Help me understand the Super Hero genre

innerSpaceman · 07-25-2008, 09:20 AM

I just like a good fantasy movie. Also something about basically the same story over and over again, but seeing how it's told by different artists in slightly different forms. The origin story especially is the same same same thing, over and over ... but the others also boil down to three or four tales told repeatedly, in slightly different styles.

I like the mythos stuff and good vs. evil boiled down to basics stuff. But not so much that I'd ever read a comic book.

Nope, it's the fantasy film fantastic stuff and visuals that appeals to me, and the superhero / comic book movie is just a subset of that.

BTW, the best movie for comic book superhero mythos understanding and exploration - which gave me a new appreciation for the movie genre I was into for different reasons - is M. Knight Shyamalan's underseen Unbreakable with Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis. Fantastic.

07-25-2008, 09:20 AM	#16
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	I just like a good fantasy movie. Also something about basically the same story over and over again, but seeing how it's told by different artists in slightly different forms. The origin story especially is the same same same thing, over and over ... but the others also boil down to three or four tales told repeatedly, in slightly different styles. I like the mythos stuff and good vs. evil boiled down to basics stuff. But not so much that I'd ever read a comic book. Nope, it's the fantasy film fantastic stuff and visuals that appeals to me, and the superhero / comic book movie is just a subset of that. BTW, the best movie for comic book superhero mythos understanding and exploration - which gave me a new appreciation for the movie genre I was into for different reasons - is M. Knight Shyamalan's underseen Unbreakable with Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis. Fantastic.
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