Which Movie Do You Think Really Kicked Off The Superhero Hype?

[mr.africa]

X-men was a serious movie
It's X-men cause it was both commercial and critical success all across the board.

spiderman got good reviews in People magazine and FHM
i could be wrong, but that's how i remember it.

 

[Spliff]

Why ain't Blade get his due in the thread

Blade was a raw movie, but it didn't kick off the superhero hype-train as we've been accustomed to.

You didn't leave Blade saying "When they get the Marvel big dogs on here its a WRAP!" You left sayin Wesley Snipes a bad muthafukka.

This debate is really between X-men and Spider-Man. The excitement for whats to come was astronomical after those movies, specifically Spider-Man. Viewers would've given their left kidney to see Venom back then. Well, until Sony shoehorned and botched him.

 

[Silkk]

Blade

nikkas gotta be super militant at all times

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

I feel like there's not really a universally 'correct' answer and that people's ages are gonna play a part in how they vote in this poll too

 

[Bigbigguy]

Avengers

We definitely wouldn't be getting the volume of flicks we do now if that didn't kill it at the box office

 

[Rekkapryde]

It was spider-man 1 that set things in full swing. Breaking crazy records, had the hero song as it’s theme playing everywhere. When that movie dropped it was a special time.

Voted DArk Knight, but it absolutely was Spidey 1.

 

[SunZoo]

IMO it went in stages.

OG Superman was the spark, Keaton's batman kept the fire burning, the later films in the batman franchices set the genre back.

Blade brought legitimacy back to big time comic movies.
X-Men officially starts the "hype" and Spiderman 1 & 2 sends the shyt into over-drive.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Iron Man

 

[Drew Wonder]

Blade was definitely influential but let’s be real, the majority of the people who watched it probably never heard of the character before or read the comic. So it was different than something like X Men and Spider-Man who had recognizable characters who transcended comics. When Blade came out the only reason I knew who he was was because of his appearance in the 90s Spiderman cartoon lol.

So Blade should get props but to me it’s more in the vein of a comic book movie like the Crow where it gets fans off the strength of just being a well executed movie, not because the source material was recognizable. X Men and Spider-Man showed execs that an audience can come in just off the strength of the characters being popular. And if the actual movie happens to be good, that’s the icing on the cake. I feel like before X Men and Spider-Man the belief was that only a Batman and Superman flick could sell off namebrand alone

 

[FrederickDouglas]

X-Men made 54 million opening weekend (2 million more than Batman Forever)

It then went on to make less than 300 million

Spider-Man was the first movie EVER (regardless of genre) to make over 100 million opening weekend. That record wasn’t broken until four years later.

It also made over 800 million dollars.

Without OG Spider-Man, there would be no MCU.

 

[Days of Future Piff]

IMO it went in stages.

OG Superman was the spark, Keaton's batman kept the fire burning, the later films in the batman franchices set the genre back.

Blade brought legitimacy back to big time comic movies.
X-Men officially starts the "hype" and Spiderman 1 & 2 sends the ____ into over-drive.

Basically this. The original Superman was legendary, and Tim Burton's Batman was a hit. The Batman sequels killed the genre dead until Blade/X-men/Spider-man resurrected everything. Both X-men and Spider-man fell off horribly with their third movies but Iron Man and The Dark Knight came out just in time to push things to the next level, setting the stage for the Avengers/Deadpool/Logan/Wonder Woman/etc.

Shout-outs to the OG Ninja Turtles though. It embraced the humor of the cartoon but still kept it true to the source with legit fighting, legit tension/danger, and multiple scenes lifted straight from the comics. It's a shame that none of the sequels quite lived up to that first one. The original is still one of the GOATs.

 

[GR13]

 

[bogey_j]

Blade was definitely influential but let’s be real, the majority of the people who watched it probably never heard of the character before or read the comic. So it was different than something like X Men and Spider-Man who had recognizable characters who transcended comics. When Blade came out the only reason I knew who he was was because of his appearance in the 90s Spiderman cartoon lol.

So Blade should get props but to me it’s more in the vein of a comic book movie like the Crow where it gets fans off the strength of just being a well executed movie, not because the source material was recognizable. X Men and Spider-Man showed execs that an audience can come in just off the strength of the characters being popular. And if the actual movie happens to be good, that’s the icing on the cake. I feel like before X Men and Spider-Man the belief was that only a Batman and Superman flick could sell off namebrand alone

totally forgot about The Crow loved that movie. it nailed the dark comic book aesthetic perfectly

 

[Peter Popoff]

The avengers and then Man of Steel. The CGI and action sequences put things in full swing.

 

[darryl]

You can put all 3 of those Spiderman movie's box office numbers up against superhero movies today and they still hold up. They were making on average 800 million at the box offfice. Mind you this was in the early 2000s, wayy before the superhero boom really kicked off.