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Do Superhero films have their own genre?

  • 03-09-2012 12:19am
    #1
    KenSwee
    Registered Users Posts: 520 ✭✭✭


    I was chatting to my friends tonight about the recent Avengers film and we went on to discuss how superhero films are categorised nowadays.

    I'm not huge fan generally but I believe that they have replaced the western as one of the main draws in Hollywood and they really are a genre onto themselves given the sheer volume of films that have been produced since the 1980s.

    Some of my friends think they are in the action adventure or Sci-Fi genre.


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  • #2
    e_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    That's a bit like asking "What's the number for 911?"


  • #3
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,405 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    KenSwee wrote: »

    Some of my friends think they are in the action adventure or Sci-Fi genre.

    They are in the same way that some westerns are adventures/comedies/dramas/revenge movies/war films even sci-fi in some cases.


  • #4
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Yes? I wouldnt call The Dark Knight a crime drama and Amazing Spiderman a teen angst film, even though they have those elements, so yeah, superhero films are their own genre.


  • #5
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,269 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    They are on my media drive anyway...


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