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moviesEh, I'm sure it'll do fine on streaming.
None of us can afford to go to the movie theater anymore so this sort of story means nothing.
Yup. I see about a movie in theaters a year. Would have gone to see this one if I didn’t need to eat food to live.
Superman was a really fun movie, but it felt pretty obvious it's gonna be mostly downhill from here. But I'm totally fine with that, I don't want another franchise that tries to make me constantly watch just so I can keep up. Maybe they'll hit on another winner, but I'm not holding my breath. And in this case I'd definitely say the actress was robbed. The story, pacing, and general feel of the movie were where it fell flat for me.
It was slightly more interesting than I assumed it would be, but that’s a low bar.
The movie used seven decades of tricks to take away her powers so we never actually got to see her be super. Every 5 minutes another thing takes away her powers. Even in the final battle the climactic ending of the movie she's shot with a kryptonite arrow and has to fight at a handicap. It's just a piss poor movie.
The acting was great, the story concept was great, but the scene to scene plot was just abysmal.
So the movie is actually just Girl.
It’s why so many of the DC stuff is so boring. These are superpowers that have minimum viable characters wrapped around them. The only interesting thing that can happen to them is changing their powers.
I watched this movie, and they really tried to make it interesting. She starts as a total screwup and arcs towards greatness. But none of the motivation makes any sense and so most of her decisions come down to “if she didn’t do this the plot wouldn’t move forward.” Frankly, that’s how almost every superhero movie feels now.
I think the problem with this movie is that a) it wasn’t for kids and b) it wasn’t for manchildren who wear clothes with Batman logos on them. Not a lot of market left after that.
I tried watching it yesterday and could not make it past about 15 mins.
It wasn't a great movie, but it wasn't that bad either. The issue isn't the movie. The issue is that people, like myself, rarely go to the movie theater anymore. It has to be of significant quality of a movie (think: The Matrix, The Odyssey, Spaceballs 2 :D ) to even consider going to deal with the people, the high price, etc.
I think it's a mix of reasons, the biggest one obviously being the movie is mediocre. But I think the other big reason is that Supergirl just isn't a franchise most people care about. People would flock to the cinema for Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, maybe even Aquaman because he's better known. But a story about Superman's sister running around in space? Ehhhh...
I think it is more base than that. The whole appeal of Superman is that he is the most powerful man not powerful human, so sharing the power with a woman delutes how the character make us feel. This is why not all female superheroe movies are a flop. She just needs to have different powers.
Sister thought she his cousin?
Oh yeah you're right
Yep, I think we're both correct. https://www.pewresearch.org/chart/domestic-ticket-sales-plunged-during-the-pandemic-and-still-havent-recovered/
To add another reason, Hollywood producers seem quite keen to rehash the same movie or type of movie over and over. They remake movies literally multiple times. And they have nearly zero original movie ideas that they promote. Sure, superhero movies since Iron Man has done fairly well -- because the comic book nerds finally grew up and have their own money to spend. But that isn't going to last, especially in this post-pandemic, greed-ridden, unregulated economy.
None of this should be a surprise to any studio exec or producer.
Im more surprised to hear theaters are even open during Covid times
Covid times been over.
I mean idk I been holed up since covid began, so I'm not aware of whats going on outside.
I'm watching it right now, trying to at least, and it's ... crap. Dull, uninspired, pointless.
It's definitely dull and uninspired, which is a shame because I love the Tom King run it's based on. I liked Milly Alcock as Kara, she nails that disaffected youth feel from the book, but the dialogue, camerawork, and action scenes just don't land.
I turned it off halfway through and maybe I'll pick it up later. It's head and shoulders better than the Snyderverse stuff, but at least had the decency to be bad enough to make me angry about it. This is just meh.
So its a DC/Marvel film.
Haven't seen it yet but surprised it could be worse than the late crap Snyder was pumping for them
It isn't
I wonder whether these figures ever account for tax breaks and such? Anybody more familiar with the industry know, since you know... nearly every damn thing made these days has several states, provinces or countries listed in their "thanks for the free money" section of credit scenes.
