{"id":158028,"date":"2020-08-26T15:47:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/26\/superhero-movies-have-never-seemed-more-obscene-bidisha\/"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:47:33","slug":"superhero-movies-have-never-seemed-more-obscene-bidisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=158028","title":{"rendered":"Superhero movies have never seemed more obscene | Bidisha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They might save cinema, but the public doesn\u2019t need vengeance and Spandex right now \u2013 we need voting and vaccines. Batman and Wonder Woman just don\u2019t cut it In tough times, you need a hero. But do you need a superhero? DC Comics\u2019 recent virtual showcase, FanDome, unveiled the trailers for Patty Jenkins\u2019s forthcoming Wonder Woman 1984 and Matt Reeves\u2019s The Batman, which is expected next year. Also featuring was Zack Snyder\u2019s four-hour director\u2019s cut of Justice League, which will air on HBO Max in hour-long instalments.I\u2019m exhausted just typing that. Surely superheroes and their huge, vaulting, save-the-universe narratives look laughably unimportant at this time? I mean, I love Spandex and cosmic plot-fuelling MacGuffins as much as anyone. But this slew of multimillion-dollar super-releases seems obscene. It emphasises the gap between the Hollywood hype machine and the real struggles of pretty much everyone on this pandemic-stricken planet \u2013 except a few very rich individuals. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/aug\/26\/superhero-movies-have-never-seemed-more-obscene\" target=\"_blank\">Superhero movies have never seemed more obscene | Bidisha<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They might save cinema, but the public doesn\u2019t need vengeance and Spandex right now \u2013 we need voting and vaccines. Batman and Wonder Woman just don\u2019t cut it In tough times, you need a hero. But do you need a superhero? DC Comics\u2019 recent virtual showcase, FanDome, unveiled the trailers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}