The Soulless 'Blockbusters'

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by LegacyCosts

However, I am so bored of superhero films at this point, I'll probably stop seeing them after x-men. I didn't bother with superman, looked like balls.

I'm not bored with superhero movies if they're done RIGHT--
The problem is, Warner never does do them "right": At the back of its mind lie fears installed by their own Cartoon Network school-bullying of 70's Superfriends, and now they start to get stage fright and cold feet at the very mention of Green Lantern or Aquaman.
(Although they did actually manage to reconcile themselves with a print-comic friendly version of the Wonder Twins, in one episode of Smallville....And even then, they were portrayed as comic annoyances.)

So, Superman and Batman must be "Re-interpreted", to try and raise their own bars set by Tim Burton, Richard Donner and The Highbrow Guy Who Hates Comics, and each incarnation of DC must be more "unique" than the last....Or, maybe they've just told us the Krypton and Gotham origins too many danged times.
OTOH, we know absolutely nothing about Thor or Captain America's origins, so (even if Thor 2 has almost nothing new to say) Disney/Marvel can go in, keep themselves reasonably sacred to canon, and approximate the same appeal the characters had for comic readers...Unless, of course, they try to "deconstruct" the hero like they did with IM3.

But it was not so much Man of Steel that taught us this year's lesson about summer blockbusters, as The Lone Ranger:
Shaddup and tell the story WE know, nobody's interested in your being a danged showoff.