When will the Comic Book Movie fatigue hit the majority of fans? Or has it already begun/happened?

[Jerast]

I've been done for a while. I just find them boring now.

Between all the comic book movies that all feel the same and then the cartoons that people tell me "are much better than the movies, so if you didn't like the movie just watch the cartoon it's way better" I'm about 10000% done with superhero movies and tv shows for now.

 

[RobertEHouse]

I am personally tired of superhero films, but as long as they do well in China. Hollywood is not ever going to stop making them, as they are the easiest thing to get hassle free by the countries censoring.Just look at a box office listing next time for a superhero film. They make $$million here but over seas in China it will be $$$million, needless to say its not going to stop.

 

[irishda]

Yeah, AoU was boring and Civil War burned me for good. I guess the DC stuff or even Deadpool can keep me on board, but I'm not paying for any MCU release anymore.

Just curious but what did you dislike about Civil War?

If they're anything like me, it was the complete and utter lack of anything resembling character development beyond Black Panther's 5 minute arc of "I need vengeance! But that's not the way of a king".

The icing on the cake was how utterly fucking curbstomped Team Captain should've been against Team Iron Man, but they can't, because we have to pretend the guy who can punch people really hard is equal to the nigh indestructible iron suit that flies and has the same payload as a destroyer.

 

[immortalfrieza]

Everybody and his mother has been saying superhero movies will die any moment now since way back with the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies really set off the whole thing. It's been more than a decade now, I think it's time we can admit that superhero movies have become a genre unto themselves and not just some passing fad that's going to die at any time.

As long as Marvel keeps making decent superhero movies we'll be fine, and all of them thus far whatever their flaws have overall been good.

 

[gorfias]

I even saw Ant-Man recently and I felt more bored of the MCU.

Thor and Black Panther better change things up.

That was the beginning of the end for me. There was nothing wrong with Antma. Not the way things were wrong with 2nd Thor movie. Yet it was only OK. Nothing I'd go out of my way for or even re-watch.

Doc Strange was a little better. Good conclusion and non stop eye candy.

But I've skipped Wonderwoman and Spiderman. I'll catch them, I'm sure. But odd for a fanboy like me to sit anything out.

I am excited about Thor. As written before: looks like it is taking chances. Amazing trailer. I think it will be the best of the 3 Thor movies.

Bought Logan on Bluray. Not sure that counts as a super hero movie anymore than Legion and Preacher are Super Hero TV shows.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

I don't think I could ever get tired of superhero/comic book movies. I grew up on superhero cartoons like Batman, Spiderman, X-Men, TMNT. Thus, that subject matter will always interest me. With that said, there's probably like only 5 of the MCU movies that I really really like/love. You're going to get a lot of just OK to bad movies regardless of genre, you don't have to see them all. What always keeps me from getting tired is when a really great movie comes out like this year's Logan or Lego Batman. I also think superhero movies have a higher potential than the action hero movies that were big when I was a kid. I remember when seeing the first X-Men movie in high school and just being relieved that it didn't suck. Actually getting a superhero movie as good as The Dark Knight, Logan, Avengers when I was kid/teenager was unfathomable. I wouldn't mind seeing "the supply" of superhero movies dropping off with less emphasis on the universes.

^ This.

I grew up with this kinda content as a kid, I can't imagine I'll ever get sick of it.

Although from the onset, I haven't liked the Marvel movies all that much, except for Hulk... because I am an adult now, I want to watch superhero shows with a bit of an edge.

 

[Saelune]

I find the people most "tired" of the Marvel movies dont like them to begin with and just want to ruin my fun. That pisses me off. Dont like it? Dont watch it.

If they weren't making superhero movies, they'd make other kinds of action, adventure and sci-fi movies. So excuse me while I keep complaining.

No, they would make the same generic drivel they have been making for years. Forgive me if we dont get Expendables 4, or Jason Statham as Jason Statham.

I honestly had more fun with stupid Transporter 2 than I could with most of these superhero movies. Shoot 'Em Up was also stupid, but entertaining. I'd even take the Bourne movies over Universal's Kick-Ass, Hulk and Hellboy, and 300 over WB's DCEU movies.

For sci-fi, you had Children of Men, Moon, District 9 and Avatar. I'd take any of those over the majority of superhero movies.

A few of these movies are still getting sequels, but would the originals have even been made if the superhero genre were so huge back then? Star Wars and Indiana Jones are still massively popular and still getting sequels, but if a young George Lucas came up with their concepts now, the studios would show him the door because they don't have any caped crusaders. A studio can only produce so many movies a year.

You're speaking of a small period in American cinema. There were decades of good action, adventure and sci-fi movies before superheroes became so big.

"If and then". People need to get over their Marvel hating.

Fast and the Furious is probably more damning for action movies than any Marvel movie.

 

[Hawki]

Star Wars and Indiana Jones are still massively popular and still getting sequels,

Indie's getting a sequel, true, but "massively popular?" Indiana Jones seems to be pretty tepid in the cultural zeitgeist right now. I mean, sure, everyone and their mother knows who Indie is, but I've never got the sense of it being one of the pillars of popular culture so to speak. Certainly not on the level of Star Wars.

 

[Trunkage]

I've always been picky about which superhero movies I see on the big screen. The first Marvel movie on the big screen I saw Cap 2 and that only becuase it seemed linked Agents of Shield. After AoU, I became picky about what I saw. Skipped Antman. Probs going to skip Spider-Man and Black Panther. Thor may be interesting but I'm waiting for reviews.

So I have spent $20 on each and thus I feel I got my money's worth and am not fatigued

 

[Roboshi]

Dunno, will this romantic comedy fatigue set in? Will the oscar-bait drama fatigue set in.

If you only go to the cinema to watch superhero movies you're gonna get bored of them, but if you feel like that then feel free to skip a couple or just wait for them to come out and watch at you leisure.

Now do I think superhero movies are headed for a big shift?

Yes! Marvel especialyl as it will need to replace it's actors eventually and if they do not handle it well they could lose a lot of good will they built up over the last decade.

 

[Kae]

For me personally it already happened, despite good reviews I didn't see Wonder Woman nor Spider Man and I have no wish to, I don't feel like keeping up with the MCU anymore and yes Wonder Woman sounds good but I don't care.

And to be honest this whole yearly franchise production I hate I ain't watching Sar Wars either, so fuck you Disney and fuck you Hollywood.

But I think that's it, it's not comic book movie fatigue because comics are a varied medium and all sort of stories could come from a comic book, it's franchise movie fatigue, this whole persistence in having a movie, in some cases multiple movies per year, that's what is tiring, boring and uninteresting.

 

[crypticracer]

I've never gotten sick of genres. However I don't go see movies in theatres anymore, the last superhero film I saw in theatres was GOTG 1. I watched Dr Strange when it showed up on netflix. I liked it. All the others ones I haven't seen from Avengers 2 to Spiderman all look neat. If I get in the mood to watch some superheroes theres a lot of stuff to watch, and that's cool. I just haven't been in that mood in a while.

I don't know when fatigue will hit most fans. I mean these kind of works are meant to just go on forever, I'm more worried that people still go to see Transformers movies.

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

If they weren't making superhero movies, they'd make other kinds of action, adventure and sci-fi movies. So excuse me while I keep complaining.

But they are making action and sci-fi movies: John Wick, Dredd(based on a comic book, but Dredd is far from being a superhero), upcoming Atomic Blonde, Baby Driver, Interstellar, Kingsman(another not-superhero comic book flick), Sicario, Arrival, new Blade Runner, Valerian, new Planet of the Apes movies, later Fast n' Furious entries, High Rise, Hardcore Henry, The man from U.N.C.L.E., The Martian, Life, Snowpiercer - all are movies that came out after Marvel hit the lottery with Avengers. And that without mentioning all the reboots, that are the real plague over Hollywood.

I skipped a couple movies so the fatigue aint too bad.

hypin for black panther and thor ragnarok tho. they seem to be the most genre shaking

I have to ask: What will be so genre shaking about that Thor movie?

 

[Vanilla ISIS]

What I'm tired of is cinematic universes.
You can't have a big movie anymore without some studio planning to do 10 spin offs and cross overs.
We already have Marvel, DC, X-Men, Star Wars, Lego and the Godzilla/Kong giant monsterverse.
Ghostbusters, Power Rangers and The Mummy failed to start their own universes but soon, we'll have Fast & Furious, Transformers, 21 Jump Street (no joke), Call of Duty, Hasbro and Valiant Comics trying to become cinematic universes as well.
They're also working on a Spider-Man universe (again) and more LOTR movies.
I won't even be able to watch the new Avengers movie because I haven't seen the last few MCU movies and I won't know what's happening.

This is why I watch movies and not TV shows - I don't have to watch Alien to understand Aliens (in fact, I've seen Aliens way before Alien). That however, is changing, at least when it comes to big releases.

I really don't want movies to turn into big budget TV shows spread out over the course of a decade.

At least Fox is trying to do something new (first an violent and vulgar meta comedy, then a self contained road trip drama, now they're turning the New Mutants into a horror movie) but the rest of the studios are really losing my interest.

I'm not a big fan of the Batman trilogy by Nolan but I miss how self contained everything was.