>>100688841>The argument of "same formula, different shlock" is a denial of the use of different subgenres. It was used twice. The entire post is denying what I said without any real substanceAnd no where in that post did the word "subgenre" even come up, so even if either of us implies that's what was being argued from it, we'd be wrong. Your implication of "No, they're all different, see! This one takes place in HIGH SCHOOL!" even though they all have the exact same identical structure, writing style, and tone.
They're essentially the equivalent of the Disney Renaissance era, where they all feature the exact same structure, writing and tone as all of the others.
>Hey, dumbass, I didn't once deny that they all fit into the category of "superhero movie*facepalm* Wow. That's like using the term "adventure" or "Independent film" to describe any number of films from, ignoring the fact that they all fall explicitly into separate genres, NOT sub genres. For instance, Blade and Captain America are completely different genre's. One is a war film, the other is a horror. It's pretty obvious which one is which, disregarding the relatively useless term "superhero film".
I think this entire argument is coming from a place of lack of understanding of what a genre, meta genre, and sub genre are.
Space Opera falls under the subgenre of Sci Fi, Thriller is about equivalent to Superhero film, Teen Drama is a subgenre of Drama. Calling Blade a Superhero movie first and a HORROR movie as its sub genre is a miss-classification. If you want to get into the nitty gritty of classification, you can have a film share genre's, even share sub-genre's.
But saying they are all unique under the umbrella term of "superhero movie" is blatant intellectual dishonesty since that term does not describe every superhero film, nor does it deny films previously of their original actual genre's to which they were a part of, IE, Blade being a Horror, the subgenre being a supernatural horror.