Such genre cross-pollination might make both films more appealing to Academy voters who otherwise wouldn't look twice
as superhero fare.
Not exact matches
All pretty standard
fare... but get a load of that soundtrack, which strikes me
as what should be playing in the background when the
superhero saves the helpless maiden from the oncoming train just in the nick of time.
Black Panther may not be the first
superhero film to place a black lead front and centre — Wesley Snipes made two great Blade movies plus another one, and the»90s delivered a handful of now - forgotten
fare with black men behind the mask (Spawn, Steel, Blankman, The Meteor Man)-- but it is the first to surround its hero with an equally diverse cast, and announce itself
as the new blockbuster status - quo, not a one - off alternative for a widely underrepresented audience.
Warner Bros. needs to consider some important factors going forward: Snyder and Goyer need to be reigned in,
as their sensibilities are too shallow, even for
superhero fare.
As IndieWire observes, he's traditionally shied away from big
superhero fare.
Trank made a stir with «Chronicle,» his low - budget
superhero deconstruction, and matching indie talent with big studio
fare,
as «The Dark Knight» trilogy did with Christopher Nolan, historically reaps dividends.
What begins
as straightforward
superhero / sci - fi action
fare, with Cable describing a dystopian, Terminator - like origin, is quickly derailed by Ryan Reynold's Merc with a Mouth, who dispels any notions of seriousness.