Board 8 > It feels like the idea of "superhero fatigue" has waned.

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I used to be not a very big fan of the seeming omnipresence of superhero movies, but then I realized how many storytelling opportunities they provide and what all crap Hollywood would probably be making otherwise (like some movies Siskel & Ebert tore into that would almost certainly never get made today).

Also the superheroes who have made it big in the movies recently just tend to interest me more than the likes of Spider-Man and the X-Men. The whole concept of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in particular fascinates me, and even its weakest entries are still reasonably watchable.
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What gave it away? Was it the 7 superhero movies that broke $1 billion at the box office in the past two years?
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is someone going to tell him that Spider-Man and X-Men are going to be in the MCU
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It was a stupid idea. Weve always had superhero stories and we will always have superhero stories.

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HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

What gave it away? Was it the 7 superhero movies that broke $1 billion at the box office in the past two years?

I don't see people complaining about it anymore. Even James Cameron came to congratulate Avengers: Endgame for breaking Avatar's record despite his earlier criticism.
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I don't know about that.

This is a GAMING MESSAGE BOARD that cares more about watching Survivor than actually playing a video game since 2005.

LinkMarioSamus posted...

The whole concept of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in particular fascinates me, and even its weakest entries are still reasonably watchable.

I didn't want to reply seriously to this topic, but this is accurate and why it still works with such success. Typical opinion is that even the worst Marvel movies are still at the least entertaining popcorn flicks, and people will keep seeing them until that stops being the case at a decent rate.
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The real problem isn't that they get made, but that studios pool a priority of their budget into them, which steers the mainstream appeal into movies like that, and hinder other types of film from being marketed, or even produced, properly. To an extent of course. All types of movies still get made, but this factually reduces them.
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I don't know, I feel like I'm pretty much done.

the only one coming out in the forseeable future that I kind of want to see is joker, and that's more so because I like joaquin phoenix

I don't care at all about what Marvel's got next year. Black Widow, the Eternals, Disney plus shows... hard pass.

I'm sure TC is technically right however and that these movies will make a ton of money. I don't see them coming close to doing Endgame numbers until the X-Men revival hits.

Hitting Endgame numbers right now is an unrealistic goal that no studio, even Disney, expected.
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Not hitting Endgame numbers doesn't mean fatigue has actually set in, because Endgame numbers are ridiculous
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TomNook posted...

The real problem isn't that they get made, but that studios pool a priority of their budget into them, which steers the mainstream appeal into movies like that, and hinder other types of film from being marketed, or even produced, properly. To an extent of course. All types of movies still get made, but this factually reduces them.

I'm sure this is true a little but I don't think it's actually that big. There's definitely attempts to copycat Marvel but Warner Bros is the only one that's really tried making A LOT more than in the past. Fox and Sony are the next biggest but they've always been making superhero movies. If anything the studios are just trying to connect movies like the Universal Monster universe

Marvel Studios itself was created solely to make superhero movies. It's just a new studio doing it's "niche' specialty, so just because they exist and are doing their thing doesn't mean other studios can't make other movies, and Marvel Studios wouldn't be making other movies to begin with.

Now, Marvel consistently making 2-3 movies a year that are really good might be making competition tough for other studios.... but that's not Marvels fault. Other studios just need to make good movies.
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Is it because Disney remake fatigue is in full swing?
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Hitting Endgame numbers right now is an unrealistic goal that no studio, even Disney, expected.

right. I guess what I should have said is that I have real doubts about black widow and eternals doing much better than say, ant-man numbers.