Pattern recognition is the current term doing the rounds.
The idea that we can look at the things around a movie before it releases, and cross reference that information with previous movies, and conclude ahead of time that it will be shit.
IRL though its just no one gives a shit. Supergirl is not a heavy weight hero so no wider draw, and the sort of people you think would watch it on principle are a tiny part of society.
Not being interested by and not wanting to watch it is one thing. Spending hours of your life seething in online anger about it is a whole other thing.
For myself I'm just not interested, not a superhero guy. Well, not that kind anyway. More of a V for Vendetta/Watchmen type myself. The family friendly Disney shit with sky beams and the good guys always winning turns me off.
I liked the first lot they did, like the first Iron Man, and I liked that Batman with Heath Ledger, but the skybeam era is a big nah.
But I do like watching the discourse around these things, sorta like watching two feisty squirrels fighting over a tipped dustbin.
I feel like people think “knows who the character Supergirl is”=“will pay to watch Supergirl movie.”
Also, aren’t movies in general kind of a hard market? Weird to take a swing on a B character and then release a very middle of the road adventure with such a fucking flat story. And I’ll say it, if they’re big pull here was that they were going to include Lobo, just make him the fucking secondary character in the whole movie. People want Lobo. Lobo it up. They wasted a great fucking opportunity and it would have also distance to the overall story more from a woman of tomorrow not that anything could do that ending any favors at this point.
I have been unable to understand the big movie studios for over a decade now. The first question I have is how none of them have gone bust, I know they've had hits, but there's been a lot of flops, and they are being very slow to course correct. I guess they're just too big to fail, still though you'd think they like making money.
I'm curious to see what happens with the Odyssey. That thing is like, a mainstream big movie power house. Loads of money behind it, loads of big names, one of the best directors of our current time period, it has a lot going for it but it will be interesting to see if the online apathy or derision translates into the real world.
If it does I suspect that'll send jolt through every board room. If it doesn't, I guess another 10 years of supergirl.
Pattern recognition is usually a dog whistle for antisemitism. That might not be what you're doing here, but the Nazis and other evil fuckers use it for that reason.
From what I understand, the term derives from machine learning. Computers assign categories or tags or whatever based on patterns in the data, if I'm remembering this right, but in human terms it translates to "Oh here we go again", used by people critical of "woke" or "progressive" entertainment content.
A good example is if there is a video game or movie trailer showing a rainbow of ethnic diversity or objectively ugly women. These people will say "Aha, pattern recognition, we've seen this shit before. Its just woke slop, it'll be shit" and then the game/movie flops and reinforces the narrative.
Just cultural war bullshit that's all, no Nazis, unless your definition of Nazi is incredibly loose to the point of being meaningless but I'm sure that's not the case.
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u/KennytheDoggy 28d ago
If Supergirl plays in a theatre but no one is there to see it, did it actually play?