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Agreed.
I believe, the same thing happened throughout human history with stories like King Arthur, etc...
The only difference is that modern communication and creation tech plus Earth's high population allows us to have a retelling of a story every few years rather than every few generations. Whether that's good or bad is up to each person.
This is incredibly true! And I'd never even really considered the "higher population" and "greater technology" making the retelling occur morre often.... Though, I suppose there is also a discussion that stories are better preserved these days? And don't get effected by oral retellings so much? But even so. I think it's a really interresting topic.
We could even get into Jungian psychology and discss the concept of the innate "collective unconscious" including what the defined "archetypes."
Or looking at Religious text, and the obvious overlaps and paralels between them all.
I like this discussion! So I'm following back to the origin...
Well eventually new generation will watch the new ones and it will be their 1st and probably will be their definitive version.
Wow... @Underlord comes out with some intelligent reasoning... What world is this?
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It's just bad storytelling! 99% of mainstream movies have all been done before. If it's not a remake, it's "inspired by" or just the same storyline with new characters.
Marvel figured out how to make a billion dollars per movie and said, "Alright now let's do that 15 more times"
So, I disagree with this rather heavily.
If you look at Marvels most successful films, it's because they did the inverse - went against the grain that they themselves set.
Most notable example: Captain America: Winter Soldier - a Spy Thriller set in a Super Hero World
The most formulaic of the Marvel films are the ones that perform the worst.
And then, we have their TV Shows, where they really tried to mix genres.
So... I think Marvel gets a bad rap.
DC, on the other hand, they very much saw Marvels "formula" and treated it as something they barely need to itterate on. They thought "Lets do that, but make it dark and edgy" and I think that's ultimately one of the reasons they fail SO hard. Because they don't stray out of the "Super Hero" Genre...
A better, more succint way of putting it, is that you can either treat "Super Hero" as a Genre, or you can treat it as an Aesthetic and make a Genre Movie within that Aesthetic. DC make "Super Hero" Genre Films. Marvel, when they're doing it properly, use the Super Hero world and aesthetic, to tell a different Genre of story.
Yes. I'm a proud Marvel fanboy and I'm not ashamed of it!