Superheros: A dying fad?
I think it's safe to say, that Superhero movies have really shaped the action-adventure genre. With break throughs like: The Dark Knight, Iron Man, and others. Looks like there is light at the end of the tunnel for this genre. Or is there?
the much anticapated Watchmen hit theaters last week, and it has been described in a very good manner. But it's box office performance is anything, but impressive. It hasn't been the breakthrough people thought it would it be. Which raises an intresting question: Are superheros not so super anymore? There have been plenty of flopes. Fantastic Four, The Hulk, The Incredible Hulk, Superman Returns, X2, X-Men: Last Stand, and all the Blade films.
It is a common fact that when a genre is done to death, the taste of the audience goes elsewhere. Which could put Superheros in hot water. And not just on the big screen( I can't stand Heroes anymore).
Only time will tell.
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I really don't think that it is a dying fad, I think there were several things The Watchmen lacked for it to be popular with a young American crowd. With movies like Spiderman, and the X-men movies you had dialog and plots that were reachable to a wider generation of people including children. These movies were a marketing cash cow. The toys, the hype, and sponsors like McDonald's, of course these movie's success were no less than guaranteed. Parents and children, young adults, teens all had something that these movies appealed to. From what I have read and the people I personally talked with it seems that the movie as a whole had created an uncomfortable feeling. It was geared towards adults and fans of the comic books. Everything from the dark themes and concepts expressed to Dr. Manhattan's nudity seemed to drive people from the theaters. It was not something you could bring a child to, it was not a light and fluffy take-a-date movie. I personally felt like it was better than most of the cookie cutter superhero flicks i have seen, and unlike most of the others i had an overwhelming desire to run home and curl up with one of my favorite graphic novels and reread it all from the start.
I think the superhero fad goes beyond Hollywood.
I was born in '82 and when I look back at my childhood, X-Men, Spiderman, and Batman were all part of my saturday morning cartoon schedule. All my friends watched X-men, Batman, and Spiderman; everyone I knew watched X-men, Batman, and Spiderman.
The Hulk? Fantastic 4? They had their Saturday morning cartoons as well, but even their cartoons weren't up to X-men standards.
The Watchman looked like a good movie, I still want to see it... I just never got around to it. No X-men movie will ever fall into the "I never got around to it" category... they could make a movie for each individual x-men comic/cartoon episode and I would pay my $8.75 to watch every last one of them.
It's not that I especially enjoy superhero movies, or the superhero theme in general, but my entire generation was glued to the TV every Saturday morning watching X-men.
The Watchman looked like a good movie, I still want to see it... I just never got around to it. No X-men movie will ever fall into the "I never got around to it" category... they could make a movie for each individual x-men comic/cartoon episode and I would pay my $8.75 to watch every last one of them. movie online
not at all. if you rmember back in the 90s.. there were barely any superhero movies out there... now we have spiderman, xmen, watchmen, etc. def not dying
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