I grew up watching the super hero movies of the 70s, 80s, and 90s with my uncles...

I grew up watching the super hero movies of the 70s, 80s, and 90s with my uncles. They however seem to be very dismissive of many of the newer ones however, general attitude seems to be that they are just generic kid movie stuff

Truth to this?

>70s, 80s, 90s
>Superman 3 and 4
>Supergirl
>Schumaker Batman
>Steel
>Lou Ferigno Hulk
>the old Captain America movies
>Power Rangers
Your uncles are retarded.

THAT was the generic kid movie stuff. Now it's all dark and edgy shit.
One big difference is that the soundtracks suck cocks now. They're just mood vibes and underscores with no themes.

I'd ask if either of you are over 25, but you'd lie anyway

Superman, Superman 2, Swamp Thing, Batman, TMNT, Batman Returns, Guyver Dark Hero, Blade

That’s all the good ones.

>They're just mood vibes and underscores with no themes.
I thought I was the only person who hated that. None of the soundtracks are something you might put on just to enjoy. Maybe to inspire you to do a workout or to manage that 780 degree no-scope shot.
But not really to enjoy for its own merits.
In fact a lot of them seem to be in the same style of DEEP THRUMMING INSTRUMENT that was used in Inception to emphasize cool moments

Oldfag here, I'm 31.

Capeshit is better now than it ever was. As a kid, I dreamed of Spider-man, X-men, Avengers, non-Batman DC movies. Superman 1 was the only good lighthearted comic book movie and everything from the 90s was a pathetic attempt at redoing Burton's Batman with literally who characters. See: Dick Tracey, The Shadow, Dark Man, etc. Your greatest hope of seeing something live action was Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and hoping he'd actually use his powers to fight a villain which next to never happened.

You faggots have no idea how good you have it right now, yet all I see is bitching.

Truth. Just don't expect the 15 year old contrarians of this board to agree.

Guess what's hard to edit? Good themes that follow a story's arc.
Guess what's easy to edit? Boring drones and mood music that can go pretty much anywhere.

I'd say you should blame Hans for the trend with his braams, but he only writes what the directors want, and directors want to be their own editors, too. So there you have it.

The truth is that old school capes films were either kid friendly adventures or forcing edgy bullshit.
Just like today.
The only real difference is the amount of money studios are prepared to spend on them.

People like OP didn't realize Marvel Movies was a fucking punchline back in the 90's!

Howard the Duck: bombed
Punisher and Captain America: Direct-to-Video
Fantastic Four: shelved
Spider-Man: In development hell for the 90's even if James Cameron was talking about wanting to do it
I'm not even sure we should count the TV movies. Hulk was successful as a TV show but the movies had mild reception.

Blade was technically the first good Marvel movie, unless you count Men in Black as an unintentional Marvel movie (Marvel bought out Malibu which happened to own Men in Black IIRC).

The first X-Men looks antiquated now but when you compare it to most of Marvel's prior films it looked like a fucking miracle that it wasn't as horrible as the most of the previous stuff.

Yeah, I'm so glad we get to see Superman and friends level entire cities to fight a big bad. More epic plots and blue sky lasers, please! More disaster porn! More internal strife and deep-seated emotional turmoil, please! I want to see Thor punch Iron Man some more!

There's nothing super about a superhero who can't protect anything, let alone a witless superhero who gets physical at the drop of a hat like a preteen dogged by a notorious playground bully. Maybe you like that kind of bullshit because you relate to it, but I don't.

I'd ask if you have a point to make, but you'd lie anyway.

You see, as cheesey as the Donner Superman was, Superman was still very much a hero. Burtons Batman offered enough cynicism and adult appeal while never going full grimdark like TDKT, and then you had your more cultish things like TMNT and The Crow which kind of tackled their own particular niches very well be it total absurdity or gothic melodrama.

These days, you just have a bunch of overly polished stuff that all feels the same, with the punk who played Johnny Storm trying to be a convincing Captain America, and a Tony Stark who speaks like a valley girl. It's just not the same.

X-Men was fine, but I mean I wouldn't call it recent, it's classic in it's own right by now, people have been born who are now legal adults when the first movie came out, it doesn't really count.

>More internal strife and deep-seated emotional turmoil, please! I want to see Thor punch Iron Man some more!
So basically you've never read a comic in your life.

>trying to be a convincing Captain America, and a Tony Stark who speaks like a valley girl
jesus christ you really don't know anything do you?

That was a non comment.

Fine, I'll spell it out for you.

Chris Evans is no longer the guy from F4 and Perfect Score. He's a fucking great Cap.

Tony talks nothing like a Valley Girl. You clearly don't know what a valley girl is.

Valley girls like, end everything with an upward inflection? As if it were a question? Kind of like Tony Stark, yeah?

Honestly, when you said that I immediately remembered that bit in AoU where he opens a secret passage and goes "Yaaaaay."

>Kind of like Tony Stark, yeah?
except not at all

Quantity =/= quality.
I'd rather be getting a good superhero movie every couple of years than being forced fed mediocre or bad ones every month. I hate that something that once had endless creative potential has been reduced to a series of boring factory-made products for manchildren that cut down almost any potential for greatness.
If you had told me 15 years ago that one day I would get to witness audiences not caring about Superman's death on a major movie picture, or that the most talked about part of the upcoming adaptation of The Infinity Gauntlet saga would be how fucking bad Thanos looks, I would have laughed in your face and called it a day.

>M-MUH CONTRARIANS

>I'd rather be getting a good superhero movie every couple of years
Except that's literally never happened in the history of ever.

>Dick Tracy and The Shadow
>literally whos
>he doesn't like Darkman
Opinion instantly discarded

Those every couple of years were dogshit.

Superman 3, Batman Forever (yeah I got nostalgia for this too but its still a bad movie), Steel, Spawn, these movies are horrible. Even the first Superman and Burton's Batman movies have glaring problems.

Not to mention, last year we got Logan, easily one of the best comic book movies ever. And I hate to break this to you, but 230 million views in one day didn't happen to laugh at Thanos. If thats what you honestly think, maybe you should look outside what Sup Forums shitposts. While I agree the DCEU has been trash and Snyder shit the bed pretty hard, to say you're being force fed bad movies is ridiculous entitlement.

>Batman
>TMNT
>The Crow
>Blade
>Blade 2
>X-Men

Eh....I mean it did, but of course you're just being a mousefag so you'll say all these movies suck

You could even extend it to the very start of the MCU, but post Avengers it is pure over saturation of the market with mediocre movies people will defend because they either don't know any better and legit grew up with this being the status quo, or are just nerds afraid to accept that what they once loved has died and become nothing but a set of chicken mcnuggets, different shapes, but simultaneously always the same shapes, just made to trick the brain of idiots who can't tell

>Batman through X-Men
Sure, that was a solid run, no doubt. But there was also a ton of shit mixed in there. Literally no different than what we've got going on today.

Oh certainly, lots of shit films, but not as many as there are now in as quick of time.

In general the modern movies are better and truer to the characters, however due to a variety of circumstances, I don't think any of them achieve iconic status the same way the older stuff did.

You can say Burton didn't do Batman right, but Anton Furst's Gotham is STILL the Gotham everyone knows. Christopher Reeve's superman is still iconic. Even silly things like Bill Bixby's catchphrase from Lou ferrigno's Hulk is iconic even though a lot of people haven't seen it by now.Plus with the saturation, it feels far less like an event when these things come out now.