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Have you noticed how many super hero movies there have been recently? In the last 10 years, there have been more than all previous movie history combined. This link seems to prove my point. Check the list, going as far back as 1941, to 1998, there's only 18. Now look at the rest of the list, from 2000 on up- 35 of them. Now, some of those I don't really consider "super hero movies", like The Incredibles or Super Hero Movie, which just mocks all real super hero movies, but still. I'm talking movies based on a comic book character. And look at the list of upcoming movies, including multiple sequels (spiderman 4 and 5, Ghost Rider 2, multiple X-Men, etc), in just the next couple of years!

Who do I think is the cause of the glut of super hero movies? ....ME!

Well, not me really, but my generation. The 18-35 demographic, which is traditionally the one that spends the most discretionary income on useless things, like movies. We grew up with these comic books in the 90's which was a good time for comics, and people are paying attention to us now. WE DEMAND MORE SUPER HERO MOVIES!!!!

Anyway, I think it's pretty cool that we get to see all these movies about super heroes that I grew up reading comics of, but I really just wanted to post this to see how many super hero references I could combine in the title of the post.

On a related topic, there also seem to be a good number of movies based on video games now. Years ago, there was the live action mario brothers movie, which sucked ass, and a few other ones, going as far back as Tron. But again, in the last few years, there have been a bunch more. Just this week, Prince of Persia came out, one of my old favorite games that I played in middle school. In addition to the list of movies based on actual games, there have been movies which had video games as a main subject, such as Grandma's Boy, The King of Kong, and Gamer, in the last few years.

Hooray for video games! That is all.