Which superhero film are you most looking forward to in 2016?

[The Natural]

At smarkschoice I ask which superhero film you’re most interested in for the following year so I thought I’d also bring it here (should have done sooner with hindsight). I've made a change to the format including a TV show, Daredevil with the universal acclaim by fans and critics. Use the “other” option for the other V shows as I don’t want to have forgotten any or know which are renewed. 2016 is loaded (listed by month on release via Wiki).

[The Natural]

Mine in order though it might change with posters/trailers/clips:

 

1. Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice.

2. Daredevil Season Two.

3. Captain America: Civil War.

4. X-Men: Apocalypse.

5. Doctor Strange.

6. Suicide Squad.

7. Other.

8. Deadpool.

9. Gambit.

 

Won’t be surprised to find Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice taking the top spot. Batman and Superman sharing a film for the first time with Wonder Woman finally making her big screen debut.

 

I love Daredevil Season One, best thing from the MCU. Hopefully the second season keeps up the quality.

 

Mixed feelings regarding Captain America: Civil War. Positives: Writers for both Captain America films, Markus/McFreely are back for the threequel, the Russo brothers as Directors like they did Captain America: The Winter Soldier is second only to Avengers Assemble in my rankings of the MCU films. Negatives: I like how the solo films are centered on the hero and their world before the hero is brought up to a team-up event movie. Concerned that won’t be the case with Iron Man, Black Panter, possibly Spider-Man and other Avengers inclusions. Big cast to balance.

 

Credit to the X-Men franchise returning to form with X-Men: First Class (2011), The Wolverine (2013) and X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). Interested to see if X-Men: Apocalypse keeps it going and seeing the younger versions of older characters we’ve seen in other films.

 

I like Doctor Strange through his appearances in the 1990s cartoon I grew up on and the Spider-Man comics I’ve read with him in. Be good to see the magical/supernatural in Doctor Strange with Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role.

 

Suicide Squad feels like something different which should help rather than hinder. That’s a selling point with seeing Jared Leto’s take on the Joker and Harley Quinn’s first appearance at the cinema.

 

I enjoyed Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. first half of season one more than most. Turn, Turn, Turn remains the highpoint of the show’s history. The season improved thanks to tying into the reveal from Captain America: The Winter Soldier than HYRDA was still alive in S.H.I.E.L.D. I’ve preferred the second season. While I’ve liked the chase for the Diviner, the Inhumans reveal and the road to Civil War, I’m not keen on S.H.I.E.L.D. vs. Nu-S.H.I.E.L.D. I like Gotham for the most part. Robin Lord-Taylor is great as the Penguin, the relationship between Gordon/Bullock played well by both and characters making live action debuts: Bullock, Montoya, Allen, Essen and Dr. Thompkins. No wonder Batman will beat up most of his baddies who are older than him. These and Daredevil are the only comic book TV shows I watch.

 

The video reveal that Deadpool will be R rated was well done and the costume. I don’t like Ryan Reynolds on the few films I’ve seen of his especially Blade: Trinity, fuckin’ awful.

 

I end on Brian Fowler’s most anticipated comic book film, Gambit ; ). I like Gambit from X-Men: The Animated Series but hardly anything has come out about the film.

[Biz Smarkie]

I am looking most forward to Captain America. I have to find a way to watch Winter Soldier and Age of Ultron so I can get caught up with the story beforehand though.

 

I also really really really want to see Daredevil, but my extra bullshit money gets spent on the WWE Network,

[Matt D]

I have absolutely no intention of seeing Dawn of Justice until it ends up on redbox at least. It's tough for us to see movies. I'd rather not spend the chance and the money on something that I'll probably loathe with a white hot passion. The trailer was absolutely nothing I'd ever want to see from a Superman movie. People who crave seeing Batman beat the shit out of Superman to prove some sort of point about the world are generally small people. 

 

I'm glad that people who care about Deadpool are getting a movie that'll scratch their itch. Deadpool falls in the Wolverine/Ghost Rider/Punisher category of comics stuff that I really don't care much about. But I'm glad people that do care are going to get something that will probably feel genuine to me.

 

I'm up for the rest of them though. I'd hope that they would make a Gambit movie that's based a lot of on the Fabian Nicieza comic from the late 90s and that has a lot of Thieves Guild stuff. It should be a heist movie. We'll see. Suicide Squad has just enough of a sense of what they should be going for in the promo image that I am cautiously not entirely pessimistic. Deadshot needs a death wish. Captain Boomerang needs to be a hapless asshole. Harley needs to be endearing. If they can hit two out of those three things they should be ok. 

 

For Doctor Strange, I just hope they don't try to explain away magic as being science. Also, I'm hoping they don't go too "urban fantasy" with it because that's never been what Doctor Strange was about. It needs to be larger than life instead of subtle. It's not Hellblazer or Dresden Files or whatever. It shouldn't be the Exorcist.

 

DD season 2 should be great. I'll admit that I'm more dreading Jessica Jones than looking forward to it because I don't really want to see David Tennant as Purple Man without any restraints. It's going to be brutally icky. I've had to warn a couple of people I know who might get "triggered" by it and who love both Tennant and season 1 already. They'll go as far as they can for the sake of it, I think, which is never a good reason.

 

Apocalypse should be fun. I hope they really lean hard on the 80s/late 90s vibe. I think it'll have the most x-mythology in it and that'll be fun as a long time fan.

 

But yeah, it's Cap, so long as they don't mess up the character of Cap in this and I see very little chance that they will.

[(BP)]

That's a pretty remarkable slate. My heart says Dawn of Justice, but DD Season 2 is almost certainly going to be the most satisfying.

[AxB]

Not excited at all about Batman vs Superman... still haven't seen Man of Steel, because I thought the trailer made it look rubbish, and I'm pretty much down on Snyder as a Director anyway. He fucked up Dawn of the Dead, he managed to excise all subtlety and restraint from something as unsubtle and unrestrained as 300*, and he made it abundantly clear that about 80% of Watchmen went far over his head. Haven't seen Sucker Punch because I thought it looked like he was trying to make a porno without the sex or nudity. So not really looking forward to his stuff.

 

Whereas with Civil War... even if they fuck it up, they can't fuck it up that much. The cast is so strong and inhabit the roles so well that even if you give them a terrible script with a stupid plot, they'll still be able to make something watchable out of it**. And I don't think they'll give them a terrible script with a stupid plot. I think they'll give them a really good one.

 

* And despite including dialogue stressing the importance of always maintaining formation in a phalanx, he had them breaking formation and going for solo hero combat moves within seconds of first engagement, even though that's the one thing that would have lost them the battle... pillock.

 

** Like Iron Man 2!

[Raziel]

Shit, can I change my vote to Daredevil Season 2?

 

I'm holding no hopes for Civil War, mostly because I loathe the source material, and have not been happy with how AoS has been going, and how they seem to be possibly tying everything together for it.  But I might be suprised.

[NikoBaltimore]

I know there's other movies that are going to be worth checking out (Captain America, Suicide Squad, etc)

 

But I'm most excited for some motherfuckin' Deadpool, and I'm going to have some chimichangas to celebrate it.

[The Z]

I didn't even know there were three X-Men related movies all scheduled to come out next year. Even to a huge X-Men fan like me that seems like overkill.

I went with Civil War. Doesn't matter that the source material was crap, I doubt this movie will have much to do with that besides the name. I also expect greatness from Dr. Strange and X-Men Apocalypse.

 

I'm not looking forward to any of the DC movies at all but I don't even dare say anything anymore, because Niners will get all up in arms about it.

[The Natural]

Shit, can I change my vote to Daredevil Season 2?

 

I went back and forth over allowing multiple votes. Maybe I should have, probably too late to change it.  Never created a poll here before. I can't wait for Daredevil Season Two as the first season was terrific. Hope its at the same level.

 

I'm sure me fellow Batman buddie, Ligerbusa will be voting for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

[Bustronaut]

1. Deadpool

2. Cap 3

3. Dr. Strange

Tied for 4th almost everything else

5. Daredevil S2

Civil War would have been behind Strange, because we've already had 1 great, 1 good and 2 fair Cap movies, so why be greedy? HOWEVER, I'm in love with Chris Evans as Cap, so it gets bumped up to #2.

Everything else - hate mutants, dislike DC's tone, and I'm oh so goddamn weary of calls for "more street-level superheroes!" That's all we have so far! Of the 20 or so "heroes" inthe MCU, 4 of them have powers beyond super-strength. So bring on Tony Strange and the Ditko-esque dreamscapes!

[Eivion]

Voted Civil War. I would rather have a proper follow up focused on Winter Soldier, but there is still enough of a high with me from that movie to believe the directors will do a good job at worst with it.

 

The DC stuff and X-men stuff doesn't excite me much. I can see them all ending up good, but still a bit too different in terms of what I want from them for them to do much for me in the end. I especially worry about Apocalypse though I admit I still have excitement for if only for the title character and Archangel. I do kind of look forward to Deadpool.

 

Don't know enough about Strange though it certainly has my interests.

 

Can't wait for Daredevil S2.

[Craig H]

I'm really excited for Batman vs Superman, but I'm more excited for Civil War, if just because I've completely dug nearly everything Marvel/Disney related. Plus, anything that gets us closer to Infinity War gets a thumbs up from me.

 

I'm also curious why people think Civil War is going to follow the source material. If anything, it just looks like the only similarity is the name. I can't see there being any bullshit about a superhero registry or anything like that. Age of Ultron felt like it was smacking you in the face for what Civil War would be based on. To me, it's brother against brother, Cap's ideology vs Tony's. Cap believes in the Avengers being a peace keeping force for good, despite declining public opinion, while Tony believes more in using technology to fight these battles since people in that universe love them some Iron Man and probably trust him more. Plus, Cap is all about falling on the sword to save the world while Tony doesn't want any of his family or friends to die in the process, so why not have drones die instead. It's an interesting dynamic to me that would obviously create a divide between the two forces who I am sure will unite by the end of the movie to stop some sort of big evil, turning Winter Soldier into a good guy in the process.

[Craig H]

I also don't get the excitement for Deadpool. Maybe it turns out to be good, but Ryan Reynolds is on par with Greg Kinear for being box office poison. His batting average when it comes to movies is incredibly poor. Again, maybe it turns out to be good, but that studio and Reynolds' history say otherwise.

[Matt D]

I felt much more certain that Civil War would follow at least part of the plot of the comic coming out of Age of Ultron than I did coming in.

[Craig H]

Why is that?

[Matt D]

The Hulk rampage was the perfect catalyst for it, and moreover, it was played up that way. Also, they went far further with Tony's paranoia/PTSD from Iron Man 3 (even if they ignored other elements of that movie). Coming into the movie we just had vague rumors about Tony finding out Bucky killed his dad or some such.

[Craig H]

Hmm, interesting.

 

Even still, what Hulk did is much less than what Wanda did in the comics, not to mention that Iron Man was just as responsible for all of that destruction. I know we've pointed out that Iron Man tried to get the fight away from the city, but he didn't, so why wouldn't people and news outlets zero in on that? Also, Tony was responsible for Ultron, who did way more damage and nearly ended the world. Tony Stark nearly killed the planet. That's way worse than Hulk and Tony brawling through a city. My guess is that Bruce goes back to doing what he did at the beginning of the Incredible Hulk or the Avengers, until the faces are in peril and Hulk comes in to wreck shop, with Bruce having more control over his Hulk persona.

 

Oh, and you want to talk about inconsistent things from previous movies, you had Bruce going from a dude who seemingly had control over the big green guy at the end of the Avengers, to the same out of control wrecking ball he was in the first half of the Avengers. I thought that was more egregious than Tony being in the armor again. Not to mention the other issue of...

 

Hawkeye having a family this entire time, even though he was hooking up with Black Widow, and Hawkeye's wife being all cool and the gang with Black Widow. That was like some weird Big Love type shit that I had a hard time wrapping my brain around.

 

If Age of Ultron weren't so well paced an entertaining, those issues would probably knock Age of Ultron down a peg or two, but the movie is just so goddamn good.

[Matt D]

We should take this over to the other thread. I'll answer your comments there.

[Craig H]

Yeah, probably a good idea.

[Bustronaut]

When did Hawkeye/Widow ever hook up onscreen?

[Craig H]

I may be remembering it wrong, but I thought those two were love interests in the Avengers.

[Ligerbusa]

For me it's:

 

1. Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice

2. Suicide Squad

3. Captain America: Civil War

4. X-Men: Apocalypse

5. Deadpool

6. Doctor Strange

7. Gambit

 

TV:

1. The Flash

2. Daredevil

3. Legends of Tomorrow

4. Arrow

5. Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

 

Edit: I totally forgot about Legends of Tomorrow. Other stuff like Supergirl and Preacher (does that count?) I'm just not sure about.

[Matt D]

I'm looking forward to Flash more than DD too I think. I am actively dreading Lucifer.

[Bustronaut]

TV:

1. The Flash

2. Supergirl

3. Legends of Tomorrow, or whatever

4. iZombie

DNQ: Arrow, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Daredevil