It's a refreshing summer breeze of a movie, and it jumps to the short
list of superhero movies that I will actually watch again.
Had it held to the strength of its convictions — and it is immensely obvious why it did not — it might have been the best
ending of any superhero movie to date.
Although there has been a
ton of superhero movies on the big screen but these 15 never made it to theaters — and that might be a good thing!
Below, you'll find a comprehensive guide
of superhero movie release dates for every major comic book adaptation on the calendar, going all the way up to the year 2020.
But most of all, this film shows how the
evolution of superhero movies, which has taken us to such great heights, may actually be leading to a dead end.
While it's easy to make a
list of superhero movies no one really asked for, rarely do we see ones that we actually need.
After Blade premiered to critical acclaim and commercial success in 1998, Hollywood squandered two decades with a
glut of superhero movies starring all white leads.
Marvel Studios has announced the next
series of superhero movies including several new films featuring the Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange, and the Inhumans.
As an
era of superhero movies comes to an end, it's time to take one more look at the battle among Pine, Evans, Hemsworth, and Pratt
It's a movie that wants to have a little more fun with the genre, and it succeeds, even if it never really veers far from an increasingly familiar
conventions of the superhero movie.
Birdman serves as a dark satire on everything about the movie biz — the bean counting deliberateness that spawns a
world of superhero movies; the way talent is ignored if it comes from the wrong sources; the potential for critics to abuse their craft and the way such a nomadic industry can affect family.
Even if the movie hadn't explicitly promised one in its after - the - credits teaser, Ryan Reynolds» big, gooey spitball into the face
of superhero movies made enough money in its first weekend to justify a whole franchise.
Lower than expected box office for DC Comics» «Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice» earlier this spring spurred some speculation that audiences may be
tiring of superhero movies.
This dark, grizzled thriller is a violent punch to the
face of superhero movie convention - and a moving end to Hugh Jackman's run as Wolverine.
The top ten men continue to out - earn their female counterparts by a huge margin — $ 488.5 million compared with just $ 172.5 million — a disparity Forbes attributed in part to the
preponderance of superhero movies and action blockbusters that offer few starring roles for women.
Elsewhere, the Gotham Independent Film Awards named Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman best film ahead of Boyhood, with Michael Keaton winning best actor for his turn as a faded former
star of superhero movies vying to make a comeback.
From the get go you know you're entering a world of absolute brand association, so if you're
sick of superhero movies you'll want to like it a lot less than you do.
Amid garbled claims that the corporation that owns Marvel had somehow paid off critics to trash the recent
crop of superhero movies from their longstanding rival DC, the page organisers encouraged the use of hashtags like #DownWithDisney and #DCOverMarvel as social media rallying points.
As suggested above, exactly how much you'll enjoy Deadpool 2 has a lot to do with how much you dug its predecessor, an okay movie that shattered the fourth wall and rifled through pop culture references in a way that, irrespective of its otherwise puerile humor, undercut a moment in the life
cycle of superhero movies with gleeful specificity.
«There haven't been a lot
of superhero movies with female leads and there have been even fewer — if any — that were truly funny.
Fresh off of A Wrinkle In Time, Ava DuVernay is heading back to space for another wild sci - fi adventure — and this one is also
sort of a superhero movie.
Romance isn't exactly something Deadpool has really concerned himself with over his comics career, so it will be interesting (to say the least) to see how they work a romantic story into Deadpool's particular
brand of superhero movie.
Sure, that may seem like a specific record, but most tickets are presold on Fandango and the sheer
number of superhero movies hitting the market means there are a lot of properties to compete with.
In the weeks leading up to the release of 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron, interviews with Joss Whedon revealed that he was very happy to be getting
out of the superhero movie game.
The latter are shorter and more structured than their Con counterpart, but manages to leave a similar impression — namely, that Man of Steel aims to offer a nuanced and serious take on the Superman mythos, befitting the contemporary
age of superhero movies (and influenced by DC Comics» «New 52 ″ reboot).