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What Spielberg said about superhero movies going "the way of the western

posted 8 years ago by DarthBill
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I know it's a little old but -

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/steven-spielberg-predicts-superhero-movies-819768

Is it weird that I'm actually waiting for the day that the superhero movie craze burns out & is replaced by something else? I like superheroes, always have, I enjoy comics, I've enjoyed at least some of the superhero films that have been coming out for over a decade now, but it's starting to feel like overkill, along with Hollywood's general over-reliance on franchise power.

It's not that I've come to hate the superhero film, I just think it needs a break.

[–] Picnic10 8 years ago

Superhero movies tend to be popular when either the economy's not massively strong or there's been some big terrorist incident and people want to see a safer form of one.

Explains the very creation of many cartoon characters / comic books in the Great Depression meets WW2 1930s.

Explains why relatively steady, upbeat mid 80s had some of the greatest 'stuff' eg The Goonies, Labyrinth.

[–] IceboxMovies 8 years ago

He's right. Not only is the superhero trend a total fad, but there's going to be so many of them that flop eventually that it's going to cause the studio system to change drastically.

[–] purplebear17 8 years ago

And make more risky movies?

[–] phclndu 8 years ago

Mr. Spielberg is right.
I'm completely sick of superhero movies. It oversaturated Hollywood.

[–] Cyclo Rider 8 years ago

What can replace superhero movies?

Nothing.

[–] Cognoscente (2464) a year ago

Lesbian action movies.

[–] cold_sky 8 years ago

Westerns took something like 50 or 60 years to fizzle out. Not sure what he's on about.

[–] Sidha108 (2364) a year ago

It’s high time for high-quality dramas to make a comeback. I watched the Robert Zemeckis movie Flight not too long ago and thought about how big-budget exciting drama movies like that aren’t made anymore. Movies like The Social Network seem to have disappeared as well.

[–] ebhaynz (3537) a year ago

I agree 100%