[reapersaurus]

There is NO guarantee that good comic book movies will continue to keep coming out.

(In fact, that was my main point in my defense of Spiderman 3.)

It takes a rare director/producer combo to get the opportunity to get talented actors to do the characters and stories right.
This just should not be overlooked, because we've been fortunate that there have been a few good movies - remember, there have been some bad ones, too.

I fear that there may be very few good upcoming superhero movies, because:

a) the general populace (which fuels this whole machine) is tiring of them. This is just the feeling I get, from various comments, posts, media coverage, etc.

b) When the ooh-ahh and imaginative approach is gone, so is most of the wonderment of the characters and all we'd be left with is gritty dark dramas - what would be the point? Comics has seen the mistakes of going down that path, and if we want dark, there's plenty of crime drama TV and movies that have supplied a never-ending glut of them for decades.

c) There aren't THAT many FILMABLE, well-known superheroes left.
Thor, Avengers, Black Panther, Justice League, are not exactly easy to make good movies out of.

d) Once a franchise goes thru its run, it is questionable whether it will be done again. For example, the Xmen have buttloads of stories still to tell (haven't even scratched the surface) but will they get another feature-film release?

e) And after Xmen 3, would you want another movie in that franchise?
I am totally with Pirate on this one, and I will state that Xmen 3 is the most dangerous superhero movie made so far- the one most likely to kill this whole niche of movies.
It was SO bad, and most importantly held NO respect to the characters or stories, that every dollar it made is simply evidence to the studios that they can do whatever the F they want with them.
[radical] I'd go far as to say that everyone who saw it in the theater was complicit in the potential killing of good superhero movies. [/radical]

f) The studios are likely to just create their own, made-for-movie superheroes and franchises.
Look at Hancock.
It is specifically designed for film - in fact, the whole storyline of the world is slammed in at the END of the smarmy, manufactured character-driven storyline which does ZERO justice to the few facts they did establish.

I fear the world, and the studios, may be evolving past classic superhero movies and they may soon have "had their day".