I guess it depends on how you define the word "flop" then.
If "flop" only defines a film that doesn't recoup costs, you're right.

But sometimes a film can have net losses and not be a flop.
I also think a film can recoup and still be considered a flop.

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Good god. Are there really that many comic book fans to continue to feed this?

I always find it funny when people say shit like that.

These days, with all the video games, cartoons, TV shows, and movies, you don't even have to be a comic book nerd to like superheroes. They're not some fad that's going to go away.

The Avengers and Dark Knight are in the top 5 all-time USA box office, Dark Knight Rises in the top 10, all three of the Spider-Mans in the top 25, Iron Man & Iron Man 2 in the top 35...

They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk to their seats; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. And they'll watch the movie and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come jspchief. The one constant through all the years, jspchief, has been super heros. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But super heros has marked the time. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come jspchief. People will most definitely come.

These films are being done in such a way that they don't need a large fanboy contingent. You don't need to be all that familiar with the source material anymore. I wasn't much of a comic book reader as a kid. I'm hooked on the genre though. Like everything else though, it'll ebb at some point. Just like the wave of martial arts films died out. They all have their moments within the "Action" umbrella.