Post by dazz on Oct 27, 2018 9:27:23 GMT
It's similar to how, after Elektra in 2005, there wasn't another female-led superhero movie for over a decade because no one thought there would be enough of an audience for a female-led superhero movie so no studio, including MCU for 10 years, was willing to spend money to make a female-led superhero movie, until Wonder Woman showed that female-led superhero movies can be successful. And now, there are more female-led superhero movies that have been announced or being planned.
And similarly, Superman: The Movie showed that a big-budget superhero movie could be successful and basically created the genre of big-budget superhero movies. So without Superman: The Movie, there would be no MCU.
Well a broken clock is right twice a day, so by law of averages you are bound to not spout just inane bullshit all the time, most of the time yes, all of the time eh close but not quite, but trust you to even when you do say something right you then fuck it up.
Superman may have been the original big budget feature superhero film but that's not to say without it there would never have been others, the fact that Superman stood alone in that space for over a decade until Batman also got a movie, which came off the back of the Batman resurgence in the mid 80's, not the success of the Superman films which had quickly dwindled into shoestring budget films just about recouping their expenses in less than a decade.
Without Superman the foundation of the comic book blockbuster would not be what it is today, doesn't mean it wouldn't exist however, and it's never just one thing Elektra wasn't the only reason we didn't get a female led cbm for a decade it was just the final straw after the two prior attempts that failed to land with Supergirl & Catwoman.
The modern CBM owes it's success to many films, Superman for being the first, Batman for being the resurgence, Blade & X-Men for saving the genre after Batman & Robin almost killed it, Spider-Man for showing just how much potential the genre held, The Dark Knight for raising that bar then Avengers for raising it even higher and showing us what a shared universe if done right can culminate in, all these things build on one another, but also are just as important, Superman could have come out had it's run same with Batman but had we not got Blade & X-Men maybe that's where the genre dies, everything fucks with and helps out everything else, it's just how shit goes.