Are superhero movies finally wearing out their welcome?

I hope so, but studios will have no idea what else to produce

Being superhero movies isn't what caused these to flop. There's another glaringly obvious similarity. It rhymes with "poke" and "swirl shower".

Star Wars properties are suffering the same fate.

Hmm, wonder what they have in common?

Give us a good superhero movie. Along the lines of Marvel phase 1 and 2 stuff. Stuff like the Netflix versions of Punisher and Dare Devil. People will eat it up.

It's more "lack of effort put into making good movies" than simply 'superhero movies."

Disney (especially) seemed to stop caring about making movies that are high in quality and that people want to see. Instead, they make movies that they pretend people are clamoring for, and when the masses don't show up they whine like bitches and claim some random woke buzzword to the people that didn't want to see a shitty product ("racists," "bigots," etc.).

If they actually put efforts back into making QUALITY movies/shows, people would go watch them. But until that happens, they'll just have to play stupid and pretend to not understand why they are hemorrhaging money.


ETA: I will say too that their decisions on which ones to move forward with were mindboggling to someone like me who has zero attachments to comic characters. Half of them I had never heard of, and the other half were characters I didn't give a shite about (and not "mainstream" names like Captain America, Hulk, etc.).

When it first was announced Phase 4 (or whatever one was after Endgame), I let out a gigantic MEH and assumed I wouldn't really watch any of them.

Outside of the new Spiderman trilogy (and really mainly the No Way Home one), nothing of the superhero genre has interested me. No Way Home was pretty awesome though.

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If GotG 3 is a mediocre too that officially sticks the knife in it.

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While it might not break records, GotG 3 is going to do extremely well (and then Gunn leaves for the opposition ).

The Marvels bombing in the Fall will probably do Feige in and there will be a complete housecleaning.

god i hope so.
that would mean i've successfully waited this thing out without watching any of them since superman 2

I know Antman underperformed, but what makes it dogshit? I thought it was really enjoyable, and Marvel's best post Endgame movie outside of Spiderman.

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very, very meh and underperformed relative to first one

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It made 850 million, and that's after it lost it leading star. I'd say the movie did just as expected.

Dr Strange movie, while being a letdown in quality. Still brought in damn near a billion dollars.

I think Infinity War and Endgame has warped people's minds a little bit. Those movies hitting 2 billion was a massive outlier. Most movies made about 600-900 million besides the large team-up films.

The last Spider-Man did pretty good. It’s just crap movies being released

If they aimed the movies at 12-15 yr old boys instead of 30 yr old militant lesbians these movies would still be printing money.

It's because the quality has dipped tremendously.

I say this a lot but its true, everything we got in the MCU up to Endgame was an amalgamation of the 'greatest hits' of Marvel. Except Captain Marvel, D list character that was never ever popular pushed as some sort of icon - that was when the 'rot' started setting in but at least we got what we got. These were approximations of popular runs and stories. like i said, 'greatest hits'


Everything after Endgame made by Disney was shlock based off post-2012 comics which gave us stuff nobody liked like lady thor, ironheart, and when the overall quality of the writing took a fricking nose dive.


What blows my mind is they have 50+ years of marvel comics stories to pull from, some great stories in there ... But they were in a mad rush to get to the post 2012 garbage so they could start smelling their own farts.

The Batman was really really good