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Volterra_90 on 20 November 2017
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Goodnightmoon said:

Hynad is right, there are tons of non super hero movies released every single week.

Problem is movie goers are only interested in the big spectacular blockbusters that get massive marketing, so they have the impresion that superhero movies are half of what cinema has to offer right now, if they were really interested on cinema they would realize its quite a minority actually and if they stopped paying to watch so many superhero movies then probably Hollywood would be investing more time and money in blockbusters with new ideas.

Agreed with the first sentence, the cinema has much, much more to offer besides superhero movies. Disagreed with the last part, at least with the generalization that every superhero movie is the same and doesn't have new ideas. It's a genre, so a movie that represents that genre could be innovative or not. 

Actually, superhero movies is a genre that I pretty much enjoy so I'm glad that this "boom" happened. Why? I find them pretty entertaining to see, some of them are thematically rich and interesting. And at least with the MCU there's a pretty good character development which makes you invested in those characters, something the DCEU is totally... unaware of. 

But, well, I can understand that people who don't like superhero movies might be totally tired about them XD. But I honestly feel that there's some films of this genre that could be enjoy from people who don't normally like these movies. The Dark Knight was probably a movie which was loved for people who doesn't really care about superheroes. Seeing Thor: Ragnarok recently, I feel that it's a movie that can also be enjoyed if you dislike the genre and like the comedy bits. 

Last edited by Volterra_90 - on 20 November 2017