WATCH: Idea Channel Answers the Question: Why Are There So Many Superhero Movies?

WATCH: Idea Channel Answers the Question: Why Are There So Many Superhero Movies?

Here's an idea: the recent influx of superhero movies has less to do with Hollywood studios being short on new ideas, and more to do with human history and storytelling going around full circle. Click on to watch the episode!

By TucksFrom2015 - Jun 13, 2014 07:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Other
Published on Jun 12, 2014
The past 15 years have produced a pantsload of superhero films. It's hard to even remember a time before Superman, Batman, Spider-man, and Captain America dominated the summer box office. So are movie studios just lazy and out of ideas? Or is something else going on? Super-heroes are authority figures who put their world in order. They are ALSO the products of the culture from which they originate. So what does it say about our cultural state of affairs that we willingly consume 6+ superhero flicks a year? Write your thoughts down below!

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SuperCat
SuperCat - 6/13/2014, 7:55 AM
Hollywood doesn't give a sh*t about storytelling. They know these movies generate money.

SuperCat
SuperCat - 6/13/2014, 7:55 AM
@ Nomis

Right!!
Desrow
Desrow - 6/13/2014, 7:57 AM
wtf 2 nomis
SuperCat
SuperCat - 6/13/2014, 7:58 AM
Brainiac13
Brainiac13 - 6/13/2014, 8:00 AM
Smart guy......great video.

Brainiac13
Brainiac13 - 6/13/2014, 8:04 AM
@Gusto

They made one last year........you're losing your Marbles old man.

OpticBlastWins
OpticBlastWins - 6/13/2014, 8:05 AM
money
EhMaybeSays
EhMaybeSays - 6/13/2014, 8:13 AM
6? Maybe 6 CBMs but at most only 4 are superhero movies which isn't that many and they show more quality than original works.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 6/13/2014, 8:14 AM
The days of the auteur is pretty much gone. When Hollywood hires a director passionate about the project he or she is working on, studio execs pretty much hamper their vision because they want some rushed sh*t. At the end of the day, it's a business. We have been lucky enough to get some good films though.
McGee
McGee - 6/13/2014, 8:32 AM
Real question...

Why hasn't there been enough Superhero skin flicks?


McGee
McGee - 6/13/2014, 9:01 AM
^^ I hated Superman Returns as well!


Here you go Gusto.

http://screenrant.com/metal-men-movie-dc-sonnenfeld-sandy-181329/
batz11
batz11 - 6/13/2014, 9:03 AM
Well said @SC!
sKeemAn
sKeemAn - 6/13/2014, 9:10 AM
Money and Technology are the key. Superhero films have never looked better than they have now. And yes they generate billions.
BlackPhillip
BlackPhillip - 6/13/2014, 9:29 AM
Why did he even bring up race? Did the Romans complain that all their heros were one color? How about the Scandinavians? or the Jews? or the Africans? And the Japanese?
McGee
McGee - 6/13/2014, 9:37 AM
Gusto...Just because it's Friday the 13th, doesn't mean you have to post pictures of Justin Bieber.
MightyZeus
MightyZeus - 6/13/2014, 9:38 AM
Because super hero movies are awesome. Seem's like comic book films are getting better anyway. Man of Steel, Captain America The Winter Soldier, DOFP, The Avengers.
McGee
McGee - 6/13/2014, 9:39 AM
@Ramiel

The Americans did.

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