Great to finally have Marvel in charge of their own films and have the various threads and characters overlap on the various films. Up until Iron Man, I always felt that the Marvel films strayed too far from their comic book roots in trying to appeal to a wider audience. The X men films are a particular disappointment to me. While they are decent enough films, watching them I'm always spoiling them for myself by being unable to prevent my thoughts wondering back to the comic books and thinking that they could have been done a lot better..
The films post Iron Man are a different kettle of fish though. You can tell from the off that they are being made by the people who know the characters inside out and they are fully done justice too. They are in my opinion, without doubt the best comic book based films ever released. Finally, as a Marvel fan boy I am able to sit back and watch them without having to think 'that's not the way this story should be going' or 'that's not right!'
With each release I find myself being more and more hyped up, safe in the knowledge that the upcoming film is going to be great.
I read and interview a few months back in the lead up to the release of The Avengers in which the Marvel executive who was being interviewed stated that Marvel are actively trying to regain the licences to ALL their characters as they become available. This would be a dream come true for me as other great Marvel characters like Spider-Man and the Fantastic 4 could be brought home as it were and appear alongside the likes of the Avengers.
Looking forward to Iron Man 3, Thor 2 and Cap 2 being released over the next few years..
