12 posts tagged ‘superhero film’
Don't expect to see Jacob Elordi in a superhero movie any time soon
AV Club,
Like Jeremy Allen White and Paul Mescal before him, Jacob Elordi’s star is on the rise such that he not only has to answer the obligatory superhero question in interviews now, but he’s also confident enough in his place in the industry to risk poking the Marvel bear. Read more...
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, ranked from worst to best
Conventional critical wisdom holds that the floor and the ceiling of the 15-year-strong Marvel Cinematic Universe are not so far apart—that in devising a recipe for success, the company has managed to avoid any outright disasters, even as its principle of quality-without-risk also more or less negates the possibility… Read more...
Hollywood’s not afraid of superheroes anymore, but it’s still afraid of real superhero stories
Before superhero movies were the only kind of movies, they almost always had a cute little gag where someone would acknowledge that something—typically something pulled straight from the comic book source material—was silly, whether it was by directly breaking the fourth wall or with a winky meta gag. That way the… Read more...
Edward Norton fought with Marvel to make a "serious" Hulk movie, which is probably why they fired him
Many lessons have been extracted from the success of Marvel’s original Iron Man over the last 15 years: Jon Favreau’s unlikely (at the time) box office winner took a B-tier comic book hero and made him the biggest name on the planet, largely by going low-key on the comic book lore, and heavy on the charisma, creating… Read more...