MOVIE TALK
Study: Superheroes Might Not Be Such Super Role Models

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-study-superheroes-might-not-be-such-super-role-models.html

http://www.hollywoodwiretap.com/?module=news&action=story&id=51077

Yeesh. Lighten up. It's just freaking comics.

They write characters like that because they sell more product than Archie comics type characters do.

Shades of Wertham and the comics code.

This is 30 years behind the times. Comics superheroes aren't even relevant in children's and teens' media culture anymore. If they have any role models from media, it would be rockers, rappers, sports icons, and video game characters. All of whom are "edgier" than comics characters. Only the 30's-40's y/o nerds still act like superhero comics are relevant.

mlai
This is 30 years behind the times. Comics superheroes aren't even relevant in children's and teens' media culture anymore. If they have any role models from media, it would be rockers, rappers, sports icons, and video game characters. All of whom are "edgier" than comics characters. Only the 30's-40's y/o nerds still act like superhero comics are relevant.

To be fair, Lamb doesn't say comics are relevant, her point is about super heroes as portrayed in movies.

That's about all I can say in her defence, though. Everything else is just the typical ill-informed and poorly reasoned "let's try to be get some attention by blaming the latest fad for all of society's ills" type of argument. Yawn.

It's just another evil thing to place with rock and roll music, videogames and comic books in general...

This change of behavior in super heroe movies is also happening to many other things. Tv programms are more explicit than they used to, same to many kinds of movies. I don't know why this particular kind of movie would more of a threat than others. Personnally, it's one of the only genre of movies that I prefer now.

DAJB

mlai
This is 30 years behind the times. Comics superheroes aren't even relevant in children's and teens' media culture anymore. If they have any role models from media, it would be rockers, rappers, sports icons, and video game characters. All of whom are "edgier" than comics characters. Only the 30's-40's y/o nerds still act like superhero comics are relevant.

To be fair, Lamb doesn't say comics are relevant, her point is about super heroes as portrayed in movies.

That's about all I can say in her defence, though. Everything else is just the typical ill-informed and poorly reasoned "let's try to be get some attention by blaming the latest fad for all of society's ills" type of argument. Yawn.

You both have a point.
The stupid thing is that those movie comic characters are like that because they're supposed to appeal to the same 30's-40's -ish people who used to like reading about them in comics.
And they do.

They're not for "boys". Those little boys they're so worried about have their own little heroes in their own little TV cartoons who are just as safe as they've always been, and 20 years from now they'll have their own movie adaptions to get excited about. -Even their own cartoon versions of the "adult" comic heroes are safer and more boring.
Apart from that it's amazingly and thoughtlessly sexist- Little girls have just the same types of heroes and they like boy heroes too... and boys like girl heroes, but it's not ok for them to say so. ^_^

Lamb is a moron who has just embarrassed herself in front of the entire world. Good going Lamb! :)

While comic books featuring superheroes may only appeal to the older people who grew up with them at this point, superhero stories are still very prevalent in TV aimed at younger audiences. Warner and Disney's biggest money makers in children's cartoons center around their DC and Marvel licenses.

isukun
While comic books featuring superheroes may only appeal to the older people who grew up with them at this point, superhero stories are still very prevalent in TV aimed at younger audiences. Warner and Disney's biggest money makers in children's cartoons center around their DC and Marvel licenses.

Of course they are, which is what I've said- or at least that's what I intended to say...
Kids still have superheros in the TV programsaimed at them, and they're still the same safe boring versions that kids superheros have always been, even the current kids versions of Spiderman, batman and whoever else.

The point is that what Lamb says has no application to the real world as it is, only to her misconstrued fantasy version of it where all movies with superhero characters are actually aimed at little boys (and no one else) and those same little boys want and need those adult superheroes as their own personal role models. And what's more, those little boys will now grow up to be twisted men with no morals what so ever and will kill people, drink and sleep with prostitutes constantly while taking exotic drugs non-stop.

Just like I do now... Curse you movie heroes for making me turn out as I am! :(

Who better to have as a role model than someone who is immune to bullets? I think that's a pretty god thing to aspire to be.

BffSatan
Who better to have as a role model than someone who is immune to bullets? I think that's a pretty god thing to aspire to be.

Except the whole problem is that she DOES think kids should aspire to be like superheroes...
Which is why Sharon Lamb is complaining about the movie versions of the characters.

So gone are the days when teens all over the world are allegedly waiting to be granted magical powers and therefore transported to a school of magic to further their abilities? I demand the return of witchcraft as a possible aspiration to the new generation of youth all over the world!