The Recession and Our Obsession with Superheroes

It’s become an increasing occurrence that every time we head to the cinema, there’s a bigger, better, more in-your-face superhero movie splashed across the Coming Soon posters. If it’s not Spider-Man, it’s Superman, and then it’s Spider-Man rebooted, or Superman remade (for the second or third time). Superhero movies are getting more and more popular, and with budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars per film, you start to wonder what the big idea is when we’ve been in an economic recession since 2009.