Posted on 11/05/2017 2:15:18 PM PST by Simon Green
Blame me I probably saw all of them
The first so-called SUPERHERO movie I can recall was the horrid ARGOMAN from the 1960s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argoman_the_Fantastic_Superman
Back in the olden days a “superhero” movie would be given the B budget, black and white, chintzy special effects and be played on the bottom half of a drive-in theater double feature of Hercules and the Women from Mars or some such thing.
Now they are given class A budgets, glorious color, over the top special effects, and are still not worth going to see.
Our youth today truly live in an age of fantasy.
Sure!
1980:
1 The Empire Strikes Back
2 9 to 5
3 Stir Crazy
4 Airplane!
5 Any Which Way You Can
6 Private Benjamin
7 Coal Miner's Daughter
8 Smokey and the Bandit II
9 The Blue Lagoon Col.
10 The Blues Brothers
11 Ordinary People
12 Popeye
13 Urban Cowboy
14 The Shining
15 Seems Like Old Times
16 Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
17 Caddyshack
18 Friday the 13th (1980)
19 Brubaker
20 Little Darlings
2016:
1 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2 Finding Dory
3 Captain America: Civil War
4 The Secret Life of Pets
5 The Jungle Book (2016)
6 Deadpool
7 Zootopia
8 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
9 Suicide Squad
10 Sing
11 Moana
12 Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
13 Doctor Strange
14 Hidden Figures
15 Jason Bourne
16 Star Trek Beyond
17 X-Men: Apocalypse
18 Trolls
19 La La Land
20 Kung Fu Panda 3
Bit of a contrast. What I find striking is a that half the top 20 films of 1980 are comedies, a genre that no longer exists as a top 20 film today.
My html skills aren't that good.
I'll be real specific and say "many". IMHO, of course.
Nope. Suffice it to say that Disney regards the billions they paid for Star Wars as money well spent.
Given the toilet-based, borderline satanic humor of comedians like Sarah Silverman, small wonder comedies aren’t appearing in the top 20...
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