crossover movies are the big thing right
now there are superhero team-ups
giant monkeys fighting giant lizards i
know it's he's an eight but
work with me here and the rumored film
that will feature all of adam sandler's
characters meeting
as cool as it is to see movie characters
from other franchises
battling it out we have to remember it
wasn't always this way
there were many films that blazed the
trail
for the cinematic crossovers we take for
granted
today now let's not beat around the bush
there's one movie crossover that is
undoubtedly
the most successful the first film in
the marvel cinematic universe to cross
over its iron man captain america and
thor franchises proved to be the thesis
statement for the most successful
franchise
of all time the avengers took the
unlikely case of making these disparate
franchises and characters work together
and made that the point of the whole
movie the idea that you shouldn't have
three franchises or three lead
characters
in one overstuffed film became the point
of the plot
thor odinson tony stark and steve rogers
spent most of the runtime of the movie
fighting with each other
while loki schemed around them this made
the inevitable moment where the team all
came together
so enormously rewarding the extended
fight scene that showed just how well
the team works together was just a big
victory lap
as marvel proved it could do the
impossible
and then spent the next decade proving
it again
and again godzilla and king kong are the
two most iconic movie monsters
of japanese and american cinema
respectively
they met way back in 1962 but that
showdown movie
didn't quite live up to the hype i mean
it featured the silly sight of
king kong being dropped on godzilla with
giant balloons
i mean sure it has like really solid
satirical elements about japanese media
at the time but
i'm getting off the plot here thankfully
2021 rectified the former cinema sins by
delivering a film that knew
exactly how to frame the massive
throwdown between cinema's greatest
titans
now if their third showdown could just
manage to
introduce some characters we actually
care about in between the
giant monster action that would be
pretty perfect
it's not working after the mcu hooked
everyone on the idea of
giant shared universe movies it was only
a matter of time before the two biggest
superheroes to ever grace the big screen
finally met the film reveled in just how
big the characters were
choosing to frame the pair as modern day
gods rather than
regular old superheroes zack snyder's
justice league
doubled down on this by drawing a direct
comparison between the likes of superman
batman and wonder woman to greek gods
like
zeus and ares now i just need to know
where to drop off the giant marble
statue of henry cavill i've been working
on
leave it to the directors behind the
wonderfully irreverent 21 jump street to
take one of the most ridiculous pitches
for a movie
and make an animated legend out of it
that's how the lego movie went from a
corporate cash grab
to a true celebration of all the fun
people have had with legos for decades
most notably it featured scenes where
every lego from star wars to harry
potter
showed up to play together then lego
batman took the formula
and doubled down on it by showing the
will our net batman
squaring off against the likes of sauron
and the gremlins
i don't know how they'll top it but you
just know they will
hopefully man that would be that would
suck if they didn't
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every star wars film has its own intense
following and for good reason
the franchise tells one of the most
ambitious stories ever put on screen
spanning generations both literal and
fictional that being said the styles and
stories from the 70s early 2000s and
modern day don't always fit together
seamlessly
that's why rogue one proved to be the
secret sauce that made it all fit
together
by featuring a movie with prequel
characters like bail organa
and og characters like mon mothma
using modern filmmaking like the sequels
it truly made the entire saga fit
together
perhaps no franchise has ever had a
crazier timeline than the x-men movie
series
multiple franchises origin stories and
characters of the same name plagued 20th
century fox's
movie universe until one film dared to
put it all together
x-men days of future past managed to mix
the old school x films with the newer
first class cast
this led to one of the franchise's
greatest outings with scenes
like the patrick stewart xavier meeting
the james mcavoy xavier
it truly made the franchise feel like
one big story
whose minor canon issues could be
forgiven by time travel shenanigans
perhaps the oldest argument in fandom
history is which star trek captain is
better kirk or picard
the movie star trek generations decided
to answer this question with the best
answer
possible kirk and picard this movie saw
william shatner and patrick stewart team
up for a big adventure
that passed the torch from the original
series movies
to the new tng film franchise now if
they could just do another movie with
all the other captains in a big avengers
style crossover
that'd be great m night shyamalan
is known for his twist endings more than
anything else his 2016 movie split may
have featured one of his greatest twists
to date by showing that it was secretly
a sequel
to his beloved film unbreakable the two
movies would come clashing together in
2019's glass
but nothing could quite live up to the
hype of seeing bruce willis again
as david dunn at the end of split
the second we saw a xenomorph skull in
predator 2 it seemed like the two most
famous
alien monsters were destined to meet on
the big screen
that destiny was fulfilled in avp alien
vs predator
the ambitious movie not only pitted them
against each other
but created a shared history between the
two massive franchises
unfortunately it couldn't put arnold
schwarzenegger's dutch
in the same room with sigourney weaver's
ripley and seeing as requiem pretty much
destroyed any enthusiasm for the shared
franchise
i don't think we ever will two of the
greatest slasher characters of all time
are undoubtedly freddy krueger from a
nightmare on um street
and jason voorhees with friday the 13th
a showdown between the two was in the
works for quite a few years
once it finally got moving fans got
hyped
unfortunately the final freddy vs jason
product was a little too
much on the campsite for the two horror
icons and a little light on the thrills
not to mention it just didn't seem to
get jason's character right
at all hopefully now that shared movie
universes
are all the rage again we might get to
see the likes of freddy go up against
jason
one more time with plenty of moments
that make us sleep with the lights on
once again
wreck-it ralph was a fun movie that
showed what the lives of video game
characters are like when we aren't
playing their games the first one
featured a ton of cameos ranging from
characters straight out of street
fighter
and super mario to the likes of qbert
and
sonic the sequel decided to go even
further by taking our characters into
the internet
and more importantly into the disney
vault in the film's most
legendary sequence newly minted disney
princess vanellope
met all of the other disney princesses
in a scene i can't believe it took them
this long to do on the big screen
it was such a big deal that many disney
fans walked out of the theater
not wondering when wreck-it ralph 3 was
coming out but the disney princesses
movie
man that's just corporate synergy right
there
i could waste time trying to explain
ready player one's pop culture bonanza
or i could just play the clip from the
final battle and ask you to count how
many movie and video game characters you
can see
as crazy as this is from the looks of it
the new space jam a new legacy
might be trying to top it by
mostly doing the same thing i guess
there are some crossovers that just
seemed impossible
i doubt anyone really thought warner
brothers and disney would ever let bugs
bunny and mickey mouse share a screen
together that's why it was so special to
see them together in who framed roger
rabbit
now this is one that we know will never
ever happen again but man
i can just i can just imagine how
awesome that sequel would have been
quentin tarantino has spent his entire
career making
all of younger quentin tarantino's
dreams come true
that is at its most readily apparent in
django unchained
where he not only creates a new
legendary cowboy named
django but has him actually meet the
original jango from the 1966 film
that was obviously a massive inspiration
for him
our world of giant movie franchise
characters crossing over for big screen
shaking good
times may seem like a modern thing but
it's actually been going on for a
long time perhaps the most notable
crossover film from the
golden olden days of cinema history is
abbott and costello
meet frankenstein the legendary comedy
duo who truly have
no modern day equals not only met the
legendary film version
of frankenstein's monster but they also
met the wolfman
and even bella lugosi's classic take on
dracula
before spoiler finishing it off with a
little invisible man action
the ill-fated dark universe hoped to
bring all of these characters together
but even their best
efforts probably wouldn't have equaled
this piece of cinema gold
well we got him
there are still some crossovers i'm
dying to see we'll probably never see
the terminator fight robocop
the pacific rim jaegers fight godzilla
or the justice league team up with the
avengers
still though we can dream