Which is the best active scifi blockbuster franchise?

[DA_Champion]

The MCU is a franchise and is regarded as such by pretty much everyone. So it definitely fits the bill.

Aside from that, I didn't want the votes for iron man and captain america to be split, it's the same fan base.

 

[psylockolussus]

X-Men! hands down!

-I like the Hunger Games, but I always feel like there's an end date for it and it will end next year.
-I'm not a big fan of The Amazing Spider-Man films and Transformers films
-I'm not a fan of James Bond. The lead role has been played by different actors and I'm not really sure if Casino Royale was a reboot or not.
-Planet of the Apes only has two films (reboot series) right now, I liked them both but X-Men are just more engaging to me
-I like Star Trek too but I prefer the characters in X-Men

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I can't wait until X-Men RI5E!

 

[SuperFerret]

RI5E of the Planet of the X

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

5ear of a X Planet

 

[SuperFerret]

I haven't voted yet. I need to see the new Apes movie, but I'm expecting that to take my vote.

 

[JP]

Apes, X-Men, and Hunger Games.

 

[Goopy Snake]

I think Alien deserves mention. Prometheus is a profoundly misunderstood and underappreciated movie, dismissed by an audience that is used to having every question the story raises answered in two hours.

 

[DA_Champion]

I think Alien deserves mention. Prometheus is a profoundly misunderstood and underappreciated movie, dismissed by an audience that is used to having every question the story raises answered in two hours.

I didn't include it because I'm not sure if the franchise is active.

 

[Immortalfire]

I don't consider Bond, X-Men, Hunger Games or Spidey to be sci-fi.

 

[Goopy Snake]

I didn't include it because I'm not sure if the franchise is active.

http://io9.com/michael-fassbender-confirms-prometheus-2-is-a-go-1574765130

 

[The Endless]

I think Alien deserves mention. Prometheus is a profoundly misunderstood and underappreciated movie, dismissed by an audience that is used to having every question the story raises answered in two hours.

Maybe so. But that doesn't excuse the characters conveniently being written like idiots to service the story.

 

[DA_Champion]

http://io9.com/michael-fassbender-confirms-prometheus-2-is-a-go-1574765130

Ridley Scott is attached to a lot of movies.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

The MCU is a franchise and is regarded as such by pretty much everyone. So it definitely fits the bill.

Is a continuity that collects individual franchises.

A franchise is a series of movies featuring the same characters or concepts, Thor The Dark World features none of the same characters or concepts as The Incredible Hulk so they are separate franchises. There's also the name factor, a franchise almost always has similiar titles with the character or franchise name in them (Spider-Man, Star Wars, Terminator, Planet/Apes, X-Men ect...) but Thor The Dark World in addition to not featuring anything Hulk has it's own title-ing separate & different from that other franchise.

If a person says they like the Captain America franchise that means they are referring to the two Cap movies, not them plus seven other non-Cap movies.

There's too many movies about different characters across the board for them all to be considered one franchise instead of a collection.

If you count them all as one then the Alien movies and Predator movies should be considered one franchise and the Tarantino movies all one franchise as they share a continuity. The reason they are not is that even though they share a continuity it doesn't make them all about the same characters or concepts so therefore they are viewed as individuals. The same should happen with the various MCU movies as they each are a franchise that tells an ongoing story about one set of characters, not of all of the others too

 

[DA_Champion]

Is a continuity that collects individual franchises.

A franchise is a series of movies featuring the same characters or concepts, Thor The Dark World features none of the same characters or concepts as The Incredible Hulk so they are separate franchises. If a person says they like the Iron Man franchise that means the Iron Man trilogy not the trilogy plus five other non-Iron Man movies. There's too many movies about different characters across the board for them all to be considered one franchise instead of a collection.

If you count them all as one then the Alien movies and Predator movies should be considered one franchise and the Tarantino movies all one franchise as they share a continuity. The reason they are not is the common sense that even though they share a continuity it doesn't make them all about the same characters or concepts therefore they are individuals.

The predalien franchise was the product of a shotgun wedding done in desperation and they're divorced now. I'm mot sure who took all the money in court.

The Tarantino movies don't get crossover movies like avengers ... though that sounds like a good idea.

 

[The Endless]

Not even just Tarantino's own movies. Ray Nicolette from Jackie Brown was in Soderberg's Out of Sight.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

And some of Rodriguez' movies, usually characters that started with writing from Tarantino.

The Tarantino movies don't get crossover movies like avengers ... though that sounds like a good idea.

Agreed, but the Avengers is the only one that really crossed them over, the rest operate individually for the most part so rather than be viewed as one franchise they should be viewed as separate ones that are part of a collective continuity.

A person wouldn't leave a Thor movie thinking it was a great continuation of the Iron Man movies as they are different stories about different characters and concepts, I.E different franchises.

 

[The Endless]

They are set in the same universe though. It's like a series of spin offs. The Wolverine solo films are still part of the X franchise correct? The Star Wars solo films will still be part of the Star Wars franchise yea? It's kinda the same thing.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

I'd consider the Wolverine movies as separate. They are spin-offs set in the same universe but they aren't about the X-Men so they aren't part of the "X-Men" series. If you lifted em out it wouldn't really change the X-Men series. Same as taking out Thor and Thor the dark world wouldn't change the Iron Man trilogy as they are separate stories.

For me unless its about the same characters (X-Men team, Skywalker family, main character and supporting characters) or the same concept (Final destination, apes taking over the world ect..) then it's not the same franchise.

For instance I wouldn't class Spider-Man and Guardians of the galaxy as the same comic franchise even though they are made by the same company and share the same continuity. They're two separate franchises as Guardians isn't about Spider-Man and vice versa.

 

[The Endless]

Guardians is made by Marvel, not Sony. And with it featuring another Infinity Gem and the big bad from Avengers, i think it's safe to consider it the same franchise as it's more than just superficial elements interacting. The big bad from Avengers is the big bad in Guardians. It's like a sequel in a way.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

I referred to Spider-Man and Guardian comics not movies being separate franchises even though they share continuity and are made by the same company.

Basically the way I see it is Thor The Dark World isn't about Iron Man, Iron Man isn't about Captain America, Captain America The First Avenger isn't about The Incredible Hulk which isn't about Thor which isn't about Captain America and so on

Whereas every Hunger Games is about Katniss, Every Transformers about Optimus and his Autubots, every Star Trek about The crew of the Enterprise, every Star Wars about the Skywalker family and so on

If the MCU was one franchise then every movie would be about the same characters or same concept, but they aren't, they each are about different characters so each are separate franchises.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I don't consider Bond, X-Men, Hunger Games or Spidey to be sci-fi.

I can understand Bond and maybe Spider-man but why not X-men or Hunger Games?

 

[Evil Twin]

I don't consider Bond, X-Men, Hunger Games or Spidey to be sci-fi.

I can sort of understand the others, but how is Hunger Games which is set in a future dystopia extrapolating reality competition television as a central motif, not science fiction? How is it substantially different than Logan's Run?

It's not Hard Science Fiction, but then neither are most of these listed including the MCU, but science fiction for the sake of social allegory is not some unaccepted concept.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

Hunger games is Dystopia IMO. That's a genre of Sci-Fi

 

[DA_Champion]

All of those franchises require fictional science and technology to tell their stories. These are all (soft) science fiction.