‘Supergirl’ Braces for $100 Million Loss: What DC Studios Should Learn From Its Box Office Bomb (variety.com)

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[-] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 101 points 3 months ago

Let's take a break from super hero movies for awhile. Pick another genre to run into the ground and we'll come back to these after a few years.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 3 months ago

I think next up is westerns again or zombie movies again, it's all on a big carousel

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 3 months ago

Fallout is Western AND Zombies. So, yeah, that tracks.

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 18 points 3 months ago

And it's based on a video game, which seems to be the current trend.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago

New and fresh doesn't sell. The most brilliant body horror scifi work I'd seen in years, Scavenger's Reign, didn't even muster a second season.

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you like body horror The Substance was pretty good. Oh and Scavenger's Reign reminded me a little of Fantastic Planet (La Planète sauvage).

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago

I think the zombie theme is too fresh. I feel like it was only yesterday that everyone was talking about Walking Dead, so I guess it's time to remake the old spaghetti westerns. Hell, I'm surprised nobody already has remade The Good, The Bad, The Oxford Comma, and The Ugly.

[-] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

I'm up for Firefly again and open to more space westerns.

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 months ago

Well they ARE doing Firefly again, but in animation form

[-] johnny_deadeyes@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 months ago

Here I was holding out for pog form

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago

At least pogs are physical media

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

The track record for “reborn as animation” is much more promising.

[-] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

I find that recent superhero movies expect you to understand the world context from the kajillion movies and books that came before it. So much time is spent showing something or someone on screen with ominous music that makes it clear that you should already know what this means or who it is. I don’t have 700 hours of superhero world research to do before watching a movie, and I have started to hate this genre because the movies are becoming barely comprehensible on their own.