Am I alone? Do we really need all these?
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dalbrech — 12 years ago(January 30, 2014 02:18 PM)
Hollywood always seems go overkill on a specific movie Genre after a couple of films in the genre make huge bank.
Remember the flood of sci films back in the late 70's after Star Wars?
Or all the Spy films that flooded the screen after the Bond films were huge hits?
What makes the comic book genre interesting is that the two big generators of Superheros Marvel and DC Comicsare both owned by big studios (Warners owns DC and Disney owns Marvel) which means that the studios do not have to buy any rights for the charecters..they own them (except,in the case of Marvel,for those that other studios bought the rights for before Marvel started producing it's own films). And combined with the fact that they still make lots of money,the Genre is not going away any time soon.
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fliboy486 — 11 years ago(April 08, 2014 02:10 PM)
just don't go. I'm a big fan who has stopped going to most except for spiderman and cap, so yeah there can be a burn out, but why would I complain when I can just stop going?
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comedyave — 11 years ago(April 22, 2014 06:35 PM)
Once upon a time I would have agreed with you. However, what I'm realizing is that people are looking at superheros as one particular genre, when in reality they are evolving into different genres. Marvel's coming out with Fantasy, tech thriller, Conspiracy, space opera, and heist. DC's coming out with Invasion-type. The only difference is we call them "superheroes" because no other type works. Did you see Frozen? Is Elsa a superhero? She fits all the main requirements. But no one would call Frozen a superhero movie. Is every action hero a superhero? Not all superheros have extraordinary powers. No one says "there are too many action movies." Is it something based on comics that's bothering you? What about Men in Black or Red? Heck, why don't we ban the novel itself?
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glassjhu14 — 11 years ago(April 22, 2014 07:37 PM)
I disagree. I think most people have a good understanding that the superhero movies that have been coming out over the last decade can be classified as a "superhero" genre. I think most people would term superhero movies as any movie that claims a character that started out in the comic universe, whether as a main character or as a side character. If we accept this as our definition, then we of course can't count Elsa as a part of the superhero genre.
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glassjhu14 — 11 years ago(April 22, 2014 08:26 PM)
I'd say genres are pretty flexible to begin with though. I mean, if you look at some of the classic westerns and then compare them to Cowboys and Aliens, can you really say that they're all part of the same genre? I'm not even sure how much genres actually help us in appreciating films.
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zeptron — 4 years ago(January 15, 2022 08:25 AM)
I know this thread was from a decade ago, but I want to say that at this point we may as well consider pretty much any action movie nowadays superhero films even if it doesn't have any superheroes in it since most of the main characters tend to behave and do the same stuff that superheroes do. If a "superhero movie" is about a guy who have super powers, you can make an argument that Fast and Furious movies are superhero movies too with the feats pulled off in those movies. The latest one had even more over the top stuff than the last few films. Hell, even John Wick is like a superhero at times. Even Mission Impossible could be considered an unofficial superhero movie, given how superhuman Ethan Hunt seems to be.