SuperHero Movie Fad

 

Superhero movies have been dominating the box office for the past decade, what is the cause of this new niche? Well it’s pretty simple, comic books were huge in the past few decades. So how to get that crowd to spend more money? Simple, allow them to live out their fantasies as a child through a motion picture! However, it’s not that easy, those boys and girls are very finicky. Gone are the days of the whacky Batman and Robin show, and thank god for the departure of movies quality similar to the first three superman movies. In this modern era where bigger really is better, big budgets and big box office returns are needed.

            Super hero movies have been casting big stars to bring in more of a crowd using their fan base. X-men has capitalized on this strategy with actors and actresses (respectively) such as Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry, Ian McKellan, Jennifer Lawrence, James Marsden, the arbitrary but appreciated cameo of Stan “the man” lee, and many more. This helps to avoid corny acting in a role that is hard to make serious when your apparel looks like a rainbow threw up on your wet suit.

            Scripts seem easy to write for this genre since the story is already written, but that isn’t the case. Sure the story has already been written for many of the characters, however the problem is comic books can’t easily transfer into movies. As the movie Watchmen knows, trying to copy the graphic novel only turns out so well. So a little bit of improvisation, and new material is needed, which is a bit of a gamble at times. This has been shown beautifully by the new Fantastic Four movie. The key to a superhero movie is violence, action, and suspense. A movie is not a book. Long dialogues aren’t feasible because the subject of people in tights who can fly isn’t necessarily a great base for a moving dialogue. Which is why Batman is a successful franchise in this decade. He flies around, using cool gadgets and doesn’t talk all too much. With a catch phrase “I’m Batman”, you know the movie won’t be similar to the excessive and honestly boring dialogue in Avengers Age of Ultron.

Well I’ve got to go gang, more on this subject next week!

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