[Jason Abbadon]

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Originally Posted by Boba Fettuccini

Blade got a trilogy because he plays into the gritty vampire-slaying action genre. I bet most people didn't even know he was Marvel. Same with Hellboy. He only worked because it was funny, and had action and monsters..

Except...there WAS no genre before the Blade movies- hell, it was two years before the first Matrix movie came out!

Pretty badass return for a character that almost none of my friends that loved the Blade movies even knew was a comic book character!

iIf the movie is good, it'll sell. If they just hype a comic connection (like with Jonah Hex or Wolverine, Ghost Rider) and the movie is shit, it'll fail, or at least go down as a horrible horrible movie.

Hell, Soloman Kane, a movie reviewed as really good never even made DVD- at most you can stream it from Netflix! WTF?!?


Look at marvel's movies- if the comic book hype side was the draw, they would have tanked. Captain America is anythng but cool to a non comic person but they made it really great. Same with Thor- give the average person a Thor comic and tell them it'll be a movie and they'll tell you they wont bother....but it was really great and did well.

The flip side of this is Catwoman- DC took the biggest female celebrity on the planet at the time, put her into a skintight costume and it was a turd in a punchbowl.

If Guardians Of the Galaxy has the humor and "Holy shit we're in way over our heads!" tone from the comics, it'll blow the Aengers away and start a whole Marvel Cosmic franchise.