User blog comment:ProfessorKilroy/Sony Announces "Venom" & "Sinister Six" Films/@comment-1713281-20131213150810/@comment-3317214-20131216162906

On the subject of quality, I'll point out that I loved Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World, and thought that the Wolverine and Man of Steel were pretty solid. And about the average number of superhero films a year, if you remove any six films the list I provided, you're still looking at an average of about 3.5 superhero movies a year.

Why do you feel the genre will be hurting in 6 years? We've roughly had an average of four movies a year for the last 11 years. Why should it hurt then?

I should point out that I hate the whole "genre" notion, and also that the "superhero genre", isn't that strict straight-foward a thing. It encompasses a lot of elements from other genres, and has the potential to essentially be labelled with a different genre, but has a superhero in it. The possibilities are pretty much endless. Thor is very fantasy/sci-fi, CA:TFA was a WWII film, and we're being told the sequel is a political thriller... Kick-Ass was a comedy as well, but is just as much a superhero film, as any other.

But seriously, what is a superhero film anyway? Don't all films have heroes? Some of them could even be described as "super", like for example, in the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins can turn invisible, he goes on an adventure, saves some people, there's plenty of action, and just about as much fantasy as the Thor films.

It's pretty much a superhero film, and the history of films is filled with stuff like this, and we keep making them. Re-inventing and re-imagining them. Telling new stories, even though, they're all in essence, the same story. And we're still here. Getting excited about more Superhero movies, at a time when the mainstream audience is really starting to get into franchises such as the Avengers.

Also, it doesn't seem like Marvel plans on expanding on their 2-a-year scheme soon. They're only just settling into it, and besides, 3 movies a year is huge for a studio like Marvel. Maybe too huge. At least for the next few years... And Sony has announced a bunch of movies, but the release dates they're announcing are all two years apart. Fox is only just settling into a 1-a-year kind of scheme now, and DC's doing who knows what...