Comic Interconnetion on screen it has finaly come to be!

SPOILER ALERT, INCLUDES MARVEL SPOILERS OF ALL KINDS

Many a Marvel fan has been disappointed by the string of ether bad or only on par movies which their beloved company has been allowing to see the light of day. X3 was generally bad on so many levels that it is hard to determine where to start, Fantastic Four 2 garnered about as much respect as its predecessor ( which unfortunately will be just enough to make them want to release another one) and Spiderman 3 pales in comparison to its first two counterparts. Why do these all of these movies have such and epic fail rate amongst the ones who the production company should have striven the most to impress? At least one of the reasons has got to be that here we come to second and third generation of a movie and they don't seem to even HINT at the shared continuity that most Marvel comics have.

Thats right, for those of you who do not know; weather you be some one new to comics, a DC fan-boy (or more aptly put living under a big shinny red cape) Marvel has a shared continuity. What this means is that characters stories can cross over and really affect what is happening (unlike DC continuity which is famed for having super boy punch reality), and that huge cataclysmic events that affect the whole world affect every one! for example
the how the recent Mavel Civil War pitted all the superheros against each other, or more recently :: shudders:: the Umpteenth Skrull Invasion that is under way right now.

Ah but back to the subject at hand, the lack of that shared continuity in the movies. Finally there is a few rays of jubilant hope that they will in fact eventually bring the whole of the marvel universe together in the epic fashion which it deserves. This summers first major block buster Iron Man shows many levels of great promise for the future. The last scene makes a promis that from all appearances at the moment will be filled. in it Nick Fury (THANK THE GODS THAT HE IS NOT BEING REPRIZED BY THE ORIGINAL ACTOR) breaks into Tony Stark's house and informs him that he is not the only superhero in the world, and asks if he has and experience with The Avenger initiative . Now many people might just shun this off to the side as a nice quip to end the movie on, however there is other evidence that supports my hopes. In the up coming Incredible Hulk movie ( which should be better than their last attempt since Ed Norton unlike Eric Banna has prove many times over that he could in fact act his way out of a paper bag) we see Robert Downy Jr. to make an appearance as Tony Stark (Heres hoping the Hulk buster suite will appear with him). Additionally with the Captain America movie title being changed to The First Avenger: Captain America, and with Thor the last major member of the legendary super team slated to get his movie in 2009 it is a sure be that some time around 2012 we will have our selves an avengers movie.

But the The Avengers are not the only super heroes whom seem to be making a nod to the shared universe. The most recent installment in the x-men series X-Men Origins: Wolverine has perhaps one of the greatest heroes ( in a very loose sense of the word) of all time ever Deadpool portrayed by Ryan Renyolds. This cross over to another comic book ( albeit slight since Deadpool's origins are part of Wolverine's) helps show Marvels willingness to make the leap into shared universe.

All in all the future looks bright for the genre of comic book movies hopefully these trends will be maintained