LogFAQs > #910351602

Everything listed is Superman except for a TV show adaptation. And a Captain America movie that was widely lambasted. We already had widely-popularized dark films. Academy Award winner Platoon from the year before, for example. There was a commercial passion for these more brooding films at this time. Not to mention comics themselves were selling at a peak with Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns, Alan Moore's Watchmen, Crisis on Infinite Earths, and even at Marvel you had Daredevil's Born Again, and X-Men's God Loves, Man Kills. TV was also trending in a darker direction with the very popular Homicide: Life on the Streets, Hill Street Blues, and other shows.

I don't think you can say the appetite for this type of film wouldn't exist. In fact, I think you're doing a disservice to people to think that they wouldn't like this kind of movie. Tonally, I think one of the big reasons this movie was so lambasted was because it took a serious subject and tried to make it family-friendly. It was terrible for a lot of reasons, but if you're going to play with the most serious subject of the era, you gotta do it with some weight.

And let's be honest, the only morally complex part of the movie is the very end.
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