Neat Thread, have you thought about making a Marvel group with multiple threads? I am a huge Marvel fan and have been for as long as I can remember. I was excited when Disney bought Marvel, Marvel seemed like it was always on the verge of bankruptcy and Disney came along to provide the financial backing which has made Marvel now the highest grossing film franchise:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/04/09/marvel-now-the-biggest-movie-franchise-ever
In the 90s I was a big into Spiderman and X-Men but lost interest in those books around the time the X-men movie came out, since then I gravitating more toward the Avengers comics and have been reading Daredevil (my all time favorite character) non-stop since Kevin's Smith's 2003 run while catching up with the classic Frank Miller stories. It is an exciting time to be a Daredevil fan, he had two great long comic runs with Bendis (considered best writer in the industry) and Brubaker (who created the Winter Soldier) and is now being helmed by Mark Waid. Daredevil has been racking up awards recently and it may well be the best written comic in the stands right now. Marvel reacquired the rights to Daredevil from Fox and is now making an original series coming to Netflix.
I have really enjoyed the Marvel movies and looking forward to where they are heading. Most of the movies seemed to be based on recent and popular comic stories sprinkled with some classic references. By the end of Thor 2, they mentioned 2 of the 6 cosmic items and it seems like they may be doing an Infinity Gauntlet story line which in the comics revolves around Thanos who makes an appearance at the end of Avengers, his weapon is spotted in the first Thor movie. With Ultron being the main villain in Avengers 2, Marvel is going to continue to build up Thanos for a future Avengers movie.
I am very much looking forward to the Guardians of the Galaxy movie. The comic has been around since the 60s but the movie is based on the most recent comic iteration that came out just a few years ago (also a great read). Marvel has been doing some great casting and can't wait to see Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon and Vin Diesel as Groot the alien tree. Anyone remember Vin Diesel as the Iron Giant?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3isCLVghoI
As I mentioned before, besides creating movies that connect to one another, Marvel is creating something similar on the small screen through Netflix. They are creating a Daredevil, Iron Fist (another favorite), Luke Cage and Jessica Jones series and then bringing them together under the Defenders banner.
Even though movies on Marvel characters have been out for a while, Iron Man was Marvel's first movie. The X-Men and Spider Man movies were licensed out to studios and the studios are the ones who have had creative control of these properties. The first couple of X-Men movies were made by Bryan Singer and by the third, Fox decided to rush the X-men movies without Singer and they strayed away from the source material. Singer helped out with First Class and is back working on Days of Future's Past, he even stated that he plans on fixing the mess that was made in his absence. The X-men movies seems to be back on track and, inspired by the Marvel movies, plan on doing spin offs and crossover with other properties that they hold the rights to which include the Fantastic Four. Sony owns the rights to the Spiderman movies and have taken many liberties with the franchise, especially with the third flick; have not been excited about the Spiderman movies since the second one with Doc Ock.
Enjoyed seeing other people's collection and will post pics of mine next chance I get.
