Eyebrow Cinema's video: No Superhero Movies are NOT Like Westerns

Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: https://mubi.com/eyebrowcinema Support me on Patreon! Benefits include early access, exclusive vlogs, and more: https://www.patreon.com/eyebrowcinema No god damn it, superhero movies are not like Westerns, and we're gonna talk about why. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/danpgsimpson Filmography: https://letterboxd.com/pgcooper/list/no-superhero-movies-are-not-like-westerns/ Music Featured: Love Him by Loyalty Freak Music Setup with an E by Small Colin Both Flanks by Small Colin Facing It by Komiku Carnival by Smallertide Sednoseteres by Hinterheim End of the Trip by Komiku The Zone by Komiku Works Cited: "Box Office Blues" by Farran Smith Nehme. https://selfstyledsiren.substack.com/p/box-office-blues "Why Superhero Movies Aren’t Like Westerns (and Probably Won’t be the Next Great Chapter in Genre…" by John Heath. https://filmschoolrejects.com/why-superhero-movies-arent-like-westerns-and-probably-won-t-be-the-next-great-chapter-in-genre-2b4e6a9953ec/ "Westerns, Part 2" by Ciara Maloney. https://thesundae.net/2020/09/15/westerns-part-2/ "Why Steven Spielberg is Right About Superhero Movies Being the New Western by" by David Crow. https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/why-steven-spielberg-is-right-about-superhero-movies-being-the-new-western/ "Predicting the Future of Superhero Movies Is Harder Than You Think" by Brandon Katz. https://observer.com/2021/06/future-of-superhero-movies/ "Why Superhero Movies Won't Go the Way of the Western" by Chase Magnett. https://comicbook.com/movies/news/why-superhero-movies-won-t-go-the-way-of-the-western/ "Superhero Movies are the new Westerns and Marvel is the new John Wayne" by Young Nat Turner. https://medium.com/@JDV_926/superhero-movies-are-the-new-westerns-and-marvel-is-the-new-john-wayne-ff9ddfa4a62a "Are superhero movies really set to go the way of the western?" by Ben Child. https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/sep/04/are-superhero-movies-really-set-to-go-the-way-of-the-western "Eternals Director Chloé Zhao On Superhero Movies As The New Westerns, Examining Humanity Through Marvel [Interview]" by Hoai-Tran Bui. https://www.slashfilm.com/648990/eternals-director-chloe-zhao-on-superhero-movies-as-the-new-westerns-examining-humanity-through-marvel-interview/ "Steven Spielberg Predicts Superhero Movies Will Die Off Like Westerns" by Matt Patches. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/news/a37602/steven-spielberg-superhero-movies-westerns/ "Moon Knight's Ethan Hawke Compares the MCU to '50s Westerns" by Math Erao. https://www.cbr.com/moon-knight-ethan-hawke-compares-mcu-westerns/ More Eyebrow Cinema: The Fly - The First Horror Movie I Loved - https://youtu.be/u3tyznXp7-o Being John Malkovich and the Office Movies of 1999 - https://youtu.be/sI3Obe0tiDU The Plot Holes of Vertigo (and why they don't matter) - https://youtu.be/xP9EDhntal4 The Decay of Cinema - https://youtu.be/hjDNtwh2i5M Chris Benoit and Separating the Art from the Artist - https://youtu.be/dGavvwRyomE Sleepless in Seattle - Crying at Action Movies - https://youtu.be/UZLyIdVeLaM Star Wars Can't Move On - https://youtu.be/ESWgz-lcUuE Contextualizing Insomnia - Nolan's Secret Gem - https://youtu.be/IUef5zrtRQ4 Movie Theaters and the Value of Inconvenience - https://youtu.be/uZdl9D7NWBI Action and Pacifism in Castle in the Sky - https://youtu.be/fuIhAH8mnSM How Terence Young Made James Bond - https://youtu.be/2sTt_nkgGFE Hierarchies of Violence in The Shining - https://youtu.be/tMw2YWOBeoM The Curious Case of Forrest and Benjamin - https://youtu.be/gWAg1suGwnM Never Say Never Again is a Waste - https://youtu.be/GsdMCujvmMA Harry Potter - 10 Years Later - https://youtu.be/H0VjWs6aivw Stanley Kubrick's Favourite Actors - https://youtu.be/Uon8unTCEX4 Long Movies are Good, Actually - https://youtu.be/YGhsxpsXgF0 On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The End of James Bond - https://youtu.be/Ko492zTs9xs Dune, Star Wars and Building Sci-Fi Worlds - https://youtu.be/d_W823JT5Bs Dark Souls Difficulty and the Easy Mode Debate - https://youtu.be/z_lRIP8AkXM