Current Events > Is it pretty much agreed that the 90s was the worst decade for superhero movies?

(+) Yeah! (+)

*Comicbook superhero movies

All we had was Batman & Robin and that's it, I think. But seriously, they mostly sucked.
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Caution999 posted...

TMNT

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I thought it was agreed upon that it was the worst for comics as well.
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Blade wasn't that bad

Good. Superhero movies are stupid.
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Kitt posted...

Caution999 posted...

TMNT

Guys doing stunts in turtle costumes were all the rage .

You Dont even know .

You dont even know!!!
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Ninja Turtes ruled.

But Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Batman Returns, those all sucked.

It might be more accurate to say it was a bad decade for Batman movies tbh.
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Mystery Men
Blankman
The Crow

All great movies.

I go off the Topic Title, not edits in the description.
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Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Captain America were pretty awful that come to mind.

Blade was good

I thought people liked Spawn as well.

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"Worst" might not be the best word because I can't think of anything in any other decade that is better other than the more recent ones. I mean were the 70s or 80s any better than the 90s?
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Yes. Many were churned out just because they had to. Movies like Fantastic Four, Cap America and Nick Fury which were all ether made for TV or too crappy for theaters. T hen there was Steel.

Not to say they were all bad, Blade was better then expected.
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Caution999 posted...

Kitt posted...

Caution999 posted...

TMNT

Guys doing stunts in turtle costumes were all the rage .

You Dont even know .

You dont even know!!!

I loved the first one as a kid. But as I got older, it became more of a dumb, funny corny film when I realized how bad (so bad it's good) it actually was.
Didn't care about the other two once. I've only seen the third one once ever.
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Kitt I know you danced to the Ninja Rap at some point in your life
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Youngster_Joey_ posted...

I thought people liked Spawn as well.

If people like Spawn, they liked it ironically. My god, that movie tip-toed the line between being funny-bad and straight hot garbage.
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SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

Kitt I know you danced to the Ninja Rap at some point in your life

T-U-R-T-L-E POWER!
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Kitt posted...

Youngster_Joey_ posted...

I thought people liked Spawn as well.

If people like Spawn, they liked it ironically. My god, that movie tip-toed the line between being funny-bad and straight hot garbage.

Yeah, I've never actually seen it so I wasn't sure how it was.

Anyways, 70's and 80's were pretty awful too, but it was more TV than straight film

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Youngster_Joey_ posted...

Kitt posted...

Youngster_Joey_ posted...

I thought people liked Spawn as well.

If people like Spawn, they liked it ironically. My god, that movie tip-toed the line between being funny-bad and straight hot garbage.

Yeah, I've never actually seen it so I wasn't sure how it was.

Anyways, 70's and 80's were pretty awful too, but it was more TV than straight film

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbG9SKN7bBA" data-time="

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U fucking wot m8? These were the best!
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It's kinda like saying "Man, the sixties were a bad decade for work safety" because OSHA was created in the 70s.

Yeah, the 00s are when we started getting the really good superhero movies, but saying the 90s were the worst is ignoring how absolute shit superhero movies were in the 80s going back, basically apart from Superman and Batman.
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CyricZ posted...

It's kinda like saying "Man, the sixties were a bad decade for work safety" because OSHA was created in the 70s.

Yeah, the 00s are when we started getting the really good superhero movies, but saying the 90s were the worst is ignoring how absolute shit superhero movies were in the 80s going back, basically apart from Superman and Batman.

Not really. I'm sure those decades had their share of shitty superhero movies but the 90s definitely tried to cash in harder on comicbook films and lo and behold, almost all of them sucked.
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Kitt posted...

I'm sure those decades had their share of shitty superhero movies

Go back and look, then compare.
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CyricZ posted...

Kitt posted...

I'm sure those decades had their share of shitty superhero movies

Go back and look, then compare.

Already did. The 90s is still the worst in that regard.
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Purely objectively, decades without super hero movies are worst than decades with super hero movies. We could do a lot worse than the nineties.
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SavenForever posted...

I thought it was agreed upon that it was the worst for comics as well.

90s DC was amazing. Jurgens Superman, Morrison JLA, Waid Flash, Kingdom Come.

Also Vertigo got started in the 90s.

Some good Alan Moore and Frank Miller stuff too.

People rag on the 90s edge but there was a lot more too it than that. People just remember the worst because the lows were REALLY low.
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CyricZ posted...

It's kinda like saying "Man, the sixties were a bad decade for work safety" because OSHA was created in the 70s.

Yeah, the 00s are when we started getting the really good superhero movies, but saying the 90s were the worst is ignoring how absolute shit superhero movies were in the 80s going back, basically apart from Superman and Batman.

This p much.
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Kitt posted...

I loved the first one as a kid. But as I got older, it became more of a dumb, funny corny film when I realized how bad (so bad it's good) it actually was.

WTF is wrong with you

Ninja Turtles 1990 is a masterpiece film.
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16-BITTER posted...

Excluding perhaps Batman Begins, all of those are better movies than Nolan's boring pretension and Assfleck's take

And opinions are a wonderful thing.
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16-BITTER posted...

DevsBro posted...

Ninja Turtes ruled.

But Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Batman Returns, those all sucked.

It might be more accurate to say it was a bad decade for Batman movies tbh.

Excluding perhaps Batman Begins, all of those are better movies than Nolan's boring pretension and Assfleck's take

Live-action Batman movie tier list:

Awesome tier:
Batman Begins

Good tier:
TDK
TDKR
Batman: The Movie (60's)

"I mean, it was the 90's what do you expect" tier:
Batman Forever
Batman & Robin

Tryhard tier:
Batman
Batman Returns

"There is no excuse for this" tier:
Batman vs Superman
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DevsBro posted...

Kitt posted...

I loved the first one as a kid. But as I got older, it became more of a dumb, funny corny film when I realized how bad (so bad it's good) it actually was.

WTF is wrong with you

Ninja Turtles 1990 is a masterpiece film.

:/
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It sucks that Mystery Men never got a sequel. It's absurd that Ben Stiller hates it, as it's one of his better movies.

also, and lol @ the people saying Batman Returns was bad. Imagine actually thinking that. Pathetic.
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Kajagogo posted...

It sucks that Mystery Men never got a sequel. It's absurd that Ben Stiller hates it, as it's one of his better movies.

also, and lol @ the people saying Batman Returns was bad. Imagine actually thinking that. Pathetic.

It had a great Batmobile.

It also had an army of armed penguins.
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DevsBro posted...

16-BITTER posted...

DevsBro posted...

Ninja Turtes ruled.

But Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Batman Returns, those all sucked.

It might be more accurate to say it was a bad decade for Batman movies tbh.

Excluding perhaps Batman Begins, all of those are better movies than Nolan's boring pretension and Assfleck's take

Live-action Batman movie tier list:

Awesome tier:
Batman Begins

Good tier:
TDK
TDKR
Batman: The Movie (60's)

"I mean, it was the 90's what do you expect" tier:
Batman Forever
Batman & Robin

Tryhard tier:
Batman
Batman Returns

"There is no excuse for this" tier:
Batman vs Superman

Good tiering. Batman Begins is the best although I dunno if I'd personally call it awesome. The other Nolan films are competent and decent but nothing to rave over.

Batman and Batman Returns are just bad, and this isn't coming from someone born post-2000 who just saw them for the first time, I was there when they came out and I never understood what people liked about them at the time. >_> The 90's Batman films are also bad but they're at least stupid fun. Those first two just aren't really enjoyable.
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Kajagogo posted...

It sucks that Mystery Men never got a sequel. It's absurd that Ben Stiller hates it, as it's one of his better movies.

My buddies and I watched Mystery Men in high school all the time, it was basically the best "super hero" film out there and was legit really funny (to be fair, haven't seen it in ages, so I have no idea if I'd still think that).

DevsBro posted...

Kajagogo posted...

It sucks that Mystery Men never got a sequel. It's absurd that Ben Stiller hates it, as it's one of his better movies.

also, and lol @ the people saying Batman Returns was bad. Imagine actually thinking that. Pathetic.

It had a great Batmobile.

It also had an army of armed penguins.

I crapped all over the Burton films in my last post but I do agree they did have the best Batmobile and arguable best "Batman Theme".

Plus props to those movies that somehow from that mess inspired the Batman animated series.
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Not gonna lie, Batman & Robin is my favorite Batman movie. It's awful, don't get me wrong, but it's the over the top stupid stuff I prefer with comicbook movies. Which is probably the reason why I'm not crazy about the other Batman films.
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They were too busy making great music.
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1337toothbrush posted...

Good. Superhero movies are stupid.

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Batman Returns is one of the best superhero movies of all time imo. Michael Keaton, Danny Devito, Christopher Walken, and the best Catwoman ever? Yes please!
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Kitt posted...

Not gonna lie, Batman & Robin is my favorite Batman movie. It's awful, don't get me wrong, but it's the over the top stupid stuff I prefer with comicbook movies. Which is probably the reason why I'm not crazy about the other Batman films.

While the MCU is more serious than Batman & Robin, I definitely dig that they don't usually take things TOO seriously, because, yeah, its a comic book. Like all the whining that Thor should've been more serious about the events in Thor: Ragnarok. Nah, lets just have a big fun stupid movie that's entertaining. Why should such a silly premise as most comic book films be done "dark and gritty and serious"?
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The Mask was from the 90s and that film was awesome.
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The "lost" 1994 Fantastic Four is actually pretty good.

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It's no masterpiece, and the budget is obviously non-existent, but it would have been a decent TV-movie.

16-BITTER posted...

The Top Crusader posted...

Why should such a silly premise as most comic book films be done "dark and gritty and serious"?

Indeed. And yet people loved those shitty Dark Knight flicks. It's like some people don't even like movies.

The greatest comic book movie tragedy is that we never got a Lego Batman '66 film.

The Top Crusader posted...

Kitt posted...

Not gonna lie, Batman & Robin is my favorite Batman movie. It's awful, don't get me wrong, but it's the over the top stupid stuff I prefer with comicbook movies. Which is probably the reason why I'm not crazy about the other Batman films.

While the MCU is more serious than Batman & Robin, I definitely dig that they don't usually take things TOO seriously, because, yeah, its a comic book. Like all the whining that Thor should've been more serious about the events in Thor: Ragnarok. Nah, lets just have a big fun stupid movie that's entertaining. Why should such a silly premise as most comic book films be done "dark and gritty and serious"?

The MCU found a perfect middle ground for me in terms of what I like to see in comicbook movies. They can be fun, cheesy, colorful, larger than life superhero movies but they know when to pull back and be serious when they have to

I have so much respect for Kevin Feige. Most people have a hard time pulling projects like this off but the reason he made it work is because the man clearly grew up with this stuff and is an actual fan of the source material, but also, he knows how to make good movies in general.
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