Who contributed to the modern day superhero film craze the most?
I want to say Batman but we didn't really get another film hit for a decade until Spidey came out. So my vote is Spiderman.
>>81439284
Those 4.
Superman introduced the premise, Batman refined it, Spider-Man resurrected it, X-Men proved a team movie worked, and Iron Man set the stage for the current capeshit genre
Man, this feels like another wave of a genre. I think it goes cowboys then war then horror and now superhero movies.
>>81439317
This
They are all equally important
>>81439442
Only difference is we have superhero movies planned out for the next 20 years. Those other genres just happened on the spot, nobody was really making a timeline for Clint Eastwood films.
It was the first X-men.
Batman actually almost killed the genre with Batman and Robin
>>81439442
>multiple entries per year since 2000
>>81439284
No... it was Blade.
>>81439284
Modern as in the entire field we have today?
Iron Man hands down.
Superman was the "classic" era
Batman darkened the genre
X-Men did "realistic" superpowers
Spider-Man put some camp back in the genre
Dark Knight ratcheted up expectations for effort in all aspects
Iron Man provided the modern formula
Avengers made the "cinematic universe" a thing
>>81439284
You have to remember that before X-Men it was really just DC's game.
X-Men started showing that superhero properties that weren't Superman and Batman could be profitable.
Spidey 2 and X-Men 2 cemented that they could be critically acclaimed.
However, it was Iron Man and the Dark Knight that really saw studios clamouring for more superhero stuff.
>>81440870
>the Dark Knight that really saw studios
Why does DC fall miserably after they make a good Batman film? They had the 1989 one then fell to shit. Then the trilogy then fell to shit again.
>>81440751
Pretty much this.
>>81439492
Not all of those are going to get made. The public is already tiring of capeshit.
>>81439751
People didn't even know blade was a comicbook movie
