Some thoughts on contemporary films

Though that was a major trend in the late sixties through the mid-seventies, too. The chief difference being that the antiheroes then were often complex human beings with human flaws, not  CGI cartoons decked out in spandex and bemoaning the woes of being a 'societal outcast' because of their superpowers.

I'd be all for returning to the former state of things, cinema-wise. Today's supehero crop of films sort of reminds me of sulky adolescents who sit in their rooms and pout over the fact that the world doesn't appreciate or understand them. No big deal if a film like that is made every so often, but I have serious reservations about the tsunami-like swamping of virtually everything else by the genre.