The Price of The Popularity of Superhero Movies

I remember a time when we'd be lucky to even have a superhero movie. The idea of having one superhero movie and another the year after was unheard of.. The only superhero void we had at the time were in animated products like the Timmverse, X-Men: The Animated Series, Spider-Man: The Animated series, etc. If you'd ask me in the late 90's if superhero films were going to boom as it has been I'd say you're crazy. But boy has it ever.

Superhero films today have become so popular that even Japan has jumped on the bandwagon with One Punch Man and My Hero Academy. Yet, as the old saying goes, fame comes with a price.

You'd think with superhero movies being as popular as they are it should make the superhero fandom happy about it. Yet scaringly enough it just ends up dividing the fanbase even more. Granted the Marvel and DC fandom has always had a rivalry but there was a sense of unification back when superhero films were so scarce. But its now the equivalent of an ugly family squabble. And you're like that little kid who just want the fighting to stop.

I remember someone, not mentioning names, got so fed up with the ordeal that it ruined their enjoyment for anything superhero related. Then you have others who wished superhero films didn't become as popular as it has.

Personally speaking, despite my own personal grievances, I like that the superhero movies are where it's at. Yet I feel it could be more than what it is. I wouldn't mind a director taking a superhero movie into a fresh direction. Like how Deadpool is doing. We are even seeing original superhero material from All Superheroes Must Die and I'd hope that more original superhero material gets put out. The superhero genre shouldn't just be about capes and costumes or superpowers. It should be about taking your imagination and shape it into something greater than you've expected. It doesn't have to copy the Marvel/DC formula. That's the kind of freedom a filmmaker's creative imagination should have.

And on a fan perspective. If you like the movie, that's fine, if you hate it, that's fine. While someone doesn't share the same view it's not worth getting riled up cause at the end of the day, it is just a franchise. And you should continue to show appreciation to the franchise that you love, regardless of whomever says different.