10 Reasons The Comic Book Movie Fad Is Here To Stay
7. They Are All About The Spectacle
When you take a look at the highest-grossing movies of the last few years, its easy to discern one common characteristic among them: massive spectacle. Home theatre systems grant viewers unparalleled sound and picture quality. The Internet provides a near limitless fountain of entertainment. Cinematic television series like Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, and True Detective seem intent on keeping audiences clued to their couches at home. Movies dont have the same monopoly on our attention they once did. For a cinematic genre to thrive in the modern age, it needs to promise larger than life spectacle. Few genres possess innate capacity for spectacle that comic book movies do. They originate from a medium that emphasizes the use of eye-catching images to draw in readers. Superheroes possess powers that can bend time, defy physics, and alter reality. The genre contains a limitless potential for creative displays of kinetic action across a nearly infinite scale. Luckily, CGI and other special effects can now keep up with the demands of the genre. When it comes to using superheroes to tell cinematic stories, modern filmmakers are limited only by their imaginations. The promise of massive spectacle will keep fans coming for decades to come.
