[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I believe it was the late Robert Osbourne, host of TCM who said it best.
In the early days of film, the public were raised on the classic literature, so the movie producers made movies of the classics.

Today’s youth has been raised on comic books and “graphic novels”, so the producers make movies of the same.

As I have said in the past, fifty years ago a superhero movie would be made on the cheap, in black and white, crappy special effects, a true “B” movie, to be shown at a drive-in theater double feature as the bottom half of HERCULES AND THE MOON MAIDENS.

Today they are given the top billing, financing and CGIs.
Our youth today truly live in an age of fantasy.

[discostu]

Actually that’s because in the late 70s Lucas and Spielberg proved that with an A budget and A marketing B movies can make A money. Roger Corman has gone on at length about how what really hurt his business was that the exploitation he was making came to rule the box office, his budget could no longer compete.

[RayChuang88]

But why did comic book movies suddenly become popular? I think the huge critical and financial success of the first two Spider-Man movies in 2002 and 2004 did a LOT to increase the popularity of the genre. Later, the success of Iron Man in 2008 confirmed that comic book movies--if properly done--can be critical and huge financial successes.

It appears that the reviewers so far really like the Wonder Woman movie--after all, Gal Gadot literally stole the show in Batman vs. Superman.

[TexasTransplant]

*** “Our youth today truly live in an age of fantasy” ***

I do the same thing when I go to the Beach during Spring Break

(Over 60 but not Dead)