Superman Lives Designs May Make
You Grateful for Superman Returns

Hasbro? Oh right, the guys behind Transformers that thought making BEAST WARS was a great idea.  No wonder they are the “geniuses” behind this abortion of a reboot.

Superman Returns was good!  And so was Beast Wars.

Superman Returns was a big fat kryptonite sleeping pill. When I saw it at the theater one half of the audience walked out, the other was asleep.  It launched Brandon Routh’s career and ended it at the same time. I’ve seen better acting from wallpaper and no his acting hasn’t improved since then.

Thank God this never happened.  Also, for the record, Beast Wars was awesome.

I totally agree, Beast Wars was a solid cartoon, especially when you look at the last Transformers’ move.

Despite the technical failing I found beat wars to be entertaining. Though I don’t try to watch that stuff at 23

Hire this man!

Characterization, storytelling, much fewer instances of Starscream being the wrong color?

Really I’m very much a G1 loyalist, and I totally get how east it can be to dismiss Beast Wars is you haven’t seen it.  I mean they’re animals, the early CG isn’t exactly mind blowing, there’s the whole comic relief thing. There are plenty reasons to dismiss it on principle (I mean “Optimus Primal…really?) but the fact of the matter is, you give it a real watch (This is a real chance not 10 minutes, the first few are going to be a challenge) and it’s going to shock you by just how good it is.  Beast Wars was a worthy successor to G1, hell I think it was better than the animated movie. 

Granted the movie gets pretty hard to sit through after Prime dies, leaving Ultra Magnus and a lobotomized Grimlock to carry the new team of second stringers.

The horror, the horror…

Crappy concepts, crappy spelling (Exlplorer!) – I’m glad someone recognized this for the crapfest that it would’ve been. Is that George H. W. Bush’s head on the next-to-last Superman sketch? Because it looks more like the 41st POTUS than it does Nic Cage.

THANK GOD IT NEVER HAPPENED !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Better voice actors, better story coherency, story arcs that lasted for seasons, better characters in general, better animation, more articulated toys, etc, etc, etc…

The Kryptonian Explorer looks cool.

Lol. Yes.

Thank God this never came to fruition.

What always got me was the entire plan of Lex’s was stupid. Right, so you are going to raise a giant crystal landmass out of the ocean, flooding the earth… Yet this new land mass won’t be able to support life, will not being able to grow anything on it, won’t possess fresh water & you decided you’d just guard the entire land mass with 2 thugs, of which only 1 has a gun. This doens’t look like aj ob for Superman, this looks like a job for your local cops & a speed boat.

I am speaking for the majority. The majority of people who are sick of super hero movies. An very soon these moview will fail & stop being made, especially the DC ones.

CITATION NEEDED

Seriously, two of the top ten grossing films of 2011 were superhero movies, three of the top fifteen and four of the top twenty-five (Of 579 films released so far in 2011, that puts all four superhero movies of 2011 in the top 3% of film releases for the year). Only one of those four films was a sequel and that sequel had minimal marketing and no one expected it to be as good as it was. Of those four films, only one had a fresh rating of less than 75% at Rotten Tomatoes.

Going forward, IMDb’s top five most anticipated films of 2012:

5. Star Trek 2
4. Amazing Spider-Man
3. The Hobbit
2. Avengers
1. Dark Knight Rises

That places three of the top five most anticipated films of 2012 as superhero films. Other online sources (Such as Fandango) have ASM slipping out of the top five, but I couldn’t find a single list that didn’t have those three films in the top ten for next year. Even Ghost Rider managed to crack a lot of lists. All told, odds are good that one of DKR or Avengers will be the highest grossing film of next year (I see the new Twilight and the Hobbit as the only potentially stiff competition for either of them) with ASM having a legitimate shot at top five based on the performance of the first three.

To be frank, your argument doesn’t have a leg to stand on. Reviews AND box office performance both indicate that the public and critics are both far from sick of super hero movies.

A: Superman Returns wasn’t bad. It just wasn’t what people want from a Superman movie. Funny you chose those instead of, say, Steel and Supergirl.
B: All of Marvel Studios movies have at least been okay, most of them have been great. Maybe not to you, but you’re infected with the troll virus.
C: Are you saying we’re going to get a whole new wave of Superhero movies in ten years? Hells yea!
D: Comic fanboys are not nearly a large enough community to influence these numbers to where they are. If it was really our obsession that was driving the success of these movies, none of them would be failures because we would all go and see them, every time. And the industry wouldn’t be failing. >.>

“Comic fanboys are not nearly a large enough community to influence these numbers to where they are.”

The highest selling comic of 2011 was JLA #1, coming in at over 200,000 copies in the direct market. Green Lantern, largely considered a dud among superhero films, grossed $116.6 MILLION. Factoring out at an average of about $14 bucks a ticket (Which is on the high end) brings us to the neighborhood of 8,285,714 tickets sold for Green Lantern. Given the 200,000 copies JLA sold (Many of which were quite probably multiple copies bought by collectors), we can draw a line to assume that that’s roughly around the majority of regular comic book readers and “fanboys” meaning the “fanboys” would’ve had to have seen Green Lantern 41 times each in order to hit the ticket sales Green Lantern hit.

Of note: I’m one of those 200,000 fanboys (Give or take) and I didn’t bother seeing Green Lantern in theaters, so my numbers may be a bit of an undercut considering one of you other fanboys had to make up my 41 viewings.

To say the fanboy community isn’t large enough community to support these box office grosses isn’t just accurate, it’s an outright understatement.

Oh dude, Superman Returns was totally bad. It was a failure across the board, from acting, through scripting. There was nothing redeemable in that movie.