Is It Too Late to Save the Superhero Movie?

 

"his past weekend Batman v Superman collected both abysmal reviews and $420 million in worldwide ticket sales. Though its box office dropped steeply throughout the weekend, it still garnered an A-minus CinemaScore from 18-and-unders, suggesting it could have legs. But some comics fans and movie fans are arguing that artistically, the movie is a dead end, suggesting a long and difficult slog ahead for the DC cinematic universe. Meanwhile, Marvel movies chug along toward Civil War, heading for the kind of multiple-character, multiple-universe pile-up that turns this casual superhero fan off these stories. So where does the superhero movie go now? Is the only possible trajectory for superhero stories in the direction of bigger, louder, more complex? Is this DC story arc doomed from the get-go, despite its apparent success?"

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Slate roundtable on Batman v Superman and the future of the superhero movie.