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Their success might be the main reason I no longer go to the movies. I like sci-fi action movies like Starship Troopers, Terminator, Alita: Battle Angel, Total Recall, Avatar, The Matrix and such.

But these days no one seems to care for such products. What makes the big bucks seems to be super heroes made by disney. Would have been fine had they not have completely taken over the market now.

Yes, I'm an old fart and movies/TV is targeting the young population. Totally normal. But am I just old and bitter, or is this superhero trend just marketing? I think it's mainly the latter.

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As another somewhat old fart, it feels like we don’t see any novel breakout titles take top spot at the box office anymore - titles that come out of nowhere; in addition to the movies you mentioned, Forest Gump, The Godfather, Goodfellas, … etc. It’s all superhero stuff. That’s all people are willing to talk about. It practically dominated the conversation.

Joker? Thought that movie was great, the acting by Phoenix was amazing and it is based in a superhero universe.

I also am not a big fan of marvel formulaic movies.

I miss the “surprise” when the answer to the question, “What’s No.1 at the theatres?” wasn’t “<insert comic book>“.

It also really doesn’t help that the subject matter of American comics is so narrow - at the end of the day it’s superhero vs supervillain.

The last SF or fantasy movie I've liked was, I believe, Interstellar. Everything since has either been a superhero movie, Star Wars (please make it stop), or a massive flop. Actually, Bumblebee was pretty entertaining now that I remember.

The TV has kinda become the new medium for SF/fantasy, but it too has started to become flooded with superhero shows, superhero deconstruction and more Star Wars.

You didn't like The Martian and Blade Runner 2049? Not exactly mid-budget movies but one is a well-made popcorn-flick while the other is the highly improbably well-made sequel to a 40 year old cult classic. The amount of non-superhero Sci-Fi in the theaters at the moment is a bit of the low side for me but there has been significant, good movies since 2014 and Interstellar.

I completely forgot about Blade Runner, but I loved it.

yea interstellar would be my top movie pick if i was stuck on a desert island that also had a working dvd player

what about under the skin? edge of tomorrow? ex machina? arrival? bladerunner 2049? tenet?

but maybe you mean that they were flops, ie not huge box office hits, or that you didn't enjoy them

I didn't like Tenet at all.

Under the skin and edge of tomorrow were pre-Interstellar.

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