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Old 2012-07-17, 19:58   Link #15
hyl
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Originally Posted by Triple_R View Post

This leaves me with two observations:

1) DC Comics is really getting left behind in Marvel's dust.
The last few DC comic adaptations aside from batman either bombed in the box office: Catwoman, Jonah Hex Superman Returns, Green Lantern did poorly. Watchmen did ok though.
Lets hope that the man of steel and JL movies will be decent

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2) Part of me misses the days of Robocop, Terminator, Rambo, Rocky, Indiana Jones, and Star Wars. In other words, Hollywood doesn't seem to be producing Hollywood-Original Sci-fi/Action movie series anymore. And it seems obvious to me that them milking comic book franchises (and Transformers) for all their worth is the main reason why...
The times have changed. The movies that you mentioned were all from the late 70's or 80's and the audience these days are different than the people from 30 years ago.
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