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The Decline of Super-Hero Movies

 Every weekend I block out two hours for writing, and I should be using that time editing my book today, but I'm really not enjoying writing that book, and thinking of abandoning it altogether, so instead I'm doing another blog post to procrastinate from that other project. Some say we have super hero fatigue.  Less super hero movies are being made, after years of flooding the market.  James Gunn says that it's not fatigue for super-hero movies.  We just need good stories.   Super hero movies have been with us since the days of the serials in the 1940s.  Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel and Captain America all got serials, along with non-super comic book characters like Blackhawk, Hop Harrigan, and Dick Tracy.   For decades, it seemed as though the super-hero movies were focused on Superman and Batman.   That changed in 2000 with the release of X-Men.  Many will say that Blade in 1998 was the start, and that may be true, but I ...

The Sinews of a Universe: Guillermo del Toro's Universe

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“I cannot pontificate about it, but by the time I'm done, I will have done one movie, and it's all the movies I want…They're [all] tonally different, and yes, of course you can like one more than the other—the other one may seem banal or whatever it is that you don't like. But it really is part of the same movie. You make one movie.” ~Guillermo del Toro, Twitch Film , January 15, 2013   Guillermo del Toro has been very open about this. All of his stories are not only connected, but are scenes in a single, long movie. Characters, plot-lines, and props run between these scenes, establishing the outline of the story. This article is only a guide for you to see the connective tissue. Movies del Toro produced, but did not direct, are virtually excluded from this list. Only one connects into del Toro’s universe. The rest are irrelevant, and evidently not considered part of his overall story.   We will not be discussing sequels, spin-offs, or tie-in media pr...

A Hero to Save us:The Original Marvel Cinematic Universe

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In 2002 Sam Raimi Maker of such Films has Evil Dead and Darkman  made a Spiderman Film. This is a Timeline of that Spiderman's adventures 30,000 years ago:a Native American man was exposed to a massive dose of gamma radiation. Turning him into the Hulk Like Creature  Known has the First Hunter  3000 B.C. :Events of X Men: Days Of Future Past After Credits Scene.En Sabah Nur telekinetically assembles the pyramids in Ancient Egypt. 3100 BC:Welding Power And Technology far beyond it's time. Apocalypse Unified Egypt Under his Name while crushing all those who opposed his rule. Beliving only the Strong should Survive, A loyal  group of Followers that Apocalypse dubbed Clan Akkaba pleaged their lives to help him fulfill his mission. 1900 BC:Sodom and Gomorrah 1450 BC:the Minoans Fall  After the Minoans Defaulted on their promise to Recognize Apocalypse as their Lord and Master, Clan   Akkaba Retaliated by Slaughter...