Awesomest topic ever!
I'd probably mark the beginning of the comic book themed movie rush as 2000 with X-men, though... although definitely things went into overdrive since 2005. But from 2000 on you had the first two X-men movies, first two Spider-man, Hulk, Daredevil, Elektra, Punisher, etc.
I'm most excited about the Marvel Studio films... I always loved most of the films based on Marvel properties (X-men, Spider-man), but those were all produced by different studios just leasing the characters (Fox and Sony, respectively)... but with Marvel Studios launching in 2008 with Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, I think they really set a new standard for comic-based films, and I just can't enjoy the ones by other studios as much anymore... Wolverine was cool and all but Fox can't get stuff done as well as Marvel themselves.
So I'm really excited about Iron Man 2 as it is coming out in just over a month... from there its a bit of a wait but Thor and Captain America are the next summer... I've never been the biggest Thor fan of all time... he was always cool to have around in the Avengers but I was never to into him on his own... but I said the same thing about Iron Man, and that movie totally changed my image of him in that regard... so I'm sure Thor will be good.
Captain America is one of my top three favorite comic book characters of all time, and while there HAVE been some movies over the years, they have all been pretty bad... and the last one was 20 years ago, so we're due.
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My other two favorites, Hulk and Punisher, have had multiple films and a successful tv series between them, so yeah... Cap is the only one left out. I'm really excited that the first film is going to all be set in World War II (other than bookends to the film, I've heard)... of course, it could end up being a bad movie, but man,
Saving Private Ryan with a super hero thrown in?
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Pretty awesome stuff!
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Well, potentially.
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I am hoping they re-enact the first comic cover of Captain America but I assume they will be a little less silly than that.
Avengers, then, the summer after that... I'm trying to not even think about that because there are three films in the middle to bridge the gap... but obviously that'll just be nuts.
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