Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Andrew Garfield, and Henry Cavill - I'm also drawing a complete blank when hearing these names.
I know Chris Evans mostly from the fantastic
Cellular and from this somewhat-less-fantastic but still pretty watchable romcom in which he starred with Anna Faris. I know Andrew Garfield mostly from
The Social Network.
I think superhero movies and with them the actors are a 'victim' of their own success. The oversaturation mentioned in the article.
Agreed. Over the years, I have enjoyed ones that stood out from the crowd somehow. The early ones like
Superman stood out because they were pioneering,
Spider Man featured some amazing FX, Tim Burton's
Batman and then later Christopher Nolan's
Dark Knights (at least the first two) took tone and artistry in new directions,
Ironman had Robert Downey Jr., and so on.
But whenever I go to a superhero movie nowadays, even one that's critically acclaimed, I find myself falling asleep. Sustained action sequences bridged with little dialogue or character development just shut off my brain. I slept through the so much of the third
Dark Knight I can't even honestly claim to have seen it.
Superhero/comic book movies have become a boring, immature, oversaturated genre that annoys me because their ubiquity implies that, to Hollywood moguls, the tastes of 15-year-old boys trump every other demo's.