The genre survives, although it doesn’t flourish. PATH #1: The Dark Knight doesn’t kill the superhero genre. So where does this leave superhero movies? Are they so over? If not, what kind of superhero film will replace the Dark Knight model? If so, what will take their place? My ideas are below the fold… I agree with Scott that the ass-kicking part is the least interesting part of this kind of film. This is the thread that Scott describes in his article: the one where the superhero runs after the villain for the first two-thirds of the movie, then they finally have a showdown in which the villain and superhero are revealed to be “not so different,” and then the superhero kicks the villain’s ass. The Dark Knight may have been so good that it ended a certain type of superhero movie thread. But I kind of have to agree with Scott on some level. Okay, so we all know that’s not going to happen. I guess there won’t be anymore superhero movies, then. Scott, one of the main film critics of the New York Times, superheroes are SO OVER.
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