>The "comic book movie" genre isn't inhernetly better or worse
>than any other genre of film. It's all how the
>studio/director/actors/marketting department treats any film.

Men-in-tights stories are nowhere near the level of documentaries or serious fiction about exploring social phenomenon and personal experience.

Now, I realize one can go see a film for reasons besides those, but generally when looking at the accepted "canon" of film and judging what people, throughout history, hold up as the best "art" available, meaningfully exploring society and personal experience are generally a central component of all these things.

So, I mean ... I like comics and all, but yeah, I feel they're often held to a lower standard by their adherents.