Help me understand the Super Hero genre

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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Comics I get as well as graphic novels - my challenge there is being overwhelmed by the explosion of the genre.

Well, like everything in movies, each genre has it's day. We all know once one movie does extremely well, it leads to more and more of the same. Its not any different with Super Hero films. I think its a vastly untapped genre and has about a 3% ratio of excellence. Most of the films have sucked and have totally missed the mark on many levels. I think the genre has always been with it, just the massive success of Spider-Man and Dark Knight have shined a light on it and with good reason because they're fantastic films. I think if "hollywood" had chosen to do well made, written, acted and faithful films, we'd have seen this explosion along time ago.