Avengers

After last summer's heavy offering of superhero movies (First Class, Thor, Captain America, and Green Lantern) I wrote an article discussing the potential of the genre. I noted that no film had been able to do straight-up superhero as well as 2008's Iron Man, and suggested that perhaps filmmakers needed to take superheroes in different directions, à la The Dark Knight.

Quite frankly, we've become over-saturated by the superhero genre. These are movies which, as a rule, stick to a formula that they know works so as not to jeopardize box office revenues.