3 Huge Lessons Superhero Movies Should Have Learned From X-Men Origins:

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Whether you love them or you hate them, superhero movies are a major component of the modern movie landscape, with each top studio – from Disney to Warner Bros. and Fox – invested in multiple comic book franchises enveloping various comic book characters. The genre has grown and adapted over the years, allowing standalone films like Bryan Singer’s X-Men or Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man to pass the baton to massive, multi-movie cinematic universes at Marvel and DC.

But the mistakes made by previous superhero movies are being overlooked, and often repeated. For each X-Men: Days of Future Past or a Guardians of the Galaxy, there’s a Catwoman or an Amazing Spider-Man 2 -- films that tanked so hard, they drastically changed the course of a character or series. And it’s troubling that some of the biggest errors committed by failed comic book films of their ilk are being recycled by big-budget tentpoles in 2016. Why isn’t Hollywood learning its lesson?

I was lucky enough to interview director Gavin Hood recently when his fantastic new film, Eye in the Sky, opened the Gasparilla Film Festival in Tampa. Seeing as how Hood directed the notoriously flawed X-Men: Origins – Wolverine, a movie that introduced Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) to the world – we started talking about the state of superhero films today, and how some of the mistakes he endured are being repeated today. His insights are incredibly valuable, and prove several points we have been making about mistakes current comic book movies continue to make. Such as:

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