question of the day: Would you enjoy an action/comic-book movie franchise that gave us two or four small movies in a single year rather than one huge one every four years?

It’s not a dumb idea at all. In fact, it’s brilliant. For the estimated $125 million that was spent to produce X-Men: First Class, for instance, we could have had two $62 million movies, or four $31 million movies. Yes, they’d be smaller movies... but it’s the characters we love, isn’t it, before the enormous FX? I know I’d rather spend more time with James McAvoy’s Charles Xavier and Michael Fassbender’s Erik Lehnsherr, even if it meant giving up a few explosions. And it might mean we could get to know some of the other mutant characters better than a single movie allows time for.

Of course, such a serialization of movies would make them more like TV, and Hollywood is doing its damnedest -- such as going IMAX and 3D -- to differentiate itself from TV these days. So this will probably never happen. But it’s interesting to think about?

Would you enjoy an action/comic-book movie franchise that gave us two or four small movies in a single year rather than one huge one every four years? If not, why not?

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