| Don't forget that Spider Man was tied up in legal red tape for most of the decade. Otherwise James Cameron would have made his version in 1993. Not to mention Tim Burton's aborted Superman movie in 1998, as well as the aborted Hulk movie, also in 1998. The 90s would have been very different indeed, with Batman leading the way. Batman & Robin was a flop for sure, but Batman Forever was a big hit with an all star cast, and the franchise was still held in high regard the entire time, otherwise they would have never bothered with the reboot. X-Men certainly pushed a lot of projects over the edge, but you have to remember that back then, lots of people were very hesitant over the movie and it was seen as having a 50/50 chance of being good, or a complete disaster. Not even the studio had a tremendous amount of faith in the movie. They were testing the waters, hoping to repeat what Batman did a decade earlier. |