It's not bad nostalgia; I'm a Star Wars baby, I grew up loving Star Wars, E.T., Indiana Jones, and superheroes. I was obsessed with them like any other kid. The argument that there aren't too many superhero films being released compared to other genres is interesting. Below, a user commented saying that no one ever complains about comedies saturating the market, so why complain about superheroes? Because while comedies can have pretty formulaic plots, there is way more room in that genre, or any other genre, if we're calling superhero films a genre here, that allows for better, more interesting characters, better plots, better dialogue, and better/less blunt themes. A good movie, hell, a good story, connects to you on an emotional level and it says something about the human condition. It doesn't have to say something about the human condition in an in-your-face way either. Look at any great movie, even great kids' films. The Lion King, A Bug's Life, The Iron Giant. They're all children's films but they all have a great ability to grab you emotionally, invest you in the characters, and give you a little philosophical food to chew on.

Now, superhero films do this too, and some are great at it...but they keep doing it. Over and over and over again. The same themes. The same, recycled characters and origin stories. The same action sequences. The same shared philosophical undertones. The same emotions. Superhero films are great entertainment, but as they are now, I'd say you could hand-pick a few to show someone who'd never seen them before, and confidently tell them that once they've seen that handful, they've seen all of them. I guess what I'm saying is, superhero movies are far too similar to be enjoyed over and over again for the next how ever many years DC and Marvel have planned, but they make great popcorn movies. They're more decent than other popcorn films like Roland Emmerich's offspring.

I'd be interested to see what blockbusters would be coming out today if superhero films never caught on. Would we see more originality? Would we have a year of unique, original, timeless movies that also have the ability to earn dazzling amounts of cash for Hollywood?