Movies fit into a few select genres. There’s the action flick, and the chick flick. There’s drama and comedy. There’s kids movies and horror movies. Almost every movie fits into one of those categories. In the late 90’s and early 2000’s a new genre emerged…The Super Hero Movie.

There have been super hero movies for years, but it wasn’t until the end of the 90’s where we had multiple super hero movies coming out each year. Like with every genre there are great super hero movies and awful ones. For every Bryan Singer X-Men 2 there is a Bryan Singer Superman. For every Spiderman 1 & 2 there is a Spiderman 3. For every Iron Man there is the Incredible Hulk. Don’t even get me started on how bad the movie Batman and Robin is. Side note: Batman and Robin was so bad it almost single handily killed the super hero genre. Many people attribute the movie Blade with reviving the genre.

Recently fans of the super hero genre became giddy when it was announced that Christopher Nolan (Director of Batman Begins and the Dark Knight) was going to revive the Superman franchise. It doesn’t look like he will direct the film but it’s going to be written by David Goyer, the writer of the Dark Knight and the Blade trilogy. Being a big Superman fan this makes me very excited!