Superheroes are no longer saving the box office
Superheroes are no longer saving the box office
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Superheroes are no longer saving the box office
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Thank God. I can't stand superhero/comic book movies.
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Some of the Batman ones are OK. Watchmen and Antman were fine.
I still remember going to see Ironman 1 or 2 in the cinema what seems like 15+ years ago.
There was a scene where the oligarch is captured by the Taliban and he is held hostage in a cave. He then builds an ironman costume (from scrap?) in the cave and kicks the Taliban's ass. I was laughing at the stupidity of the scene.
It's at that moment I realized this stuff is not for me.
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It's saturation, Disney+, and the inflation/recession combo.
All it takes is a few misses and people will wait for streaming.
Me, I'll watch everything Marvel but I can wait, so when I was ready to go see a movie and it came down to Superman or Fantastic Four, the choice was easy. Superman delivered exactly what I wanted and needed.
I don't think this is superhero fatigue, or at least that's a lower issue on the list. It's Marvel (formula) fatigue especially, and I think they will right that ship soon.
People who make shitty movies like to blame fatigue or wokeness or racism instead of the root cause of poorly written stories.
Simplification that is not true. Thunderbolts was a better written superhero movie but no one went to see it.
James Gunn is good at what he does because he's passionate about the stories and characters. Disney uses characters and stories as profit inducers. That's the difference. James Gunn is going to end the MCU unintentionally by just being better at character development.