Is cinema finally ready to move past comic book movies as the primary driver?

[Neuromancer]

No

 

[Ol’Otis]

Bring back good action flicks. Die Hard, Predator, Speed, Terminator, Point Break, The Matrix, The Fugitive, The Rock, Con Air etc. If the quality is there, audiences will show up.

I was just watching Heat
Like when was the last time we had a dope ass action film?

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

I was just watching Heat
Like when was the last time we had a dope ass action film?

I mean...John Wick 4 was 2 years ago and made $400mm...and everyone one of those makes $100mm more than the last one

 

[King Static X]

I mean...John Wick 4 was 2 years ago and made $400m...and everyone one of those makes $100m more than the last one

Exactly. There have been plenty of dope non-superhero action films in the last decade. I don't know what he's talking about lol.

 

[summwunn]

I was just watching Heat
Like when was the last time we had a dope ass action film?

. . . in a different era - this would have been one of them movies like Raid 2 where the fights start breaking out in the hallway when you trying to leave . .. let alone the gladiator sessions in the parking lot .. . .

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Exactly. There have been plenty of dope non-superhero action films in the last decade. I don't know what he's talking about lol.

The mission impossible movies are fukkin great and make a boatload of money lmao...top gun maverick, i could continue and continue...'dope ass action' is maybe the most fed genre there is

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Wolverine and Deadpool just made over a billion dollars as an R rated movie.

once Fantastic 4 drops and the MCU starts picking up momentum again with Spider-Man 4 and Avengers, X-Men, etc. we’re right back where we started.

 

[summwunn]

I was just watching Heat
Like when was the last time we had a dope ass action film?

 

[Womb Raider]

Comic book movies ain’t dead, nikkas just scared




They need to stop making bs movies like Eternals and Captain Marvel. Nobody asked for them shyts. Nobody even wanted Capt America 4 aka Incredible Hulk 2. We want the main stars of Marvel, everything else can be crossover tv shows.

 

[Jazzy B.]

This is a dumb thread.

Doomsday and Spider-Man 4 will be hits next year

In 2022 - Doctor Strange 2, Thor 4 and Wakanda Forever were successful.

In 2023 - Guardians 3 was a hit.

In 2024 - Deadpool and Wolverine was a hit.

The recent movies that are struggling - Cap 4, Ant Man, Marvels required the viewer to watch Disney + shows and were not established main characters.

 

[Jaguar93]

Superman

 

[summwunn]

. . let us pray . . .

 

[Jazzy B.]

Average comic book movies can't put up crazy numbers like that anymore. I get in a few years we'll have another Avengers cycle but it's very clear that audiences are waning on the garden variety of these style of movies when say a decade ago you could pluck almost any character from a comic book series in Marvel and give them a movie and have great numbers.

What are great numbers?

You’re talking like every MCU flick was making $1B+

 

[the next guy]

Can you present another type of film that can have a $200m budget and a $2B box office? If you can, i'm sure that Hollywood will gladly move in that direction.

Cartoon.

Why can't they adapt Gundam Wing or something? Kids from the 90s know it and they would take their own kids to the theatres.

 

[the next guy]

No because talent is at an all time low. There is no reason why De Niro should be still working at his age.