Thats Embarrassing

[Drich]

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He does make a few good points, I have my own thread on stuff like that (let me know if you want a link) But historically, our movies tend to get dark when our ecomnoy goes south. Just look at the differences between Spiderman (pre 9-11) and the Amazing spiderman. the 2000 spiderman was almost cartoonish, while A/S is a much darker take on the same character. (you do know what is going to happen to Gwynn right?) The Dark knight is another example (pre realistate bubble burst,) The good guy has his twists and turns but you know he will take out the bad guys with little to no real trouble. This last movie kept getting worse and worse. They let it leak that Batman is going to die and you are waiting for it, or you are waiting for some sort of rally in all of the doom and gloom, but what happens instead is that it keeps getting worse and worse for the people of Gotham. till the end, and it is only by the skin of their teeth. that they make it out ata great cost. And These are our Hero movies. The ones where we are supposed to know the outcome, and are reassured that everything is going to be ok in the end. Our movies get darker when our lives get harder because we like to see misery abound. We feel better when we know we are not the only ones suffering, or better yet when someone is suffering more than we are. (Hence vampires and Zombies)

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I wonder what happened in 1992?....

The Death of Superman

I remeber that as i was an Avid collector then. DC felt that the sumerman franchise was no longer profitable, and decided to take it in a new direction. (that we were too hip for the 1940's values that superman repersented.)

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Hey Drich - you ever read HP Lovecraft? That was from the 20-30's and they were darker than anything we show on TV now.

The past wasn't all happy-doodles.

Ever heard of the "Great depression" it kinda coinsided with that very same time period. This generation is not the only one to know hardship.