Of comics and films

Let's be honest. Whether you're a big fan or comics or not, the Marvel franchises have been doing great in the film industry. When I say great I don't only mean they've done some serious money with them but also they are very fun to watch.

  

  

Somehow they managed to introduce characters with they own film and then connect all of them in one big awesome combo, which is still fun on its own. Personally, I've always been a huge fan of Spiderman, which is my favourite superhero. I started watching Spiderman cartoons since the 80s, then in the 90s I also watched the X-Men cartoon.



However, what really got me into the X-Men were not the comics nor the cartoons, but the videogames. It all started with the Capcom fighting game X-Men: Children of the Atom, but then came X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse (for SNES in 1994), Marvel Superheroes (1995), Marvel vs Capcom: Clash of Superheroes (1998), and finally Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (2006)



So that's basically all my knowledge on Marvel characters comes from. I became a fan of some particular characters such as Jean Grey, Psylocke, and Gambit besides of course Spiderman during all those years.

But after the Iron Man film in 2008 I became an immediate fan, I think it's a pretty awesome film. I also enjoyed the rest of the films of the Avengers team: The Incredible Hulk (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). I even enjoyed the first Hulk film in 2003 which I still think is good. But Joss Whedon's The Avengers (2012) is just beyond amazing.

I started watching, everything Avengers after that film. My favourite being this TV show called Avengers: Earth Mightiest Heroes which had a pretty cool intro. I guess it was cancelled because Disney preferred to have some consistency among the cartoons and the films rather than the consistency between the cartoons and the comics.

The awesomeness reached by the Marvel Cinematic Universe is way too far over the top for DC comics to try something similar now. They had a pretty cool Batman trilogy where the popular opinion is that was increasingly good, I, in contrast, think the opposite: Batman Begins (2005) was way better than The Dark Knight (2008) which was better than The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Don't get me wrong, I think the three of them are really cool. 

DC then presented Man of Steel (2013) with a fresh start on Superman, but apparently they want to develop this story into a Justice League film. First they announced that the next film will include not only Henry Cavill as Superman but also a Ben Affleck as Batman and, interestingly, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman.

Clearly, DC is trying to do things differently. I expect them to be able to pull off this really cool too. If their attempt to a Justice League film (which by the way, it totally diminishes the importance of the team when one says Justice League of America) makes it big there's a chance spin offs of solo films will appear and that'd be really awesome. 

What am I expecting from the next "Batman vs Superman" film? Well, firstly, not to be called Batman vs Superman, I expect it to be a story where Superman meets Batman fighting against a common threat, namely: Lex Luthor. I hope it really pays off.

Meanwhile, I'm expecting Days of Future Past and Guardians of the Galaxy to be the big films of this year. One will be released until August but the other one's released by the end of May, so nearly one month now, so I better start watching all existing X-Men films now... you know, just as a reminder of the story so far.