Speilberg is wrong....

[A2K78]

about a bubble in superhero films:

http://moviepilot.com/posts/3592760

Interestingly some think that Civil War marks a peak in these films:

http://www.macleans.ca/culture/movies/we-may-have-reached-peak-comic-book

A little lesson in economics....supply and demand don't create bubbles, In this as long as there continue to be a supply of material the movie-going public would continue to consume this stuff. Make you wonder why you have so many big name actors/actresses gravitating toward these types of films...

 

[Ibonibo]

Most def. as it is Spielberg

I take my coat...

I think supply of material is not what is needed, but interest in the genre by movie goers.

Cowboy, hack and slash, romantic movies died too (to an extend)...

The überpoplularity of Superhero Movies will decline at one point...

 

[JKgo]

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"Speilberg"?

You know Spielberg made that comment almost a year ago, right? It's a bit of an old news, I'm afraid.

Anyways, I don't have a crystal ball, I can't tell what'll happen; but as long as Superhero films make money, than we will get them.

I must admit though, I do sometimes wish we'd get more "braver" blockbusters - there are one too many S.H movies nowadays in a calendar year. Two from Marvel, two from Warner, two from Fox - am I missing something else?

 

[UKMikey]

Fox possibly have another movie coming out in October featuring everyone's favourite ragin' Cajun Gambit.

Spielberg is just sore they chose Joe Johnston over him to direct the first Captain America movie. Just kidding but the popularity and critical acclaim of recent superhero films have made his Jurassic movies look somewhat prehistoric in comparison.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Speilberg Is Wrong

Absolutely right, it's Spielberg.

 

[JKgo]

Fox possibly have another movie coming out in October featuring everyone's favourite ragin' Cajun Gambit.

Spielberg is just sore they chose Joe Johnston over him to direct the first Captain America movie. Just kidding but the popularity and critical acclaim of recent superhero films have made his Jurassic movies look somewhat prehistoric in comparison.

...Gambit isn't happening, at least not this year.

http://collider.com/gambit-movie-release-date-fox-deadpool-2/

Prehistoric, eh? I see what you did there...

 

[A2K78]

Most def. as it is Spielberg

I take my coat...

I think supply of material is not what is needed, but interest in the genre by movie goers.

Cowboy, hack and slash, romantic movies died too (to an extend)...

The überpoplularity of Superhero Movies will decline at one point...

For superhero films to die the sci-fi/action genre would need to die first. As for westerns I blame the historical epics of 50's and 60's(10 Commandments, The Alamo,Cleopatra,etc) for its decline; Spaghetti Westerns was the brief shot in the arms.

 

[Samus]

Clickbait title again? Come on dude.

 

[TenEightyOne]

For superhero films to die the sci-fi/action genre would need to die first.

That doesn't alter the fact that today's @A2K78 armchair-economist lesson tells us that supply/demand don't cause bubbles. If one accepts that they exist (and not all economists do) and if one accepts that they're sometimes only retrospectively discernible (which most economists seem to) then one can't rule out supply and demand as the cause of some bubble types.

 

[NJPWmark]

Nah, I think SS was on the money. Time will tell I guess.

 

[UKMikey]

All bubbles burst. I don't know about superhero movies "not having the legs or longevity of the western" though. Blade 1 came out in 1998. the first Burton Batman movie was out ten years before that. Marvel alone are planning to release movies until at least 2028. Forty years is a pretty long time for a temporary bubble.

 

[JKgo]

....And the title still hasn't been fixed. Amazing.

Anyways, I don't have a crystal ball, I can't tell what'll happen; but as long as Superhero films make money, than we will get them.

To add to this, I think that as long as the finished products are of sufficiently high-enough quality that entertain their target audience then the S.H. sub-genre won't die out at all. Instead, I foresee further division of the genre into different sub-sets - and I think Marvel knows this too, seeing that several of their movies have experimented with tones and genre conventions.