If someone had told you 15 hears ago superhero movies would end up becoming the most profitable movies in Cinema, an MCU cinematic universe existed and an Avengers movie was the box office king and peak of Cinema would you have believed him? Superhero movies have really gone a long way.
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Adam White
Parker Lee
15 years ago, maybe not. But after TDK and Iron Man came out, yeah I probably would have at least entertained the possibility.
Although Spider-Man 2 had just come out and that was pretty huge, so, maybe.
Elijah King
I probably wouldn't have completely believed it, but I know there's a possibility on account that Batman 1989 did so well for its time.
Connor Harris
>he thinks sales = profit
Nathaniel Long
I would have been happy to see the marvel success but equally devastated that the characters I actually grew up giving a shit about had their own attempted universe that crashed and burned
Juan Wilson
I said in 2011 that Avenger would be the biggest movie in the world... I was wrong, but now not so much, back in 2011 I was a MCU fanboy tho.
Oliver King
Disney is ruining cinema.
Kayden Parker
> actual pic of Disney patting themselves on the back
Gotta laugh.
Dylan Young
Disney owns the distribution etc. but Cameron/Lightstorm owns the Avatar IP (like Lucas/Lucasfilm owned Star Wars and Indy but Fox distributed it before the buyout)
Easton Hill
I mean, it's not like Avatar was all that good.
Jeremiah Sanders
I'd be more amazed 4 years ago after Age of Ultron felt like such a non starter and it felt like people stopped caring. Then they managed to make people care again.
Jace Anderson
If someone told me that I could believe it.
If they told me it would be a second part of a two-film story where the Captain America, Iron Man, Professor Hulk, Thor, Black Widow, Ronin, Rocket Raccoon, War Machine, Nebula and Ant Man have to travel through time to collect the Infinity Stones to undo Thanos snapping away half the life in the universe, I would have told them to fuck off.
Especially if they mentioned the snapped cast, Doctor Strange, Scarlet Witch, Black Panther, Winter Soldier, etc.
Nothing really feels off the table anymore for cape films, even if the MCU doesn't really have a serious contender yet.
Matthew Bailey
That's nothing
Imagine if someone had told you 15 years ago that Marvel would have the most popular characters in the world and DC would be a laughingstock on the level of Uwe Boll
Matthew Wilson
Imagine being told 15 years ago that kids would like Groot more than Superman.
Aaron Bell
I believe my response would have been: "Who or what is a groot?"
Parker Powell
Westerns use to be the most profitable cinema in the world.
Now, and for the past few decades, they barely qualify as a niche play and you can't pay an average movie goer to go see one, even when you pack the movie with otherwise supposedly popular actors or a 'name' director.
Likewise, this has been true of other genres.
And simply pushing out a superhero movie is no guarantee of a huge box office, and this includes movies with Marvel characters in the recent past.
And no, the MCU is not peak cinema except for idiots and mouseterns.
James Smith
Sure yeah. That's always just meant "spectacle" and so capeshit makes sense.
Jason Ward
Imagine being told that Aquaman made more money than Justice League, Wonder Woman, Man of Steel, or Batman v Superman.
Asher Thomas
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Owen Anderson
Fakest thread ever! Comic fans always believed in comic properties ability to be great movies. It's what its part of what it means to enjoy a story. It's very rare a story that doesn't immediately inspire adaptation
Jack Bailey
>Marvel movies.
>Peak cinema.
Yeah, n'ah.
Nathan Butler
Based. Fuck all these shills.