Marvel Comic Books Dominate Hollywood For Now

Marvel Comic Books, dominating Hollywood and movie makers all over the place. The last time I counted, Marvel comics was taking it to DC comics, and hard. Quite frankly I do not believe that DC comics can compete.

Marvel Comics had laid the foundation of their fruits many, many years ago. This did not occur overnight. Hey I paid the price too, watching those early Saturday morning Marvel comic cartoons of the Fantastic Four, Thor, Spider-man. You know the ones I am talking about the still framed comics. Who made those anyway? In one scene, the thing was taking a punch, next scene he is smoking his famous cigar, what happened in between? I know, we were young...I would always look at my brother and say, hey what gives? He would tell me something like, that is how fast he is! Whatever, I did not buy it.

Marvel Comics paid the early price of exposure and now they reap the high rewards, what I need is for the good old comics to make a rebound, not just so that my collection would be worth something again but rather so that this piece of Americana does not get lost! I said to myself, I said self, what can we do to make sure that this art does not get lost. So that Spider-man forever will swing from the highest high-rises that NY City has to offer. Superman will no longer be intimidated by cryptonite, The Fantastic Four find a way to defeat Galactus, and deal with Dr. Doom, you get the picture.

Up to now, It is hard for DC Comics to contend with the likes of those 3 Spider-man movies, I will say it, not even the last Batman movie, It was real good I will give them that, but was I the only one that left the film feeling like the makers of the film did all they could to make Batman the co-star of that movie. It seems like the Joker was the main character and Batman was just along for the ride. Spider-man movies have all been about him and his conflicts and then the villains like Venom, Sand-Man, Dr. Octopus, the Green Goblin come in to his life and just mess things up some more.

I believe that Marvel Comics must have been very instrumental in making sure that these characters/Superheroes were kept in the context of the comic books and for the most part, I left those movies feeling that way. Maybe the fact that there are so many more movies from the Marvel Comics side of the comic book world to judge, it would not really be fair to judge. I do have to declare though, that If I see another Superman movie with Lex Luther as the villain, I might hurl a piece of cryptonite at the producers. Superman needs to fight a villain with color, boldness, and some kind of flair, if we can survive another Superman movie. Please!

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How to Find Your Classic Movies and Vintage Films From Hollywood Studios on DVD

In 2003, DVD releases of classic films were not only few in number, but rarely contained titles that were unfamiliar.

This scene has dramatically changed for the better. Now thousands of classic titles can be purchased on DVD, and at least a hundred "new" old movies are released every month. So many have hit the market, in fact, that online review sites now cover less than half of them. But you know they're out there, because you see them in the stores or find them listed in catalogs.

We have two problems. Much as we would all like to purchase every new DVD release that appears on the market, our funds are limited and we need to be selective. First up, of course, are the movies we fondly remember. Next are the titles that seem familiar, the movies that received a lot of publicity and won all sorts of awards , but that we missed seeing. And there are, of course, famous movies that were released before our time. But once we have these titles in our collection, there are thousands more to choose from, and these we know little or nothing about.

This is where reference books really come into their own. True, there are online data banks. If you know exactly what the title is, or who the actors are, the data bank will prove highly informative. But if you're just browsing, you can waste a lot of time and get nowhere.

Many of us have forgotten that you can pick up a book in your hands and by simply flicking through the pages, you can accomplish in ten seconds what will take at least ten minutes on the net. And when you find a title that sounds promising, like "The Belle of New York", for example, you can find out simply everything about it at a glance.

I said earlier, our keen classic movie collector has two problems. His second problem concerns the movies he remembers and would love to see again. Unfortunately, he doesn't remember the title or the stars, but can vividly recall certain scenes. A film about a couple of songwriters who always quarreling, for instance. There are hundreds of such films. A data bank is pretty useless for this sort of query. The only way to find the title is to ask an expert or thumb through a reference book. Particularly one with photos.

Answer: Well, it could most likely be "Three Little Words", if the movie was in color. Or "Tin Pan Alley", in black-and-white.

The DVD boom in classic movies shows no signs of abating. It is in fact increasing as new DVD suppliers enter the market and established firms search their vaults for anything that moves.

Specializing in classic cinema, the author of this article, John Howard Reid, is a well-known film critic who has written over 80 books of movie history and criticism, and contributed many articles to film periodicals in America, England and France. Most of Reid's in-print titles are available from online bookstores such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. One exception is his privately printed "Classic Movie Posters", featuring 204 full-color reproductions of vintage posters from Hollywood's Golden Age. This book can only be obtained online from http://www.lulu.com/content/49373 or http://classicmovieposters.exactpages.com