“Stop. Stop. STOP!”
Jean Grey, DARK PHOENIX
I think we can all relate. Here are the comic book movies being released in 2019:
- Captain Marvel
- Shazam
- Hellboy
- Avengers: Endgame
- Dark Phoenix
- Spider-Man: Far From Home
- New Mutants
- Joker
- Spawn (Maybe)
No, Glass doesn’t count. It’s an anti-superhero movie.
Those nine movies up there represent at least $1 billion dollars in production costs and maybe another billion dollars in marketing.
What happened to mid-budget action movies? thrillers? A cop drama they make for $60 million? Have a look at the action movies we got 20 years ago, before the X-Men franchise began this assault on originality and common decency:
Movies like that can’t exist in a world of shared universes, reboots, spinoffs, remakes, etc.
It’s either the next comic book, broad comedy, a cartoon, horror or it’s Oscar bait. That’s it.
This is not just superhero fatigue, it’s Fan Interest Virus. At what point does it develop into Audience Interest Deficiency Syndrome?
Anyway, here is the trailer for Fox’s last X-Men movie — enjoy:
The drama. The artistry. The originality. How do they keep doing it? Sure glad they just gave us the same exact story elements as X-Men: The Last Stand because God knows sometimes safe is betta.
I mean, it’s not like they have something fresh and new to show fans. It’s all been done!