Do we have too many superhero movies?

[Gingerbread Demon]

It's a thought I keep having more and more.

Do we have too many of these kind of movies, comic book movies too at the moment at the expense of other genres or original ideas? I keep thinking that this so called popularity of geeky culture is killing movie making.

I mean I do enjoy the Marvel movies and all but feel a bit meh at the moment to see Civil War. It's like there's just too much of this stuff.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

No. When a good movie like Civil War has just come out, it's not too much.

 

[Kemaiku]

No, next.

 

[Greg Cox]

Nope. We're living in the Golden Age of superhero movies and I intend to enjoy it for as long as it lasts.

You have to remember, those of us who grew watching, say, those terrible CAPTAIN AMERICA tv-movies back in the seventies, have been waiting decades to see our favorite comic-book heroes finally done right on the silver screen. Now that we're actually getting what we've been waiting for since we were kids, I'm not about to go "Eh, that's enough. Next?"

 

[J.T.B.]

Do we have too many of these kind of movies, comic book movies too at the moment at the expense of other genres or original ideas? I keep thinking that this so called popularity of geeky culture is killing movie making.

I'm not sure what kind of movie making you mean, but superhero movies are the result, not the cause, of what corporate movie making has become. The days when Out of Africa and The Color Purple were competitive with Back to the Future and Rambo are long gone. Do I miss the days when a film like Gandhi had a bigger budget than The Wrath of Khan? Yes, I do. But times change.

Superhero movies don't interest me at all so I don't really know much specifically about them, but I have plenty of entertainment choices just the same.

 

[Greg Cox]

I don't know. Last time I checked, Hollywood had not stopped making art films, historical biopics, literary adaptations, etc. Heck, this summer alone we've gotten biopics of Hank Williams, Miles Davis, and Nina Simone, and at the height of summer blockbuster season no less. And I'm looking forward to the upcoming movie adaptation of Girl on a Train.

And even on the genre front, there's no shortage of straight science fiction films, horror flicks, espionage thrillers, romantic comedies, kid's animated flicks, and so on.

I'm curious: What kinds of movies do people think are being squeezed out by the current bounty of superhero movies?

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Most of the superhero movies lately have been pretty good but there are so many of them that they aren't really a special event anymore.

 

[bigdaddy]

Why is there no poll?

The answer is yes, I'm sick of seeing them everywhere! It doesn't matter if they are good anymore, they are meaningless and boring and bland and never take risks.

 

[Greg Cox]

But we should probably draw a distinction between "there are too many superhero movies and it's bad for cinema as a whole"" and "I'm personally bored with them."

Not the same thing.

 

[The Wormhole]

As much as I have my issues with the MCU and see the DCEU as a disaster waiting to happen, I don't think there's "too much" superhero movies, nor do I think these movies are hurting the cinema industry in anyway.

It doesn't matter if they are good anymore, they are meaningless and boring and bland and never take risks.

This is different from most movies how?

 

[Kai "the spy"]

The answer is yes, I'm sick of seeing them everywhere! It doesn't matter if they are good anymore, they are meaningless and boring and bland and never take risks.

For better or worse, I'd say WB/DC have taken quite a few risks in MoS and BvS. And, hell, Marvel took quite the risk with GotG. As did Fox with Deadpool (though not that big a big risk, considering the relatively small budget).

 

[MacLeod]

It's a thought I keep having more and more.

Do we have too many of these kind of movies, comic book movies too at the moment at the expense of other genres or original ideas? I keep thinking that this so called popularity of geeky culture is killing movie making.

I mean I do enjoy the Marvel movies and all but feel a bit meh at the moment to see Civil War. It's like there's just too much of this stuff.

Hollywood loves to play follow the leader, go back throught Hollywood history and there'll be era's when Westerns were being made by the dozen, then Sci-Fi films by the dozen. If a studio takes a gamble on a film from a drent genre and it's ahu hit all the oll follow suit. At the end of the day they are simply giving the cinema goers what they appear to want. If we stopped going to see a particular genre ilm the studios would stop making them

 

[Kahless the Unforgettable]

No.

What we have is too many companies who don't know what they're doing with their properties, and allowing directors to have too much control "reimagining" them or "putting their mark" on them. That's why Marvel's been so successful, whereas franchises like the Fantastic Four and most DC films are so awful by comparison.

 

[STEPhon IT]

I just don't want too many more 20th Century Fox, and Zack Snyder superhero movies. I think when they're done from the right filmmakers I think these movies had proven to be quite entertaining and for me thirsts for more.

 

[Gaith]

I can't buy a newspaper any day of the year without buying a sports section. A whole section of frivolity I don't care one bit about! Did you know there's more than 250 NFL games per season? And that's just one sport, not counting college football, even.

... So, is four or five superhero movies a year - as in less than one every two months - too many?

No.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Last year, we had Kingsman, Spy, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, The Man from UNCLE, SPECTRE, and Bridge of Spies. Do we have too many spy movies?

We've recently have had Jane Got a Gun, Slow West, The Hateful Eight, The Revenant, Bone Tomahawk, Forsaken, The Ridiculous Six, and there's the up-coming The Duel and The Magnificent Seven. Do we have too many western movies?

As @Greg Cox has asked before, which genre is left behind in favor of superhero movies? As we see, even the "dead" genre of westerns is actually alive and well.

 

[Greg Cox]

For better or worse, I'd say WB/DC have taken quite a few risks in MoS and BvS. And, hell, Marvel took quite the risk with GotG. As did Fox with Deadpool (though not that big a big risk, considering the relatively small budget).

Heck, I remember when people considered THOR a huge gamble.

""Realistic' heroes like IRON MAN or CAPTAIN AMERICA are one thing, but audiences will never accept a Norse god with a magic hammer. That's just too far-out for mainstream audiences."

 

[Tosk]

Easy question, the answer is no.

Are there too many rom-coms, dramas, sci-fi, comedies, or documentaries? Also no.

 

[Greg Cox]

Last year, we had Kingsman, Spy, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, The Man from UNCLE, SPECTRE, and Bridge of Spies. Do we have too many spy movies?.

And we have a new "Jason Bourne" movie coming out this summer . . .

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Most of the superhero movies lately have been pretty good but there are so many of them that they aren't really a special event anymore.

Thank you......... This is what I am trying to articulate.

There's so many that they are not special, they're just one in a long line.