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I greatly disagree with this, they have enough material for hundreds of movies if not more. There are plenty of comic storylines out there and all the alternate universe stuff could be cool as well.
Yeah and that's cool about multiple alternate universes, but it's still going to be Superhero fights Bad Guy, Bad Guy comes back to defeat Superhero, Superhero finds their strength to fight the Bad Guy again, Superhero saves the day...Superhero dies, someone else takes the mantle and does the same thing over and over again, then they'll die and someone else will take the mantle or they'll turn into an alien or a clone or they'll just get a gritty-grim reboot for a "What If?" scenario, Bad Guy becomes Good Guy...
Cynical, yes. But it's true and only those who love superhero comics can get into it, to which I'm glad they love whatever they love and should defend their passion, just sayin' it's a formula that will get old except for the kids and family fair, which is what Marvel is made for and very little room left for any tragedy and darkness and Marvel doesn't have to dab into that, I just hate how over-blown and over-saturated the H-wood market is with this stuff that makes the industry way too damn desperate to stay afloat which it will for the next decade, then it'll run out of ideas again and probably sink into the ground where it belongs. Not blaming the Superhero genre, honest I'm not, I blame over-saturated marketing and how under-whelming the experiences can get because they get over-hyped and I'll fight anyone who wants to crack down on me for having too much or too little expectations for a thing.
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As for Marvel being all over the film makers, thats the exact reason their movies all keep the same tone and fit into the same universe. They have been doing it since their first one and it's the reason you can have a serious action/spy flick like CA2 and a goofy action comedy like GotG and believe the all fit into the same universe. Marvel keeps tight control over plot points, characters, and tone in all their movies and it seems to be working out for them.
Iron Man 1 & 3, Incredible Hulk, Thor 1 & 2, Captain America 1 & 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy were incredible movies that had a lot of fun from the filmmakers making them because they didn't have too tight a leash on them while they were making them, but of course taking hints from the studio to keep them good and interesting and faithful to the source material whatever there is (to be honest nobody really gave that much of a shit about Iron Man because of the racist caricature villains he had, Captain America was a werewolf, Hulk's only interesting story was Planet Hulk and comic book Thor was not interesting as movie Thor and Guardians of the Galaxy no one has heard of it because of how obscure and out there it is with its space stuff) but still Marvel had a good run going on letting film makers have as much creative freedom as they could.
Nowadays? Joss Whedon has left the scene because he was getting way too much pressure from the studio to just make it like the first movie all over again with just slight differences even though he wanted it to be great and wanted to spend more time on it but nope, Edgar Wright could have given us an interesting Ant-Man but because he and the studio had a falling out because of "creative differences" he also left, even Kevin Fiege is thinking of leaving as producer because he's probably getting tired of doing the same stuff over and over again which just happens in making projects like this (see cast and filmmakers for the Sam Raimi Spiderman movies)...
Because of this sudden change, which i think was caused by Iron Man 3's controversy with
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the Mandarin not being the real Mandarin
Marvel doesn't want to risk a single thing and keep every movie locked down so their devoted fans will keep paying to see more and more of their stories and super heroes the way the fans want to watch it, which is a double-edged sword of course, it means that fans of the comics will remain devoted to Marvel with everything they serve them, but everyone else who just wanted to have fun watching big dumb loud comic book movies will feel alienated and tired of the same comic book cliches and eventually turn on the genre in favor of other things which is how human nature works.
Not to say I won't go watch these, if I'm interested, it's just going to get harder and harder for these comic book movies to keep up with general audiences and the fans of the work, it's a hard balancing act to keep up and Age of Ultron showed that while it has interesting character flesh-outs, but a very under-written villain I was hoping was going to surprise me, but instead it was a fun movie that was good but not the best sequel nor is it super fantastic and memorable as I hoped it would be while keeping low expectations, but it still wasn't as amazing as everyone else thought it was.
I'm also starting to notice that Marvel is having a falling out with fleshing out their villains, Malekith had an interesting design but was rather one-note of a villain who just wanted to do bad for bad sake, Whiplash and Sam Rockwell's villain in Iron Man 2 were both thrown under the bus rather than being interesting, the villain in Antman was pretty much the same character as Jeff Bridges' Iron Man who is just kind of there, Loki could have used a little more tragedy but he got to stay around because he's a fan favorite which is fine I like the character enough but it's just because Tom Hiddleston is fucking sexy and just absolutely loves being in the role, Ultron I feel has fallen victim the most Joss Whedon originally had Avengers 2 at 3 hours which sounds like he had more depth with Ultron's character that could have become something interesting and sympathetic as a villain who was trying to help humanity but then realizes that humanity IS the ultimate evil and that could have been great but nope Marvel didn't want that because it would cost too much time in the theater and I guess that would have been too dark for younger viewers which is rather restrained and makes a compelling story seem more less compelling.
Ronan the Accuser, while kind of under-written, is more consistent even if he could've used some fleshing out. Shame Marvel can't make their Villains as interesting as their Heroes.
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DC hasn't tried any variation yet because we only have MoS and the yet to be seen BvS, but with suicide squad it looks like they're letting some fun in.
WB doesn't really know what it wants to do with the DCMU the behind the scenes stuff with BvS has been going crazy and cramming in so much stuff into it that it could become one of the most craziest and successful disasters yet to come, they'll have a good run and by the next two decades superheroes will start to descend into obscurity or become tired.
Why not adapt other comic books or graphic novels that aren't just about superheroes? Now that would be great because there's more money in niche markets, which H-wood and every other entertainment industry is not interested in which is sad and depressing, but when that day comes and it WILL come when the industry crashes let's remember that the lack of quality and in risky niche titles is what ultimately killed it in addition to the manipulation of movie-goers to just buy into whatever mediocre, safe, dumb movies there are made by corporations, not filmmakers, corporations.
But who knows. What do I know, right? I'm just not a real fan of superhero stuff except for Watchmen, Watchmen is great, both the movie and the graphic novel, none of those shitty spin-off comics that those idiots bought into.