Can We Afford Superheroes?

[white avenger]

With the current proliferation of superhero movies, has anyone besides me noticed just how destructive they have become? Granted, the special effects are one of the big draws these days, whether it's Batman or any of the others, but, honestly, now, haven't the movies gone just a LITTLE too far?

 

[Dancing man]

I agree they suck and do no justice to the comics the only good one was V for Vendetta.

 

[white avenger]

Five by Five agrees: Someone hasn't seen Hancock!

Actually, it's batman that I haven't seen. Hancock is what prompted the question.

 

[Old Master 3.0]

When you compare today's superhero celluloid fare with the serials of yore, oh yes it most definitely has stepped over the line in terms of death and destruction.

But to be fair, the genre is really just reflecting what their comic book counterparts have been doing for decades. Filmmakers have simply decided to ramp up the action to meet the old standards.

Look at any superhuman battle in any comic book from any decade after the 1960's, and you'll see that a major consequence of those fights has always been lots of explosions, smoke, dust and rubble. And sometimes even corpses.

Granted, one doesn't always associate those things with Batman, but Hollywood never did turn a deaf ear to the sound of shuffling greenbacks....and so Batman isn't exempt from insanity overload.

 

[Cohen]

I think superhero movies stay true to how these events would unfold in current life. If the Joker were a real person, I don't see why he wouldn't use the tactics he used in the movie.

 

[ckg927]

I agree they suck and do no justice to the comics the only good one was V for Vendetta.

Alan Moore,who was the man behind the comic book version of V for Vendetta,would probably disagree with you on that count.

He all but disowned the movie version of his comic.

(Don't get me wrong;I liked the movie-but never read that comic.)

 

[Aleris]

I've never been a big fan of the superhero movies. Mainly because as much as they have their moralistic sub-plots and such I agree that they're going too far. With the idea of "bigger and better disasters for the ever growing bigger and better super powers for the super hero".

Which is why I'm loving The Dark Knight so much. There are no superpowers. It is all in the realm of what people could actually achieve should they have an huge supply of money (which is unrealistic in itself, but it's vaguely achieveable unlike super powers). Making super hero movies that are more about the psychology of the people involved and what they are capable of doing is always far more fascinating and devastating to me then any one guy in a fancy lycra suit with unrealistic abilities.

 

[Lou]

They DO seem a bit casual with their "Mass Destruction" for the average city!

 

[Lily]

I've always felt sorry for the hundreds of people that would have come out of work at the end of the day to find their cars all smashed up! But it's ok, cause the city is safe...I'd be fairly unimpressed with superheroes in that case