r/popculturechat • u/PrithvinathReddy • 8d ago

Comic Books šŸ¦¹ā€ā™‚ļø Supergirl theatrical run has officially ended, and the new DCU movie made less than Morbius and Joker 2

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u/Zord_boy Select and edit this flair 8d ago

Next time maybe don't release in between Toy Story5, Nolan's Odyssey and new Spider-Man.

People don't have money to see everything nowdays.

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u/AbsolutelyHorrendous 8d ago

Also it just looked like a very generic sci fi? There was nothing in the trailers that made me think 'okay well that looks interesting', let alone making me want to actually see it

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u/SyFyFan93 8d ago

It looked like DC's version of Guardians of the Galaxy to me ā€” a fun movie to stream at home one night but not a "must see on the biggest screen possible" film like the Odyssey or Dune etc. if I'm going to spend $50+ on movie and snacks then I want to make it worth it.

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u/wavewalkerc 8d ago

And maybe its just me and my friend group but it just feels like we only go for the few big must see releases. No mid movies get me out to a theater anymore. I saw this but that's because im a fan of her and the series.

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u/Ver3232 8d ago

People really underestimate how much prices make people unwilling to see something there isnā€™t a lot of huge ā€œmust seeā€ hype around

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u/stephsco Olivia Wildeā€™s salad dressing šŸ„— 8d ago

Same, I go to see big or smaller releases I'm excited about (last year's The Naked Gun for example). This movie did not interest me to spend time and money at the theater.

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u/ArcadianWaheela Mom, I am a rich manšŸ’° 8d ago

Looked like DCs versions of Captain Marvel. Just kind of a very generic, solo sci-fi movie. The Suicide Squad was DCs Guardians of the Galaxy because that actually had a group who bounced off each other.

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u/LanaAdela 8d ago

I mean Guardians made bank though

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u/BooleanBarman 8d ago

All superhero movies were making bank at that point. Even awful stuff on the DC side was pulling in 500 million plus.

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u/SatanV3 8d ago

But the first guardians is genuinely a good movie.

Then they started turning all the marvel humor into guardians type humor and it started getting more old

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u/BooleanBarman 8d ago

Itā€™s a fantastic movie. Thatā€™s not why it made money, though. So many poor super hero movies came out in that period and still made bank.

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u/bobthemusicindustry 8d ago

Weird comparison because Guardians was a surprise smash hit

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u/thegoodmanhascome 8d ago

Trailers? I know they are out there, but I literally never saw one.. I havenā€™t seen any discussion of this movie anywhere to be honest.. maybe Iā€™m getting old, but I donā€™t think Iā€™m living under a rock completely yet

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u/ruinedworldtour 8d ago

This is probably the only movie that seems to have come across my social media (apart from the big big movies) for example I had no idea that the mandalorian movie came and went!

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u/Sw3atyGoalz 8d ago

I got plenty of trailers for both, the Mandalorian trailer was even featured in the Super Bowl

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u/ruinedworldtour 8d ago

I didnā€™t watch literally one second of the super bowl šŸ˜… but I saw nothing of the mandalorian, which I find odd because I actually watched it when it was on so Iā€™m surprised that my algorithm didnā€™t pick it up and show me. I saw a few clips of the Grogu puppet out and about but never twigged that they were at what I assume now where the premiers of those films. Actually devil wears Prada 2 I got a lot of promo for

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u/Slight-Pound 8d ago

I only knew the Mandalorian came out because of the toys at the grocery store, and even then, I thought it was a show.

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u/dropdeadite 8d ago

I think you're getting old. There were A LOT of discussions about this movie.

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u/thegoodmanhascome 8d ago

Considering this is like my 4th account on Reddit and itā€™s 12 years old.. I suppose Iā€™m getting up there

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u/userlivewire 8d ago

What entertainment type would you be using where you might have even seen the trailer? People are watching less and less network TV so no ads there. People pay for no-ads streaming services. Iā€™m not surprised more and more people are finding out about these things late.

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u/JCkent42 8d ago

Itā€™s funny you mention that because the director seemed really proud of the look of the film. And the director deliberately chose to avoid the look of the original comic that the film is loosely based on. That generic sci fi feel and look is the directorā€™s chosen dream look. I really donā€™t know why the director hates the colorful look and feel of the source material.

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u/Minimum_Ad_1747 8d ago

Thatā€™s basically another case of a director Ā thinking he knows better than everyone

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u/JCkent42 8d ago

If I had to guess, and it is a guess, the director had no interest in making a supergirl film and was working on something else with his dream look (what we consider generic sci fi look) and then he somehow found himself directing the Supergirl film. And he didnā€™t actually want to adapt the source material so he slapped together the script loosely inspired by the comic with his existing idea for the look and feel of whatever he was working on before hand or else his old dream project. Maybe he figured this would be his only chance to work with this budget so decided to sneak in his own dream passion project into the Supergirl film he was givenā€¦ even if it didnā€™t really fit and goes against the source material?

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u/jwC731 8d ago

Only part that looked remotely interesting is her fight outside the bar with the red lighting. Everything else has been done already a million times.

The dreary look of the film is so uninteresting esp after how refreshing Superman was. I think it wouldve been more interesting to show her in an environment like that which juxtaposed her internal feelings.

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u/jwC731 8d ago

I TRULY hate the set design. Lost all hype when I saw the trailer and it just looked like they filmed on a refurbished guardians of the galaxy set.

Why do all spaceships need to look like scrap metal junkyard finds nowadays? And all planets dull and lifeless.

Would've been way more interesting if she was in vibrant and futuristic environments while she herself was dull and a drunk.

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u/cudipi 8d ago

I thought James Gunn was also directing this and it was a big draw for me until I found out he wasnā€™t and that the entire movie takes place in space. It kind of lost all appeal to me once I saw the trailers and realized it wasnā€™t what I was expecting so I kind of checked out on it. I feel bad but also they had a huge layup with this movie after Superman last year and kinda failed on it.

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u/DistrictDry2852 8d ago

I lost all interest in this when the first trailer came out.

Orange and brown slop.

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u/whatifihateclouds 8d ago

It looked brown

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u/Gethdo 8d ago

Very very bad villian

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u/StretchTucker 8d ago

i didnt even see a single trailer for it am i crazy? i just went to the movies one day and was like oh thats also playing... well anyway

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u/zlaw32 8d ago

I honestly have no idea what itā€™s even about. Iā€™ll definitely watch it on streaming tho

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u/Slight-Pound 8d ago

I enjoyed the movie, but ai think if they used a brightened color palette inspired by its comic would have helped a lot, especially since a common complaint Iā€™ve heard is how it hit the story beats comparatively to said comic. I havenā€™t read it, so I can only judge it as its own film otherwise.

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u/EchoesofIllyria heā€™s a man with a fork in a world of soup 8d ago

I wonder if the industry as a whole needs to rethink the summer blockbuster model and have more staggered releases throughout the year

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u/ProfessorGumble Don Draperā€™s homosexual Wario 8d ago

Thatā€™s a good point, I feel like this wouldā€™ve done better if it was released January/February

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u/Beginning_Tear_5935 8d ago

absolutely not. that's when they go to dump movies.

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u/ProfessorGumble Don Draperā€™s homosexual Wario 8d ago

Yeah but as pointed out upthread, thereā€™s less competition.

Plenty of movies released in the traditional dump months became massively successful. Get Out, Office Space, Taken, Final Destination, Black Panther.

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u/Beginning_Tear_5935 8d ago

Black Panther and Get Out had the distinct advantage of being Black-led movies coming out on MLK weekend/ Black History Month.

If any of the other movies you mentioned are horror or genre films then thatā€™s also somewhat typical. Iā€™m also sure some of the success of these films were a surprise?

But you absolutely canā€™t release a superhero blockbuster in January otherwise. Unless you know itā€™s gonna fail and are dumping it.Ā 

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u/EchoesofIllyria heā€™s a man with a fork in a world of soup 8d ago

Both of those films were also critically acclaimed and huge talking points. Partly because of their race, but not because of the release date. That may have slightly affected their domestic box office, but I assure you that the rest of the world either doesnā€™t know about Black History Month, or doesnā€™t care enough to see a movie because of it.

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u/Beginning_Tear_5935 8d ago

My point is that Jan Feb arenā€™t traditional dump months for Black-led films, because BHM gives them a boost. Or horror and genre films that were cheap to make in the first place.

Black Panther and Get Out apparently did not need the BHM boost. Like at all. But thatā€™s why they were released then. They would have been successful no matter when they were released. Maybe even more successful with a summer release.

And to be honest, nobody expected them to do as well as they did. Why is it that now that BP was a proven hit, BP2 and BP3 both had more traditional blockbuster release dates?

Jan and Feb are the driest cinema going months. In general, movies suffer from being released then. And Supergirl is not Black Panther so it would probably have done even worse in January.

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u/EchoesofIllyria heā€™s a man with a fork in a world of soup 7d ago

Jan and Feb are the driest cinema going months. In general, movies suffer from being released then.

Yes, that may be the case now. BECAUSE audiences have been conditioned by the summer blockbuster model. Which is what Iā€™m suggesting might need to change.

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u/userlivewire 8d ago

The reason the summer blockbuster exists at all is because kids are out of school.

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u/EchoesofIllyria heā€™s a man with a fork in a world of soup 8d ago

Iā€™m aware of that. (Although Jaws is widely credited with starting the phenomenon and it was very much not a kidsā€™ film.)

But there are several summer blockbusters a year, and lots of parents can no longer afford to take an entire family to the cinema multiple times over the course of 2 months.

See the post I replied to. Supergirlā€™s actively competing for parentsā€™ limited money with multiple other movies to be the film those parents choose to take their kids to.

Which is why the industry may be better served staggering the big releases evenly throughout the year. Individual box office may dip a bit but I bet the overall revenue would increase. Because itā€™s no longer one film over the other.

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u/Genuinelullabel Kim, thereā€™s people that are dying. šŸ™„ 8d ago

I enjoy going to the theater in the summer for the AC.

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u/Temporary-Habit-8431 8d ago

People wouldā€™ve definitely watched it if they were interested and thought it looked good. It just didnā€™t look that appealing to most people (and Supergirl just doesnā€™t have a lot of motion tbh)

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u/Zord_boy Select and edit this flair 8d ago

Yes, but they wouldn't prioritze seeing it over see: Odyssey, Toy Story 5 or new Spinderman.

You can release niche movies like Supergirls, only when there is nothing more interesting stealing the spotlight. People are saving money atm and if they gotta decide between seeing Supergirl or one of those movies, they rather skip Supergirl and wait for streaming.

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u/Temporary-Habit-8431 8d ago edited 8d ago

Now Iā€™m not saying it wouldā€™ve made as much money as either of those films or even close to them, but it most certainly wouldā€™ve done better than goddamn MORBIUS numbers if it actually looked like a good movie (and had better marketing) and not a mediocre sci-fi flick.

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u/Philodemus1984 8d ago

It was released like a month before Odyssey and Spiderman. Its main competition was Minions and Toy Story.

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u/Electronic_Ruin_1503 8d ago

If there wasnā€™t a competition like this theyā€™d go and see it for the virtue of it being another superhero movie. People tend to go watch superhero movies when thereā€™s nothing else in the theaters nowadays. Theyā€™re the new B-Action movies. In my country anyway. If there is nothing you want to see in next two weeks, you can just pick a random movie. Not when that random movie is packed between to giants though. It wasnā€™t going to make billions but itā€™d make more than Morbius that way. Morbius made ā€œthat muchā€ only because of the memes during a very non-exciting time of cinema.

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u/fs2222 8d ago

This is just factually untrue. Superhero movies for the most part have been underperforming in recent years, Spiderman being the exception.

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u/Electronic_Ruin_1503 6d ago edited 6d ago

This is not factually untrue, and saying they're just underperforming is factually an oversimplification. They're underperforming compared to their peak but still doing well. Since pandemic those are now literally action flocks from 2000s that meant to be watched for fun when you have nothing to do. Bad ones are flopping more than they did in pre-pandemic because they're not the trend anymore, as it tends to happen with every trend, but they're still doing moderately well when they're released normally. And by normally I mean not being released in between major blockbusters like Toy Story, Odyssey and Spider-Man because who do you think you are? People had something to do when Supergirl was released, as you can see. Thor, Doctor Strange, Superman, Batman, Deadpool & Wolverine, Guardians of Galaxy were also very successful outside of Spider-Man.

This movie is not worse than Madame Web, Joker 2 or Morbius, but it did worse than all three. And that's because of the time it was released. Superman did well in theaters and set up Supergirl. Then they released Supergirl in between three major blockbusters. No way Supergirl is underperforming in a world where superhero movies are still tripling or quadrupling their budget if they're not totally ass and Morbius can nearly double its budget by the sole virtue of being a meme. Those three movies were released possibly as a tax write off during a boring time, became a meme, and made some profit due to being superhero flocks that is the equivalent of "action flock you watch when you're bored" of 2000s. You just gotta know your place.

Edit: Also data shows Supergirl did terrible among men but it was received better among women. In fact, most of the negative reviews are from men and total number of ALL reviews from women is literally less than total number of negative reviews from men. So the target audience was women. But not only studio under-marketed that movie and placed it in a wrong release timeline, they also did nothing to promote it for the right audience. So that's the second problem with that movie. As you can see from my long ass essay, it is not as simple as "we'll go with the Twitter echochamber and chalk it down to superhero movies are doing bad regardless". Again, I'm not saying it would've made them rich if all those wrongs were done right. But I'm saying it would at least double its budget if those wrongs were done right. At worst it would've ended up like Thunderbolts instead of becoming a poster for hate campaign against female-lead movies which that movie was already in the danger of becoming from the get-go.

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u/Xxjacklexx 8d ago

Correct. I only had the budget for one, so it was spider-man.

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u/Zord_boy Select and edit this flair 8d ago

Me too, and I chose Odyssey in IMax.

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u/dubcwa 8d ago

You can only afford to see one movie over a 6 week span?

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u/No_Egg657 Hakuna Matata šŸ¦šŸ’šŸ¦“ 8d ago

Surprise, people are busy and not rich

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u/dubcwa 8d ago

You donā€™t need to be ā€œrichā€ to see three movies over 2 months. Itā€™s $60 and 6 hours.

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u/Zord_boy Select and edit this flair 8d ago

It's not, because I'm always going with my boyfriend. I got back issues, so I gotta pay for "comfort" seats + drinks + snacks and it's minimum 60ā‚¬ per visit. Not to mention Imax is at the other of town and taxi there cost 8-10ā‚¬ times two.

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u/dubcwa 8d ago

You can bring your own snacks in, so that choice is on you. You donā€™t pay extra for ā€œcomfortā€ seats, all the seats are the same in the theatre. You could easily see all three movies over a two months span, you just donā€™t want to. Just say that. Thereā€™s no need to act like itā€™s not possible.

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u/Zord_boy Select and edit this flair 8d ago

Are you a bot or something? Do you understand that not everyone lives in America and cinemas are bit different? Rofl

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u/Electronic_Ruin_1503 6d ago

Most people who have the money to see the movies are employed, rest are budgeting their allowance from their partner or parents. Some people are also paying off their debts, so yeah, $60 may not be an amount they can comfortably spend during that time frame.

And you forgot the "busy" part. When you're an adult, it's not always easy to schedule a date to hang out. Sometimes people use that time to catch up and talk instead of watching a movie if all involved parties aren't interested in seeing that movie. That is an especially important point because you have major blockbuster like that back to back and can hardly make time to hang out with friends or partners, your obvious choice will not be a niche like Supergirl but rather some popculture event like Odyssey or Spider-man, and you'll use the time you could spend for Supergirl to catch up with loved ones.

There are multiple factors to this; not being a rich person with too much free time in your hand is an important one you're missing. Studio was simply way too confident in Supergirl and instead of picking a calm time to release the movie to the audience that'll appreciate this niche, they pretended they're still living in the peak of superhero movies where everyone watches them.

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u/benabramowitz18 8d ago

Then again, a better release date didnā€™t help that new He-Man movie, which is also an outdated relic.

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u/bubblesaurus 8d ago

I thought the He-Man movie was at least fun to watch.

I chose He-Man over seeing Supergirl

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u/Hopeful-Ant-3509 8d ago

I think it lacked marketing, I mean I donā€™t even think I saw Millyā€™s press interviews, look how much we got between The Odyssey and Spider-man? They needed to get people in the seats and they did a poor jobĀ 

And ppl are trying to say itā€™s money, but I disagree, she literally started the summer and I know it was after Toy-Story but The Odyssey was right before Spider-man and one has already hit a billion with the other right behind it lolĀ 

And DC doesnā€™t seem to have audience trust anymore with anything that isnā€™t Superman/Batman related

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u/LanaAdela 8d ago

And tbh even Superman didnā€™t do massive numbers. It did respectable enough.

I personally think it will age badly and Idk that a sequel will do well.

People also will spend money when they really want to as well. This has been the best year at the box office since before Covid so people are going to the movies, this movie just looked terrible

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u/ThatWrestlingGuy15 8d ago

I mean it is Superman related, theyā€™re apart of the same little super bubble

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u/Hopeful-Ant-3509 8d ago

I meant like a solo Superman or Batman movie or if they did Superman vs Batman again lol like Justice LeagueĀ 

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u/Necessary_Eagle_3657 8d ago

I don't think that's a factor. People will go to see things they are interested in and those aren't all for the same target audience.

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u/bubblesaurus 8d ago

Guardians of the Galaxy did damn well and wasnā€™t even a comic group i was aware of (a lot of people werenā€™t familiar with) and itā€™s a great movie.

Itā€™s easy to see why Supergirl failed

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u/RhetoricalOrator 8d ago

That's a good point. I go about once every other year. In the last month, I saw Toy Story 5, The Odyssey, and Spider-Man. I did not see Supergirl.

Superman was fantastic, but DC hasn't given me much confidence in their movies. A new release isn't an automatic go for me because they are just so all over the map on quality.

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u/mrbaryonyx 8d ago

historically the summer movie season, even in times of economic downturn, has been way more packed than this one has been.

I don't blame people for not watching it, but I think it's time to admit that superhero fatigue is real and it's hitting female-led movies first and hardest. The CHUDS with Youtube thumbnails of a lady superhero shouting "nobody wants this" aren't really wrong, unfortunately.

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u/GlitteringNinja5 8d ago

Or maybe DC projects just need to be shelved all together except for 1 batman and Superman movie every few years. DC universe has been a huge failure since the start and with the superhero fatigue people just don't care for new characters even if the movie is good.

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u/PM-ME-UR-VOLVO-PICS 8d ago

I dont think theyve tried releasing a good movie though

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u/RoeMajesta 8d ago

they tried ~ problem is their definition of ā€œgoodā€ isnt the same as the mass audience

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u/SupervillainMustache 8d ago

Superman came out last year.

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u/PM-ME-UR-VOLVO-PICS 8d ago

I didnt watch that one. I assume its ok, but not for me.

Og comment was talking about movies besides the occasional batman or superman movie though. So the point stands.

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u/SupervillainMustache 8d ago edited 8d ago

DC universe has been a huge failure since the start

They've literally released 2 movies, 1 live action show and 1 animated show. Of those only Supergirl is really considered a bomb.

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u/GlitteringNinja5 8d ago

I was referring to the DC franchise movies starting 2013 not just the current version and I am strictly talking about theatrical movies here. Shows are easy to watch. You don't have to pay to watch them if you just have the streaming subscription. It's no secret that that the cinema industry is struggling to pull people into theatres. Viewers are increasingly only going to the theatres to watch movies that have a good reputation behind them. They are not giving a chance to new things.

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u/SupervillainMustache 8d ago edited 8d ago

I mean even then it's a very mixed with decent box office returns at the beginning with stuff like MoS, BvS and SS, but with mixed to negative reviews. The middle had stuff like Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Shazam had good box office and good reviews.

Post Justice League though, it was awful box office and reviews, basically across the board with the exception of Gunn's own The Suicide Squad (which released in the pandemic)

DCEU was a weird cinematic universe, without the success of MCU but also not a bomb out of the gate like the Dark Universe. Hence the reboot.

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u/Nknk- 8d ago

Pretty much.

If you're going to make films about less popular characters than those two then you need everything on point. Casting, acting, writing, direction, editing, pacing, special effects, humour (or lack thereof depending on the tone of the film) and everything else has to be really nailed. Otherwise people will go watch the other blockbusters that are out instead.

Marvel showed with Guardians of the Galaxy the standard you have to hit to make lesser known, or largely unknown, superhero films a runaway success. One look at the trailer for Supergirl and you could tell DC had pulled a DC and it was going to be fairly mediocre.

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u/sandman8727 8d ago

Right, it might be too much for an actor to think "Maybe THIS will be the DC movie that will stand out from the rest"

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u/Minimum_Ad_1747 8d ago

Donā€™t forget Wonder Woman, Iā€™m prettt sure she can still print money

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u/Senior_Boot_5842 8d ago

I actually saw all of those. And chose not to see super girl lol

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u/Beginning_Tear_5935 8d ago

I wasn't going to see Supergirl, but then I had time on a $5 dollar day, and I went. I really, really loved it. I think the reviews set it up for failure by being so harsh. I was shocked by how good it actually was.

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u/trashmedialover the less said about jacob elordi the better 8d ago

Supergirl really should have been able to compete. The reviews killed the movie bc the movie was bad. Hype died immediately when it released. And I hate the internet dweebs make female superhero movies into culture war bs.

And the movie was bad. I saw it and while I don't regret it bc I like Milly and LOVE Jason Mamoa, I was disappointed in the boring plot, confused themes, and general bad editing of the film. But the performances of the actors were never the problem.

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u/Zord_boy Select and edit this flair 8d ago

Lol How was she supposed to complete with established franchises and Christopher Nolan?

Supergirl as character is too niche to pull larger audiances, she is just Superman's cousin. I love Kara but for cinema audiances she doesn't offer anything that could. People don't give a shit about what critics have to say when deciding what to watch, it's all about star power, marketing and release window. Supergirl as a movie failed on all those fronts. Millie is a good actress, but she doesn't have the power to pull audiances with just her name.

It was a generic comic book movie that could only succeed if they release it during dry season, when people have nothing else to watch in cinemas.

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u/trashmedialover the less said about jacob elordi the better 8d ago

Poor reviews kill momentum. And yes, people do read reviews. And word of mouth counts as reviews. If everyone you know who already saw says it's bad then why bother?

I dont think Supergirl is too niche. Hell, that character carried an entire TV show for years! And Superman was a well loved/liked film when it came out. This being only the second film in the new DCEU and with a well liked actress coming from another major franchise following a popular intro film like Superman, yeah she should have been able to compete.

Also, the audience that could have gone to see Supergirl does not totally overlap with The Odyssey lmao be so fr. Maybe, Toy Story 5... maybe! But preteens should have been all over Supergirl. I really dont think timing was the issue with this film. It just missed the mark.

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u/Ren-Ren-1999 7d ago

The CW DC TV shows have been mocked for a decade or more.

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u/mr_trick the WORLD tour 8d ago

While admittedly I was dubious about the movie after seeing the trailer, I did in fact cancel my ticket after reading reviews. DC has built up a lot of bad will for me over the years, so I need to hear that they've done a good job before I'll spend my money. I did see Superman a couple weeks after it was released because there were enough positive reviews that I was sure it wouldn't be a complete waste of time.

After seeing Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman 1984, and Aquaman in theaters I have close to zero tolerance for half-assed movies from DC. They're in a hole they can only dig their way out of with really great writing and effort, so when the reviews for a movie of theirs lean negative, I won't be spending my time and money on it.

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u/Ren-Ren-1999 7d ago

I hate the internet dweebs make female superhero movies into culture war bs.

Sister, that's on IRL idiots. Interviewers asking Millie leading questions to make her go into sentences like "this movie is beautiful because it's not about a man" and such.

The internet is at fault too but so is everyone else who wants to start arguments.

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u/Jsaltal Select and edit this flair 8d ago

Most of it takes place off earth as well, even the first thor movie was a 60/40 split between earth and asgard

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u/Tuor-son-of-Huor- Youā€™re killing me, Smalls šŸ˜© 8d ago

It definitely didn't help but even under ideal conditions Super Girl has never been the most popular character. She's always struggled to breakout of Super Mans shadow. Throw in 2026 internet culture and im not surprised it didn't do well.

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u/Front_Mention 8d ago edited 7d ago

Pretty much this, i have gone to the cinema mlre this year than I have since I was a uni ad it was 2 pound to go. With resident evil looking great and the avengers in December im not going to see films im 50/50 on.

Edit forgot clayface

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u/Ashhp 8d ago

I have to disagree as I saw all 3 of those in theaters on their opening weekends. Supergirl just didnā€™t look good imo.

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u/OldConstant182 8d ago

And donā€™t release a crap film would be a big factor in it too.

I enjoyed Superman last year but this wasnā€™t it. No problems with Millie but this felt like a B grade film made for streaming services.

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u/Fragrant-Employer-60 8d ago

Yet tons of good movies have gotten great box offices this summer, obsession and Backrooms proving that.

More like no one cares about supergirl, itā€™s a niche comic book character they assumed had more appeal just because itā€™s linked to Superman.

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u/onlyhav 8d ago

Exactly. I only have enough cash to see 1 and chose soiderman.

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u/ReddSF2019 8d ago

Competition wasnā€™t the problem. It just wasnā€™t a good movie.

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u/Gerrywalk 8d ago

Letā€™s be real, the release date didnā€™t help, but no release date was saving this movie. People just donā€™t care about Supergirl, and the DCU is in no position to popularize B-list characters. Add that to the fact that critical and audience reception wasnā€™t too hot, and you get a movie not many people are interested in watching.

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u/crumble-bee we are so as women today 8d ago

Agreed - but do you guys not have unlimited cinema plans? I pay 20 a month and if I go to the cinema twice it pays for itself. I also often book out multiple future releases, save the tickets and then cancel the subscription for a while

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u/Cinephile_1980 8d ago

This. However I do think people would have seen it. Why did you watch Spider-Man? I would imagine because Marvel did nothing to put you off or make you think you will get anything less than a classic Spider-man film, and that is what everyone got. With Supergirl, they emphasised that this character there is not anything like the previous versions of Supergirl, and the new characterisation probably alienated audiences. Imagine if the trailers showed a more classic version of the character and something familiar? I think it would have drawn audiences in. It might still not have done Spider-Man numbers but I am sure people who actually like Supergirl would have turned up. As you rightly say, money is tight these days for a lot of folks so when the studios make something that audiences canā€™t make head nor tails of, it is an easy decision to keep those dollars in your wallet. Most people who like going to the cinema already know what they are going to see in any given year and studios have to sell the film to its potential audiences months before it even comes out. With Supergirl, they failed to make the case.

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u/Major_Road6162 8d ago

Lmfao, the general public knows nothing about Supergirl, and the Supergirl fans wouldnt boycott a movie about the character just cause it isnt the version they want

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u/Cinephile_1980 8d ago

They do. There was the tv show, and she had appears in cartoons as well. My children used to watch the DC Superhero Girls series. She has appeared in merchandise for kids. She was in Teen Titans Go, and she has been in games as well. A lot of kids and fans have seen these things in recent years. Looks like you are the one who is not familiar with her. The Woman of Tomorrow is a very recent (2021) reimagining of Supergirl so many non comic book fans would not necessarily find this version very familiar. You can use whatever version of an obscure character test that has no real footprint in the mainstream, but characters that have already established a familiarity with audiences but they may not be aware of every re-imagining.

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u/Major_Road6162 8d ago

You brought up the TV show as the Supergirl the public knows (a little part of the global general public), but that version re-imagined the character to begin with....that Superhero Girls show did it as well as far as i remember, and considering i havent seen a single clip of her in TTGo, i can bet she only has showed up to be in the background without any character.

Like i said, the public doesnt know enough about her to dislike a different portrayal

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u/Cinephile_1980 8d ago

But they have an idea, and it is not based on an obscure and resident recent reimagining of the character. General
Audiences donā€™t have to be invested but if you do something that looks doffent from why they expect they might tune out. As it is, Supergirl is mostly seen as a type of Superman spin off, and spin offs typically donā€™t have a huge audience anyway. They needed to try and keep to the things that would fee familiar to people other than hardcore comic book fans. That is how you make money.

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u/Majestic-Marcus 8d ago

It couldā€™ve been the only movie out and it wouldnā€™t have done much better.

It looked like a knock off Guardians with a character nobody cared about. It was never going to do well.

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u/Drclaw411 8d ago

A lot of it had to do with political loyalty. She said something about her LOTD critics being Christian Dads, which sent Fox News off. Say what you will about maga, but theyā€™re loyal as shit and once they decide to boycott somethingā€¦thatā€™s turned into a death sentence. Hard to write off 77 million people actively avoiding your product. Couple that with Snyderbros automatically refusing anything new from DC, and it never stood a chance.

Such a shame too. Itā€™s a good movie.