10 Ways To Fix The Biggest Superhero Movie Problems

7. Pointless Cameos

doc simpson Look, either do it or don€™t. No comic book fan, being honest, was impressed that Union Jack was in The First Avenger but not really, or that Doc Sampson was in The Incredible Hulk minus everything about him except the douchyness. Every time I see some obscure reference to the comics in films my first thought is, €œWho is that for?€ The answer is for them, the film makers must know that we question their supposed comic book acumen as we watch their films, so they place little tidbits to remind us that they have in fact read a comic. That€™s nice and all, but instead of easter eggs, why not show your comic book background in the actual movie? Why do I have to even say this??? I really wish Marvel Comics hadn€™t shot themselves in the foot decades ago and sold their IP€™s to Sony and Fox. I also wish Batman didn€™t suck so hard that I don€™t care about his crappy overhyped movies (Batman can€™t talk like that and expect to be taken seriously, period.). So Marvel sold out literally and DC sucks, making the one thing I always wanted completely impossible, well almost. How come on the view screens aboard the Helicarrier we couldn€™t see footage of other Marvel heroes in New York fighting aliens? How cool would it have been to see Nova streak by in any number of city shots across the movies? Maybe a conference call with Mr. Fantastic? There are countless ways to speak to the larger Marvel universe using quick cameos, in the same way it€™s done in the comics. Bob Harras reportedly lost his job as editor of the X-Books when the X-Men films didn€™t result in a boost in sales. This proved that Marvel and to a lesser extent DC have not a single clue amongst them. If I walk out of Thor and all of the comic book fans are immediately pointing out how the film is nothing (and I mean nothing dammit) like the comic, then where is the curiosity to read the comic supposed to come from? I obviously don€™t need to read the comic to understand the movie. By going out of their way to disassociate the films from the books they are guaranteeing that the two mediums will not really support each other. Cameos are a primary tool (at least one that isn€™t totally underhanded) for comic books to drum up interest in other books, and the films could easily get in on that action.
 
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Dante R Maddox got started in writing about pop culture in 2007. He developed his conversational style majoring in English and minoring in speech communication, his desire to write as if he were speaking to the reader face to face was the bane of many professors. An odd blend of geek cred and regular fella chic', you're just as likely to end up talking about baseball or politics as you are about comic books and movies (just don't mention Tucker Carlson, you are addressing the man who will go to jail for assault in the future after all). He wrote a book called The Lineage of Durge that's available on Amazon for a small amount of money, he's writing a second while acting as Editor-in-Stuff over at Saga Online Press, there is a graphic novel expansion of his book series also in the works as well as continued development of his cheesecannon, one day Canada...one day (Seriously, a piece of ham, you slice it up and now it's bacon?!?!? I say thee nay!!!)