Timeline for Why are there so many superhero movies made in recent decades?
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| Nov 5, 2019 at 16:15 | comment | added | Neith | @GordonBennett en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(1966_film) | |
| Nov 5, 2019 at 14:09 | comment | added | GordonBennett | What's that movie in 1966? | |
| Nov 1, 2019 at 12:20 | answer | added | Melissa Cavanaugh | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 5, 2019 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackMovies/status/1180452707385200640 | ||
| Oct 4, 2019 at 3:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 3, 2019 at 5:51 | comment | added | Vishwa | @Mithoron maybe not a textbook definitive answer, but IMHO, this is obviously answer-able. if we discard TK-421's and John's answers, there is bunch of interesting ideas in above comments. | |
| Oct 2, 2019 at 17:54 | comment | added | Mithoron | @Vishwa Because there's no definite answer. | |
| Oct 2, 2019 at 16:15 | vote | accept | Neith | ||
| Oct 1, 2019 at 12:04 | vote | accept | Neith | ||
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| Oct 1, 2019 at 7:39 | comment | added | Vishwa | How can this fall under Primarily Opinion Based? | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 18:41 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 15 | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 15:13 | comment | added | pboss3010 | I would say people have always enjoyed elements of the superhero movie. Captain America isn't too different than traditional action movie heroes, for example. Perhaps it's simply money, it costs more to come up with and advertise an original story than adapt a comic book character. | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 7:16 | answer | added | TK-421 | timeline score: 10 | |
| Sep 28, 2019 at 21:48 | comment | added | Mithoron | One thing here is maturation of comics as medium and their getting to mainstream. Another thing is evolution of visual medium, from short stories fitting into two hours to complex structures and long storylines (still broken into parts though). | |
| Sep 28, 2019 at 11:51 | comment | added | MissouriSpartan | Because studios are running out of ideas and originality and super hero films are the “final line” of originality before an endless wasteland of reboots and cheap sequels that aren’t based on original works........ | |
| Sep 28, 2019 at 8:15 | comment | added | sanpaco | Money money money money | |
| Sep 28, 2019 at 3:55 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 28, 2019 at 1:17 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | This is an interesting question that might be hard to answer. Obviously they make huge amounts of money, as Darth Locke mentioned. Basically, franchises, old and new, are very popular these days. In the past it might have been that people would get bored or confused by too many movies set in the same universe with the same characters. Now, that’s clearly not a problem. What’s changed? I don’t know, but my guess is the Internet. It makes it possible to research and better understand complicated franchises like the MCU, and you can participate in a fandom, etc. | |
| Sep 28, 2019 at 0:52 | comment | added | Darth Locke | Not an answer just an opinion, I think there is a market for it, because so many people feel like they need a hero and/or idealist mythology one way or another, because things are so polarizing and the future seems dire. With that said, some super hero films are non-traditional so, we're still celebrating the anti-hero or a non traditional approach to super heroes too! | |
| Sep 28, 2019 at 0:35 | history | asked | Neith | CC BY-SA 4.0 |