Which studio do you think handles their properties the weakest: Sony, WB or Fox?

[Havok83]

WB. Fox at least tries

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

I have to disagree with the bolded statement. WB churned out Catwoman, Jonah Hex, Green Lantern and (my guilty pleasure) Suicide Squad, four of the worst films of all time. (The only reason I left out Batman & Robin and Superman 3 & 4 is that those were made so long ago.) Those four movies are just as soul-crushingly awful as Fant4stic was. The only difference is that the WB disaster movies don't look quite as cheap as Trank's bomb did. However, the studio managed to squander a lot of A-list talent in those movies, some of whom took years to shake off the stigma of being involved in such dreck.

GL is so hideous that I actually apologized for taking people to see it. I was mortified. It was on TBS the other day and I watched a bit of it to see if it was as bad as I remember. It was worse.

I don't personally think any of those movies were as bad as Fant4stic, but they do come close. I really wasn't thinking through all the WB movies and was focusing more on the relatively recent ones.

When I really think back through everything, WB does have a spectacularly bad record, including this gem:

I still don't think they have anything as bad as Fant4stic, but they have 4 or 5 that are very close, so that's pretty impressive.

 

[Chance Jackson]

The sheer volume of blunders makes WB the donkey of this section of the industry

 

[psylockolussus]

Sony / Columbia

 

[ironwez20]

Sony and WB. Fox tried. WB has all there characters but still fail and Sony is run by hacks and hasn’t put out a good movie since spidey 2. They give avi arad to much power and he screws up time and time again. This venom movie proves that haven’t learned anything.

 

[Xeno]

I don't personally think any of those movies were as bad as Fant4stic, but they do come close. I really wasn't thinking through all the WB movies and was focusing more on the relatively recent ones.

When I really think back through everything, WB does have a spectacularly bad record, including this gem:

I still don't think they have anything as bad as Fant4stic, but they have 4 or 5 that are very close, so that's pretty impressive.

I kind of agree with you, but Green Lantern is as bad as Fant4stic for me because I really love the character. The Green Lantern Corps has the potential to be a great space opera with an epic scale and a rich mythology behind it, but WB went for the quick buck instead of mining all of that. The writer(s) completely got Hal Jordan wrong, too. Green Lanterns are chosen because they're fearless, strong-willed individuals, but Hal was terrified of his powers and gave up as soon as he was challenged. That angers me to this day.

 

[Thör-El]

In the 2000s
Warner Bros > Sony > Marvel Studios > Fox

In the 2010s
Marvel Studios > Fox > Sony > Warner Bros

Fox have upped their game over time and their casting's great but they're still hit and miss. Honourable mentions to First Class, Days of Future Past and Deadpool. Logan was good but not my thing, most of the others were pretty average and X-Men Origins: Wolverine was outright awful.

Sony are capable of making good but not great Spider-Man films but they don't know how to really make the most of Marvel's most popular character. They've made two bad sequels with too many villains/weird sub-plots and their desperation for a shared universe of their own (Venom, Black Cat, Sinister Six spin offs) is getting sad. They made the right call making a deal with Marvel.

Warner Bros had a great Batman origin story followed up by the Dark Knight (still the best comic film ever made) plus a great adaptation of V for Vendetta and a pretty good adaptation of Watchmen in the 2000s. They kicked off the 2010s with the Dark Knight Rises being a letdown and Green Lantern being downright awful and it's all been downhill from there. Wonder Woman was good, Man of Steel was okay but Batman vs Superman, Suicide Squad and Justice League were all disappointingly bad films that wasted huge potential. They have the whole DC universe to adapt, they ought to be rivaling Marvel but instead they've flopped.

 

[Silvermoth]

I would have to say Warner brothers. I’ve never seen any other studio have their entire library, great creatives and blow it all up at the end every single time like they do

 

[BaronZemo]

Plus Supergirl and Constantine. I also think a lot of fans would put Superman Rerturns in there.

 

[Spiderine]

All three studios have done some great films that have become classics in the industry. Paving the way for what Marvel has done today. Lets not forget that. They have also put out some of the worst. All 3 are guilty of this.

WB had the ability and flexibility to build a comic book film empire years ago due to the fact they own exclusive rights to its library of characters. IMO it makes them the most disappointing because the other two FOX and Sony are limited in what they can do. FOX and Sony also have contracts to honor which resulted in rushed films being produced. WB never had any hindrances or time constraints so it stands out by far as the most disappointing.

 

[Mandon Knight]

All three are guilty of miss-managing their properties ad-hoc at any given time, but for sheer 'turning a winning position into a plate of turd-cakes', WB manage above and beyond the call of duty in terms of what they've been blessed with in terms of character, comic heritage and capacity for breadth of universe readily able for transition to screen.

 

[Abudefduf]

Warner Bros. It took them decades to make a movie about the most iconic female superhero ever. That's worse than anything Sony or Fox have ever done.

 

[Flint Marko]

WB is mopping up in this poll

 

[WeaponXCII]

I'm definitely a lot more of a Marvel guy, so I'll narrow it down to Fox and Sony.

My answer is that it depends on how we're using the word "handles". I think that Sony handles their properties as pure movies weaker; conversely, I would say that Fox handles their properties as comic book movies weaker.

 

[DACrowe]

Out of curiosity how so? Are Logan and Deadpool, or for that matter First Class and DOFP, not comic booky enough?

 

[Flint Marko]

He's taking into account their entire filmography and not the handful of films that turned out well.

 

[DACrowe]

He's taking into account their entire filmography and not the handful of films that turned out well.

I mean, maybe, but by "handful" we are talking 5 out of the last 7 superhero movies they made.

 

[Flint Marko]

I mean, maybe, but by "handful" we are talking 5 out of the last 7 superhero movies they made.

By handful I mean 5 out of 16 movies and the buzz on their upcoming films only helps my case.

I don't think this thread is about cherry-picking what movies we do and don't want to take into account.

 

[DACrowe]

By handful I mean 5 out of 16 movies and the buzz on their upcoming films only helps my case.

I don't think this thread is about cherry-picking what movies we do and don't want to take into account.

A little bit, because I think the Fox under Stacey Sneider is a very different studio than the one under Tom Rothman. And we've seen that reflected in the kind of movies that get made, not just superhero movies. Look at also the Planet of the Apes films, more productions like The Revenant and The Post...

I'm getting sidetracked. In this last decade, they've had a solid track record outside of Fan4stic and X-Men: Apocalypse, the latter of which is not nearly as bad IMO as some make it out to be. Either way, how are movies like the Deadpool films, Logan, DOFP, First Class, and hell even The Wolverine not "comic booky?"

 

[WeaponXCII]

He's taking into account their entire filmography and not the handful of films that turned out well.

Exactly.

Out of curiosity how so? Are Logan and Deadpool, or for that matter First Class and DOFP, not comic booky enough?

Deadpool is definitely comic booky enough... First Class maybe just a hair less... DOFP in my opinion gets a demerit for basically sticking to the tired aesthetic of the OT... and Logan, while again, it was absolutely a great movie, if it had a different "paint job", it would be more or less... a sci-fi Western, I want to say.

 

[Flint Marko]

A little bit, because I think the Fox under Stacey Sneider is a very different studio than the one under Tom Rothman. And we've seen that reflected in the kind of movies that get made, not just superhero movies. Look at also the Planet of the Apes films, more productions like The Revenant and The Post...

I'm getting sidetracked. In this last decade, they've had a solid track record outside of Fan4stic and X-Men: Apocalypse, the latter of which is not nearly as bad IMO as some make it out to be. Either way, how are movies like the Deadpool films, Logan, DOFP, First Class, and hell even The Wolverine not "comic booky?"

I’ll leave that question to him but.... again, he didn’t say that those movies that you cherry-picked weren’t comic-booky? Are we about to go in circles?

And, once more, look at New Mutants. Everything about that production screams classic Fox. I’d also like to bring Dark Phoenix into the discussion considering how “grounded” Kinberg wants that space epic to be but we still haven’t seen any footage from it.

 

[FunkMiller]

A Justice League movie made less money than a Doctor Strange movie.


It's WB.


Sony and Fox don't even come close to how badly WB have handled their IP.

 

[psylockolussus]

And why is this is under the Marvel Films section?

 

[Erzengel]

WB has been up and down starting with the Godfather of CBM.

Superman-Superman 2 (Superman 3, IV & Supergirl) to Batman-Batman Returns (BF, B&R, Steel & Catwoman), TDKT (Green Lantern, BvS, SS), WW (JL)

It's like the kid in high school with all the academic skills who doesn't apply themselves.

Fox

Started strong X-Men, X2, then (TLS & Origins), FC-DP, (Apocalypse), DP2 but let's not forget their hat trick with the FF series.

Sony

Spider-Man 1 & 2, (Spider-Man 3-TASM2), Homecoming

However, it's sad they are trying to monopolize on one character with all the movies they want to do.

Out of all of them WB, has had the most swings and misses.

 

[Herofan]

I don't feel particular aversion to any of them (I think some of the aversion to all of them is pretty nitpicky) but I do think Fox is the worst. It started out X-Men well and then made a lot of damaging choices (prequels, timeline-jumping and alternate realities rather than just eventually rebooting, character overexposures, now a self-remake) and did Fantastic Four really badly and with the third film obviously pretty alienating.