Why superhero movies fail

Audiences will begin to feel the walls closing in with every new installment, and even hardcore fans will be pulling at their collars. Newswire Powered by. Close the menu. Rolling Stone. Log In. To help keep your account secure, please log-in again.

You are no longer onsite at your organization. Please log in. For her failure, her master — an evil entity credited as The Unnameable — punishes Morgan by making her old and barren. The TV movie aired to low ratings and negative reviews. Instead, he dreams about spending his days drawing and traveling around the world. Take the uniform and the shield away, and Captain America becomes a generic action film. And so, another Marvel project was lost to a different timeline, where Hippie Captain America is still a success.

The Incredible Hulk series ran from to , with old episodes rerunning for decades after that. So, when NBC bought the rights to the show, they decided to bring the Emerald Giant back in style with a trilogy of TV movies that also featured other Marvel characters. The Incredible Hulk Returns is a must-watch for every Marvel fan because it anticipates by decades elements that would be part of the MCU.

For starters, this was the first Hulk and Thor crossover on film — Thor: Ragnarok , eat your heart out. Secondly, Kramer was also used as a sex symbol in the movie, similar to Chris Hemsworth. Kramer is often filmed with his shirt off, and The Incredible Hulk Returns even has a scene where Thor wears nothing but a towel. This somewhat applies to other related fantasy franchises as well. The Terminator franchise gave us two miserable male-led sequels Terminator: Salvation and Terminator: Genisys before giving us one merely okay female-led Terminator: Dark Fate which crashed and burned partially because folks gave up on Terminator.

We can debate whether sending Wonder Woman to HBO Max for its first month of domestic play during an otherwise conventional overseas theatrical release qualifies. But Wonder Woman is still being tasked with unenviable pressures and potentially impossible expectations. The Batman , meanwhile, gets to sit back and wait for the world to return to normal. This is a BETA experience. Like Catwoman , D. Writer-director Angela Robinson embraces subverting traditional norms of women-led genre movies with its largely female cast as well as explicitly exploring a queer relationship between the central hero and villain.

As for Aeon Flux , it served as a tragic example of the ongoing struggles for women filmmakers to have a voice. Meanwhile, D. This movie managed to endure in the memories of fans because of its willingness to look forward. Meanwhile, the trio of women-led superhero flops from the mids came up short because of their inability to look beyond the past. Fox, and any music by Carly Rae Jepsen. Image via Paramount Pictures. Image via 20th Century Fox.