You can have decent drama in Hero movies.
You can ask profound questions in Hero movies.
You can explore Good and Evil in Hero movies.
All of that is nice.
But we don’t actually have a lot of movies about how to be Human. How to make a marriage. How to raise kids. How to be good at your job. People want excitement and explosions and cosmic fluctuations from Beyond. That doesn’t help us build a better society.
Look around. Almost no one is living in reality. Almost no one is actually raising the next generation. There are a lot of people completely adrift today — young and old.
Enough with the Comic Book movies. I’m a long-time nerd, and I have over a thousand comic books in my basement. Many science fiction movies on DVD. Large book collection, a good portion of which is science fiction. But I look around I see people who don’t distinguish reality from fantasy very well, and don’t have a handle on personal responsibility. Everybody wants to a victim. Everybody wants someone magical to show up and rescue them.
Too much fantasy in the world today.
Fantasy is coming to the real world faster than the movies can make. AI, CRISPR, quantum computing, Transhumanism, VR, etc.
Respectfully disagree.
I would say there is too few INSPIRATIONAL fantasy out today. Consider the original Star Wars. If went on to inspire generations to consider STEM. Many of the radical ideas in those movies are fact today, the concept of honor, good and evil made that trilogy stand out. Now the crap that followed was, well, ... crap. But there is a place for good fantasy. The sad part is that it is rare, and with SJW’s out there, there is less and less.
What’s more people love going to these movies but still deride those who’ve ever read a comic book yet the plots of these films are much much dumber and simpler than actual comic book storylines.
Giant sky-beams. Magic brain controls that disappear when the big baddy is killed off. Hero on hero fights every 15 minutes. NO portrayal of their working life in their alter egos, etc.
The movies are made by people raised on a generation of music videos with plots to match.