Our biggest PET Peeves superhero movie
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For all the tales of fatigue of superheroes and formulated movies – and I don’t have to disagree with anything – superhero movies remain incredibly popular and are still among my favorite watching and rewinding movies. The action! The bombing! Patetic tries to turn it into a serious genre for serious adults, instead of admitting that everything is stupid! Aren’t there great superhero movies?!
Or some of them are. Others … Well, can’t be all Winter soldier or Lego BatmanS
Based on my own experiences and some very passionate reviews from my colleagues with Riot writers, here are the superhero movie tropes that we could do without. There will be spoilers, but most of the films I discuss are at least a few years old, so we hope I don’t ruin a day.
James Gunn, Kevin Fage – keep notes!
Where did the women go?
Superhero films have undoubtedly improved to give women a role beyond a manipulative girlfriend, a sexy villain and a dead mom. Unfortunately, they also stick to the outdated idea that women can best serve the plot by dying, so the male character has something to be angry. This includes Vanessa Carlis in Deadpool 2Rachel Daues in The dark knightand Aunt May in There is no way at homeS Because if there is one thing that Spiderman is missing all these years, this is a dead parent figure to get away.
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Even if the movie does not literally kill a female character, he can get out of his way to remove her. Returning to the Dark Knight trilogy, Jim Gordon’s son gets much more attention than his daughter, though he said the daughter is Slightly known and Mildly important to Batman’s franchise. What’s the name? Branda? Barbie? I’m sure I will remember in the end. Earlier from Nolan anyway.
Bland Romance
So many films about superheroes (and, just, movies), they need to wear a heterosexual romance in their somewhere, even if the story can move perfectly well (or even better) without it.
It is obvious that everyone’s threshold for what is “meaningless” or “poorly developed” romance is different and I suspect that mine is more than most. However, if there is a romance that fans who are not me think is nonsense, this is Steve Rogers and Sharon Carter in Civil warS
Unlike Steve and Peggy’s relationship in The first avengerHe who was the same as the movie, Steve and Sharon seemed to be kissing mostly by the fact that her great-grandmother had previously kissed him, which was not enough to hook romance, and also somehow strange.
Of course, the real reason has happened, because they date into the comics, which brings me to the final pet …
Who is even this person?
The superhero movie will never be a comic book remake. It’s just not possible, whether for practical reasons, because something about the comic is not getting older because they are different media or because the makers of films have a different vision. There is nothing in its essence that it is wrong with the change of the source material, but this must be done in a way that makes sense and honors the original spirit and intention as much as possible.
For example:
To have a black man to play perry whit in Steel? No problems there. Having a “scout boy” Superman kills thousands of people? Problems! Big problems!
Doing a movie that focuses on the villain instead of the character? Cool. Disposing of an established and beloved villain in favor of an original character so far? What did you think, Catwoman??
Setting a character design for practical reasons? Fair enough. Do you give the audience a giant, boring powder cloud for thirty seconds at the end of a movie that spent all the time of performance, promising one of your company’s most famous and distinct villains? Give us a galactus and his stupid hat, The rise of the silver surfer!
And there you have it, the secret formula for how to make a good superhero movie: respect your characters and respect their relationship. Who knew it was so easy?
Do you have your own favorite for superheroes? Come on Bluski Oshaw!
