Is it time for Superhero films to enter the Reconstruction Era?

[Conrad Gray]

Alright, so the Watchmen is finally adapted. The Dark Knight is as close as we'll get to The Dark Knight Returns on the silver screen, in this decade at least. So now that we've gotten the grim and gritty stuff out of the way, is it time for superhero films to adapt the post-deconstruction period of comic books? I want to see Astro City already!

[WyldCard4]

Alright, so the Watchmen is finally adapted. The Dark Knight is as close as we'll get to The Dark Knight Returns on the silver screen, in this decade at least. So now that we've gotten the grim and gritty stuff out of the way, is it time for superhero films to adapt the post-deconstruction period of comic books? I want to see Astro City already!

I think Kingdom Come will come along if DC ever gets its stuff together.

As for the rest, impossible to say if movie trends will follow comic trends.

[Darrell D.]

Alright, so the Watchmen is finally adapted. The Dark Knight is as close as we'll get to The Dark Knight Returns on the silver screen, in this decade at least. So now that we've gotten the grim and gritty stuff out of the way, is it time for superhero films to adapt the post-deconstruction period of comic books? I want to see Astro City already!

Nah, I'd say with the slate of Marvel films on the the horizon, films with original vision, there actually may be more intelligent exploration of the genre.

[lboinyamouf4sho]

i wonder when the porn biz will cash-in on the genre?? i mean look at the budgets for those pirates movies, there must be an audience for that kind of thing.