X-Men debuted in theaters in 2000, and since then just about any major superhero you can think of has been adapted into a movie. We've had three X-Men movies (plus a Wolverine spin-off), three Spider-man movies, two Fantastic Four movies, two Iron Man movies, a Daredevil, an Elektra, plus plenty more in the pipeline (Thor, the Green Lantern, Captain America). Not only have studios churned out multiple superhero movies each year, they've now resorted to "rebooting" existing franchises as if moviegoers are trapped in a cruel Groundhog Day-esque universe.

This isn't the first time a superhero movie has been remade in a short amount of time. In 2003, "Hulk" was released in theaters. Directed by Ang Lee and starring Eric Bana and Jennifer Connelly, it actually made a lot of money domestically ($132 million) but had a huge budget of $137 million. Considered a failure, someone had the bright idea to remake it five short years later, despite the fact that the first one wasn't really that bad to begin with. In 2008, we were presented with "The Incredible Hulk" starring Edward Norton and Liv Tyler. Its budget was $150 million and only made $135 million domestically. Although "The Incredible Hulk" received better reviews than the original "Hulk," it barely made more at the box office. Seems like the reboot idea was a failure, right?

It's a box office showdown that nobody cares about!

Except that multiple franchises are choosing to start over, even though their most recent film in the series came out not too long ago. So far in the pipeline we have X-Men: First Class scheduled for 2011, an "untitled Spider-man reboot" slated for 2012, and, God help us, a Fantastic Four reboot. Have none of these studio heads seen how disappointing Saved by the Bell: The New Class was? Nobody wanted to see some imitation Zack Morris strut around the hallways. They loved the original and didn't care to have some unknown new cast of characters ushered in as if the original never happened.

You sucked, new class

The problem isn't so much with the reboots themselves, it's the fact that studios aren't waiting around at all for the originals to get stale. They never really used to do remakes in the first place, and when they finally did, they remade movies that were 40 years old. Now it seems like the window of time is getting smaller and smaller -- no sooner does a movie get pulled from the theaters than you read about it getting "remade" for the following summer.

What do you think, are you getting sick of the incessant "reboots" of movies that are less than a decade old? Will you see the upcoming superhero reboots, or are you going to stay loyal to the originals?

Will you see the multiple superhero reboot movies coming out soon?