I view today’s obsession with Superhero comic movies as just being the modern version of ancient Greek & Roman mythological tales of their gods and demigods. No practical difference...................
A modern version of “Deus ex Machina” in which the “god” comes down and whips you know what on all the bad guys?
Some gods, Thor and Saturday Morning Hercules, made it into the comic book universe, and I guess Aquaman is Poseidon.
I saw Voyagers, sort of a Lord of the Flies in space movie. Teenagers sent into space so that their grandchildren could eventually colonize a successor Earth go wild and wreak havoc, as teenagers do. It was an interesting concept and well done, but it felt a little like so many other movies nowadays.
Science fiction could really stand out when it had to sneak into the culture through the back door. Now that it's everywhere it's become more ho-hum and expected. Also, in the Fifties, when science fiction really took off, anything was possible. There could actually be Martians and Venusians and our grandchildren would be going to distant stars.
Maybe some of that is coming back with the new billionaire astronauts and their projects, but for a while, I've gotten used to the idea that space is a very big and very empty place. Contact with advanced alien civilizations would be phenomenal, but one big reason is that it's so unlikely. If or when it happens, it would be more low-key than Star Wars or Star Trek, so those visions come to look as much like fantasy as science fiction.
Excellent point. Also the Norse Gods as well, which comic books have borrowed from.