Michael Breakfield of Lone Star Comics in Arlington, Texas comments on the disturbing trend of using certain phrases to describe superhero movies.
I'm a little concerned by some of the phrases trying to be coined in your movie analysis. Can we please delete the phrases "spandex saga" or "spandex epic" from our vocabulary. Ignoring the fact that these are very condescending at worse and backhanded at best, haven't we moved beyond this sort of description? It's a little annoying that every time a new superhero movie comes out (and these days that's quite often) that in reviews, no matter how good the film may be, it is reduced with descriptions like "spandex saga."
A lot of people that normally wouldn't are finally taking a medium that so many hold close and dear to their hearts seriously (as seen by box office numbers). There is absolutely nothing "spandex" about Iron Man, Thor, The Dark Night or Captain America. Comments like these are just left over prejudice from an era before Hollywood, and the audiences, started to actually take these films serious. Can we expect no less from the critics?
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'Left Over Prejudice'
Posted by ICv2 on July 28, 2011 @ 4:17 am CT
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