Summer movies and post-modernism

John Mark Reynolds believes that the popular summer films demonstrate that post-modernism doesn't affect popular culture at all:

Summer blockbusters show that the importance of post-modernism to the next generation is as much overrated as the first Matrix film.

In fact, I have come to disbelieve in popular postmodernism entirely.

Post-modernism does not exist as a powerful, popular cultural force.

There I said it . . . and however overstated it may be I think it closer to the truth than the opposite. This is despite worried or breathless (or both) people wanting to destroy it or marry it or turn it into a late night television show.

Apologetics may be ga-ga about refuting it . . . but the fact that theaters are still packing them in for plots drawn straight out of the non-ironic parts of the 1960’s suggests that Stan Lee may be more influential in this generation than Derrida.

People still like heroes, happy endings, and good guys defeating bad guys. The pirates aren’t . . . the bad guys are obvious . . . and unlikely events still show up to save the day. We are positively (he says with glee!) Medieval! ....

Source: Scriptorium Daily: On Comic Book Movies: What Spiderman, Pirates, and Other Summer Films Are Saying