It's a New Year, that means we have a new set of comic book movies. So today, I'm gonna stop and rank 2024's comic book movies based on my excitement.
Today, I Share your ranking of 2024 comic book movies based on your excitement level.
You might have noticed I'm in a different location. I'm actually currently in Burbank, in the Los Angeles area for an awards show this weekend. I'm actually going to be hosting my own live event Friday night. So if you're in the Los Angeles area, I would love to meet you. I'm doing a live video recording of my most anticipated movies of 2024, as well as a podcast with my friends Griffin Schiller and Zack Pope, talking about what didn't work about last year's movies and what we're excited about for this year's movies.
So if you're in the area, love to meet you. Come out and be a part of a live recording. I've never done an event like this before, so I don't even know what to expect. Hopefully a bunch of you will come out to see it, but also right now I'm talking at a different volume level because I'm in a hotel room and don't want people to complain about me.
Without further delay though, let's get started. In last place, Madam Webb. This is the latest Sony Spider-Man spin-off without Spider-Man, where we take Spider-Man villains, Spider-Man side characters, and spin them off into protagonists without featuring Spider-Man. And inherently it comes off very cynical. I mean, it's literally the Spumonk or whatever it's called, it's the Spider-Man universe, and it doesn't involve Spider-Man yet. Like that's just mind-blowing that that's a thing. And doing one for Madame Webb in particular seems so far detached from anything reasonable. It feels like Sony is just trying to go to the well too many times, trying to make as much money as they can out of the Spider-Man name. All of these movies feel like they should have come out 15-20 years ago; they feel dated. The trailer feels like maybe there's an almost interesting idea in there where it's like Final Destination combined with a superhero movie, but it feels like the very generic version of that. Maybe we'll be wrong, maybe it'll be the good version of that where there's something fresh and new to do with the comic book movie genre. But when you're presenting it as a Spider-Man spin-off without Spider-Man, it just feels creatively bankrupt.
In 6th place, Craven the Hunter. Copy and paste what I said about the last one, place it right here. Here we're taking, once again, a Spider-Man villain and making him the protagonist in a movie without Spiderman. I just, I don't think it's a good idea. I think it is inherently very cynical to treat your characters like this, and instead of the idea of having a great story to tell being the driving factor, instead being like, well, we've got the Spider-Man characters, so let's spin them all off into their own individual film. That's just so frustrating when they take something that means so much to so many of us and just treat it as a way to pull money out of us. Looking at the trailer, you know, I like the actor here, like Russell Crowe looks like he's having fun. It's the sort of movie that I enjoy, so maybe it edges out my interest above Madame Webb. Madame Webb seems maybe a bit more interesting with what the seeing the future stuff means, but on just a genre level, this one seems a little bit more my thing. But both of them are just like why are we doing this?
In 5th place, Old Guard 2. Pretty big gap between the bottom 2 and this one. The first Old Guard I enjoyed enough when it came out; had fun watching, I was like, oh, that's pretty fun, okay nice little action film. I guess it's based off a comic book, didn't know but pretty cool. And haven't really thought about it since, so the idea of a sequel, I assume I would have the same experience; like it'll be fun enough while I watch it but it'll leave my mind as soon as the credits start rolling, as so many streaming movies do. They're designed to be highly digestible and highly forgettable. I'm assuming the same of this film. Since it's not exploiting Spider-Man stuff, I feel like there's a little bit more artistic integrity here. I'm not as jaded towards it, so it's not like yeah, it'll be a passing streaming film for a weekend.
For the Crow, this reboot remake of the Crow has been in development for forever. There have been so many different versions of this, so many different directors, so many different actors attached to it, that it's hard for me to believe this is actually going to come out. But while doing my research, apparently they actually shot it back in 2022, so it's pretty likely that it will actually come out this year. I'm not a huge Crow fan; the Crow has always been one of those movies that I feel like I should enjoy more than I actually do. I don't have any specific issues with it, full respect to it, just for whatever reason never was one that I got into the way a lot of other people have gotten into it, and not as much into it as other people think I would be into it. But I'm totally open to a new version of it, and in particular when the comic book genre is a little bit stale, if we can add a little bit of goth into it, hey, I'm all for it.
Real quick before I give you my top 3, be sure to share your ranking down below in the comments section. Which ones are you most excited for? Also, remember if you're in the LA area, I'm doing a live event this Friday, I would love to meet you. We're also doing a live recording of a video, and I'll probably ask people in the audience for their opinion, so you can be a part of the video. Hopefully it'll be a cool experience. If you're anywhere in California, come on out to it. I have no idea what to expect, hopefully it'll be amazing.
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In third place, Venom 3. I've actually come around quite a bit on the Venom films. Whenever the first one came out, I had fun with it, but its many plot issues, structural issues were very prominent in my initial review. And then I felt like it was one that I still kept going back to, had fun with it, and then I had even more fun with the second one in its own ways. So I kind of just fully came around on the Venom films, like I'm just excited for another one. They're silly, they're goofy, but not every comic book movie needs to be a big sweeping epic drama. Sometimes let Tom Hardy be very silly, over the top crazy and have this very odd bromance thing in there.
A runner-up, Joker Folly Adieu. Now I was a big fan of the first Joker and thought that it brought something fresh, new, and different to a genre that has a lot of movies that can feel similar or be in the same ballpark. They're all trying to be big sweeping epics for quadrant films. Then out of the blue, you get Joker film that is heavily, heavily, heavily inspired by Martin Scorsese films. It's something different, it's a totally different genre, and so I appreciated that. I thought it worked and I thought it was a good character study. I have no idea how you make a sequel to that film, and I have no idea what it means that it's a musical. No clue what that means, no clue where they're going with this thing, but I'm interested. I'm curious as to what that will mean, as to what that will look like. So it's one of those ones where this thing could be a disaster, Todd Phillips' track record with sequels not good, but I'm willing to give him a chance. It's borrowed trust, it could be a mess, I'm willing to see what happens.
But in first place, Deadpool 3, the only MCU film this year but MCU in a wildly different sense. Like technically Marvel Studios, technically MCU but obviously it's Deadpool from the Fox X-Men universe, also Deadpool rated R and a team up with Wolverine from Fox X-Men. So it's Marvel Studios but not Marvel Studios, also, at the same time, MCU but not MCU at the same time, and so that's very interesting. There's a ton of reasons, all the obvious reasons why I'm so excited for this. I enjoyed the first two Deadpool films, Hugh Jackman back as Wolverine, so excited first MCU from this rated R. At the same time, there's a lot of ways this could go very wrong. Logan was such a great send-off for Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, I don't want to mess that up with all the rumored cameos. I don't want this to just be firing off cameos, there's a lot of things I'm concerned about with this one, and like I know they say it's radar, but what does that mean coming from Disney? I just don't know. So I've got questions, I'm on its side, it's No. 1 but this year is a year where even my top ones I'm most excited for, they're more like man I'm really excited for that but boy could that go really wrong. There's a lot of room for that one to disappoint me where most use my ones I'm most excited for, I'm just really excited for them, so it's kind of an interesting year for comic book movies. Because it's you look at this list of films, it's quite different from the past 12-13 years of movies where Disney MCU so dominated and now you have one MCU film and it's very Fox heavy. What does that mean, what will that look like? I don't know, but I'm curious to find out. Be sure to let me know your ranking down below in the comment section. If you're in LA, if you're in California, if you're on planet earth, I'd love to meet you this Friday. Details are down below in the description about my event, free parking, free everything, live recording, meet and greet all that fun stuff, and keep talking these into TV too much in 2024.