Originally Posted by
Beaddle
Let me give you the time line.
It all officially started with Superman 1978. this is the godfather of comic book movie and the most influential. it had a terrific sequel Superman 2, arguably the best superman movie to date.
In the late 80s and the dawn of the new 90s. Tim Burton came along Batman 89 and Batman 92. this gave comic films a more darker edge and went on to influence many Saturday morning cartoons. X-Men TAS, Spiderman TAS and Batman TAS. these are also the comic films that started the director driven approach. I expect even some in this MCU generation to have heard of ''The Tim Burton style''
The genre took a nose dive, with Batman and Robin, some will argue killed the genre. one of the lowest point in comics before what we have know where Hollywood directors claim to hate comic movies.
Blade 98. perhaps officially the first marvel movie. was very successful and brought back some prowess to the genre, however blade was too deep in the vampire genre. it was seen as a vampire film first and a superhero movie second. Blade is also the first mainstream black superhero.
X-Men 2000. The new millennium, brought in a new wave of comic movies, It was mostly a hard sci fi drama, driven by realistic grounded issues. it brought credibility to the comic movies. this influence capitalised on the better sequel X2. it went on to influence the Nolan Batman films.
Spiderman 2002 and Spiderman 2. arguably the most accessible superhero films ever done, it redefined superhero blockbusters with some of the best film making choices that still stand the test of time today. unlike the xmen movies that felt it needed excessive grounded realism where the mutants could not have fun or put on costumes, spiderman 2002 and 2 showed you didn't need to take it that far and you can still have great movies.
Batman Begins 2005. Wiped the slate of batman clean from batman and robin, took the Xmen 2000 mentality of making serious grounded movies which strengthened comic movies a lot more as a real genre.
The Dark Knight 2008, redefined the entire genre. opened a lot of opportunities for the genre to explore itself more.
Iron Man 2008, the start of a concept called a cinematic universe.
Somewhere around 2010/2011, Disney buys marvel. Marvel movies now become Disney movies leaving a lot of their adult source material behind.
Avengers 2012. the official first crossover movie. things changed forever for the worse. all studios Sony, fox and wb, wanted a piece of the avengers money. Amazing Spiderman 2014 fails for this.
Man of Steel 2013, tries to start up the DCEU but to no avail because DC was rushing things to play catch up to MCU.
Winter Solider 2014 MCU first and only attempt to make a quite realistic adult story driven movie though Disney chose to capitalise more on the Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 comedy approach going forward with Marvel. Fox and Sony reach the end of an era. Days of future past said goodbye to the main X-Men cast in the best way possible that started it all in the 2000s. Andrew Garfield exits role of Spiderman setting the stage for Spiderman to join the mcu.
Deadpool 2016 The return of R Rated comic movies with a big bang. Also more push for creative freedom
Logan and Wonder Woman 2017- Saw both genre redefining films. Wonder Woman as a female comic character with a female director Patty Jenkins, Logan capitalising on what the first xmen did and TDK did to take the genre one step more forward in making real excellent drama that just happens to have comic characters. gives more chance for the genre to explore itself again.
2015-2020, the cinematic concept continues to grow at the expense of good film making and story telling. Additionally the tone of comic movies begins to change more, and in my opinion for the worst. things got more fun, formulaic and more CGI action comedy than thoughtful smart. although
In 2020, this is now where we are, there is little substance left. Dont also forget the genre is supposedly stupid to this ''snobby directors'' and would not be influencing any of their movies though I doubt they had such negative influential thought of marvel and DC movies in the 2000s.