Steven Spielberg and the superhero genre fatigue

Most recently, Steven Spielberg, during an interview with Associated Press, has talked about the superhero genre.

Backtracking, a couple of years ago, the director said that the blockbuster movies will change the way the industry works at this moment. In a way, he said that at one point or another these types of movies will become less and less bankable for the studios.

So, in his newest interview, the director reiterated what he previously said, further adding that the superhero genre will burn out in the following years (no, he didn't specify a precise date). As an example, he mentioned the western genre: "We were around when the Western died, and there will be a time when the superhero movie goes the way of the Western. It doesn't mean there won't be another occasion where the Western comes back and the superhero movie someday returns. Of course, right now the superhero movie is alive and thriving. I'm only saying that these cycles have a finite time in popular culture. There will come a day when the mythological stories are supplanted by some other genre that possibly some young filmmaker is just thinking about discovering for all of us."

So what can we make of this? Is he right about this? Check out the next page for some thought about the superhero movies overload!