Chris Evans has high hopes for the superhero genre

To put it bluntly, Chris Evans doesn’t believe that the superhero genre will fade away – he puts all his trust in the most recent advances of technology: “I certainly think that given the fact that technology has finally advanced, they’re always going to be looking for other films to match their technological accomplishments. Any film that can incorporate these larger-than-life characters and fantastical locations and plots, the technology wants to prove they can do it so whether it’s superhero film or fantasy in general, that’s going to surge for a while.” (via Comic Book)

So, in a way, the actor says that as long as there is a means the end will be justified. But is it so? I don’t buy this for one bit. This isn’t about what the technology (and the guys using it, such as the directors) and what it can do at this moment – this is about what the audiences want to see. There is no point in doing a flick filled with top-notch FX if nobody will see it.

The counterexample would be James Cameron’s Avatar, who is still the highest grossing movie of all time, a flick which is, basically, one giant green screen. Now that was indeed a jump forward of the technology. But these jumps are rare enough, though. And if they don’t happen, then a movie using FX may lose fans – after all, how many explosions can I endure?

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