Timeline for Why are there so many superhero movies made in recent decades?
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| Oct 3, 2019 at 6:14 | comment | added | TK-421 | @Vishwa I think that was the main problem - previously, like with Clooney following Keaton and Superman III and IV - the sequels where made terrible. Nolan made a great sequel and Iron Man took sequels to the next level, making a cinematic universe, and maybe this is what helped this rise in popularity. | |
| Oct 3, 2019 at 5:54 | comment | added | Vishwa | @TK-421 I think Keaton did a pretty decent job in his Batman role. yes, Nolan made it more mainstream. I read somewhere that even Clooney hated his role | |
| Oct 2, 2019 at 16:15 | vote | accept | Neith | ||
| Sep 30, 2019 at 9:04 | comment | added | TK-421 | Yes, Superman was a success in 1978, but the next parts of that series went down in quality, the same with Batman, with Batman and Robin almost destroying the superhero genre for the whole generation. As I said, it required Nolan's first Batman and first Iron Man to change the perspective of the superhero movies from spandex/niche movies to gritty, realistic movies, which went to mainstream | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 8:36 | comment | added | komodosp | I'm not sure the culture change is enough to explain it. Both Batman and Superman enjoyed success in the late 20th century thanks to being big budget & high quality productions. And I would say a large proportion of people who went to see (say) The Avengers had never heard of Thanos before the recent movies he appeared in. | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 7:16 | history | answered | TK-421 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |