larger extent the first Spider-Man. And it's continued up until now with TDK and Iron Man.

I guess what I'm trying to say then is: this is the decade of the comic book movie.

2000: X-Men
2002: Spider-Man
2003: X2
2004: Spider-Man 2
2005: Batman Begins
2008: The Dark Knight, Iron Man

Are those the ones you consider...As the good ones Cmill?

 

[Cmill216]

Are those the ones you consider...As the good ones Cmill?

I have other favorites, but those are the ones generally considered to be the "seminal" superhero films of the time, based on reviews and box office performance. But I do love all those films, as well.

But I also personally enjoyed this year's Hulk movie (a lot), and I think Superman Returns was flawed, but decent enough.

Ouch, but I also forgot 300 and Sin City!

 

[Gilpesh]

The golden age is still in the future.

Because all the good ones so far are just lucky. But now because of Iron Man and TDK... Maybe comic films will get the respect that will bring on the golden age where studios don't just gut comics to make a quick buck but actually work to make the comic movies the best they can.

 

[Ziggyman]

I have other favorites, but those are the ones generally considered to be the "seminal" superhero films of the time, based on reviews and box office performance. But I do love all those films, as well.

But I also personally enjoyed this year's Hulk movie (a lot), and I think Superman Returns was flawed, but decent enough.

Ouch, but I also forgot 300 and Sin City!

Alright...Because I was thinking...Like...There has to be at least 3 times the amount of comic book films out there from how many you listed starting from 2000...

 

[Cmill216]

Alright...Because I was thinking...Like...There has to be at least 3 times the amount of comic book films out there from how many you listed starting from 2000...

Yeah, but would you really expect me to mention Elektra and Catwoman in defense of this being a golden age?

Because all the good ones so far are just lucky.

Huh?

 

[Ziggyman]

Yeah, but would you really expect me to mention Elektra and Catwoman in defense of this being a golden age?

Yes!...Because they were damn good movies!

 

[Ziggyman]

I think we are in the golden age because...What will be next?

In 3-4 years will be getting the set up to and finally the Avengers movie...

But after that...What good is left that is pretty well known...?

In 5-10 years time...I bet all we will be getting are sequels, sequels and more sequels!

 

[cerealkiller182]

Its happening right now

Iron Man and The Dark Knight has both critical and monetary success

The Incredible Hulk was pretty good, and Hellboy 2 was really good (at least IMO)

Wanted was mindless fun albeit poorly adapted

Punisher War Zone and Spirit dont look like anything special, but might prove to be like Wanted.

Marvel established themselves as a studio, DC makes plans to do the same, Dark Horse establishes business relationship with Universal.

Green Lantern, Y: The Last Man, Thor, Captain America, Ant-Man, Avengers, Iron Man 2, Superman reboot, SuperMax, and Green Hornet (plus a few others I'm sure) have all been in some form of preproduction, regardless of how rumors and upstart projects have had a history of falling out, many of them have big plans and show lots of promise.

 

[BizarroAids]

It's hard to really say. For me, at least, it really began with the first X-Men and to a larger extent the first Spider-Man. And it's continued up until now with TDK and Iron Man.

I guess what I'm trying to say then is: this is the decade of the comic book movie.

2000: X-Men
2002: Spider-Man
2003: X2
2004: Spider-Man 2
2005: Batman Begins, Sin City
2007: 300
2008: The Dark Knight, Iron Man

I'd go with what you said. But to me, I'd throw Blade into that mix. Although it came out in the late 90's, it's still a comic movie, and to me started the dark serious tone of comics. But that's just me.

But if you don't want to include that, then yeah, it started with X-Men and sadly, I bet it will end with The Avengers, or an Avengers sequel if one happens.

After that I'm not sure. I definately see in the next several years, alot of Graphic Novels coming out and making not so popular stories into new franchises. Sin City, 300, 30 Days of Night, Wanted...etc. Those are just the beginning of a "new breed" of comic-esque films.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I think we've seen the Golden Age, but we are beginning to enter the Silver Age of comic movies.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

We are probably in it now, both TDK and Hellboy 2 have blown my mind so far this year, and i really enjoyed Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and Hancock, though to a lesser extent than the first 2 i mentioned.

 

[Rich Santoro]

This is it... It is all coming together in a short timeframe.

Superman to Batman took over a decade, and Marvel was absent. Right now is the time.