With the release of about 500 comic movies this year and next, I noticed a new trend.
Back in the day....god I love that cliche, but back in the day Superhero's existed for one single purpose and that was to save the day from crime and criminals and monsters and aliens and all kinds of crazy shit.
The Superhero's were one dimensional and that was good enough for everyone, but now.....
The new generation of Superhero movies exist to show us almost solely the tortured souls these superdudes possess.
It all started with the Dark Knight. Man does that fucker need some Prozac. As the movies progressed Batman was featured less and Bruce Wayne was featured more. These movies were not about a superhero who happened to be Bruce Wayne, but rather Bruce Wayne and the pressure of being a superhero. So much pressure! So much overtime, so little pay.
The new Superman movie looks like the same thing. Human looking alien sent to Earth for the sole purpose of saving our stupid asses from all the stupid shit we do.
Listen to this Crash Test Dummies Song to learn about how hard it is too be Superman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihUIPlLw2ZE
Now we come to Iron Man; part 3 features Tony Stark barely ever in his Iron Man costume. Let's face it, the care free, smug attitude of Tony is way more fun than watching a CGI'd Iron Man beating up some random "bad guy".
So Iron Man does the opposite of those other films and instead of showing a tortured soul, although he does now suffer from panic attacks in part 3, we see how much fun he has being rich. Bruce Wayne was rich but not nearly as happy.
But Iron Man, like the others, is continuing this trend of keeping the Superhero out of the Supersuit. We are spending so much more time with the man behind the mask. I like this, but at some point this trend will grow old.
"Why so serious?!", asked the Joker. And I agree. Why so fucking serious guys?!?!!
I would love to see a superhero movie that plays like the Soprano's where the superdude goes to see Dr. Melfi and we watch these long, drawn out therapy sessions where he talks about being bullied and having self doubt and a small porn addiction and a hatred toward Mexicans or something.
Melvin Furd. Teased and tortured until he jumped out of a window and became....
The Toxic Avenger. A deformed, B-movie Superhero suffering from total radiation poisoning and fucking blind porno actresses.
We need a big budget movie version of this guy and watch him struggle with being bullied and how he overcame it simply by falling into toxic waste.
Coming SUMMER 2015 with a budget of $900 million.
