Posted on 05/14/2009 12:02:47 PM PDT by JLS
Superheroes are starting to bug me
All those Sharpie-bright spandex boys have helped Hollywood off an awkward hook
Tags: Batman, Comic books, Spider-Man, superhero, X-Men No disrespect to Wolverine, who’s the hottest Canadian at the box office since Mary Pickford (even if they do need an Australian to play him), but I wonder about this superhero business. They’ve been cleaning up at the multiplex ever since the dawn of the millennium: Spider-Man. X-Men. Batman. Iron Man. The mid-20th-century long-underwear guys are bigger than ever in the 21st. Truly this is the Age of the Superhero. And it’s beginning to bother me.
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Another Steyn column to ping the list about.
Then you should enjoy the Incredibiles, because the Superheroes banished from superhero work due to escalating legal lawsuits.
Mark, the genre brings in millions, if not billions of dollars overall.. why change something that works?
I would rather have mindless superhero movies than Michael Moore movies.
Special effects pass the level of story telling and the result
is predictable.
Some good cowboy flicks would be great. The last decent was was Tombstone 15 years ago or more. However you’re right about making movies that sell.
Check oout my TNT western, CROSSFIRE TRAIL, starring Tom Selleck...
I'm off to the comic book store to buy the latest issue of Islamophoboman.
Being one of those eggheads that collected comic books (and still do) I love the films and hope they keep coming. I just hope that they stay out of politics and keep it fun the way it is suppose to be. No more Odumbo with Spiderman...Yech!!!
“Open Range” was pretty decent.
Both Duvall and, suprisingly, Costner helped move the story along at a decent pace.
The showdown at the end was quite good, as well.
I’m looking forward to the new Tarantino film, Inglourious Basterds, or 1001 ways to kill Nazis.. now that is some fun..
The critic James Bowman thinks the current vogue for big screen superheroes helps to “isolate and quarantine heroism in fantasy-land.” “Heroism” is what people who’ve been bitten by radioactive spiders do. Until that happens to you, best to steer clear. And so a world of superheroes leads to a world without heroes. . . . Now the conventional romantic hero is all but extinct, and as giants patrol the skies those of us on the ground are perforce smaller. In The Incredibles, there’s a famous line aimed at the feel-good fatuities of contemporary education: when everyone’s special, nobody is. The failure of storytelling in today’s Hollywood teaches a different lesson: when everyone’s super, nobody’s a hero.
The one really good superhero movie was “The Incredibles.”
I thought Appaloosa was great. Check it out.
Memorable Quote:
Allison French: You're a b@$+@rd! Don't listen to him. He tried to put his hands on me when I showed him our house.
Everett Hitch: No, Virgil. I did not.
Virgil Cole: No, Allie. Everett didn't do that.
Allison French: You believe him over me?
Virgil Cole: That's correct.
Another Scene, Hitch and Cole are both wounded on the ground:
Everett Hitch: That was over quick.
Virgil Cole: Everybody could shoot.
These films seem to be just a short-cut to actual creativity—especially since the ones that are just re-telling the same stories again and again [see: Batman, Star Trek].
One doesn’t have to examine this phenomenon too long to find parallels in the rest of our culture.
I recall Crossfire. Well done.
That does look good.
I’m sure the hippie liberals will just love(sic) that one. :->
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