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Comcast just wants to be hated more by consumers... I mean Disney owns Marvel and as fan they need to control/movie rights to X-men, Deadpool, etc. I’d love to

• ghaff 8y ago
  It's entirely possible that we're at peak superhero and/or Marvel superhero. But, sadly, probably not given that it's the sort of thing that works well in international markets.
  • oblio 8y ago
    There's an overabundance of super hero movies, but I'm not sure they'll ever go away, unlike Westerns. There's waaay too much source material, and waaaay too varied for it to not become a constant genre. And since now we actually have the special effects to present things properly, the draw will always be there.
    • megaman22 8y ago
      Have westerns gone away? I recently started Netflix, and there seems to be an enormous number of TV series and second-tier new movies that are western-themed available there.
      • krageon 8y ago
        This is no doubt Netflix in the US? Internationally, I've not picked up such a trend.
        • ghaff 8y ago
          Westworld (HBO) isn't a Western per se but it is a Western setting (exclusively so in S1). Godless. Longmire. It's definitely not the staple that it was at one time in the US but it's certainly not extinct. Which is what I meant by my upthread comment. I don't expect or wish superhero movies to go extinct. I'm sure they won't as they have antecedents that are literally ancient. (Greek, at least, mythology.) I just wish there wan't such a glut of them and that they didn't tend to incorporate so many of the annoying features of typical modern action movies.