There are a million theories about why Supergirl bombed at the box office including some Woke statements that Millie Alcock made. But if you look at the big picture, the trend is simply that Hollywood is dead. Millie Alcock could have gone on every interview and said how much she loved the USA and sang the Star-Spangled Banner while waiving American flags and the movie still would have bombed. Is the movie horrible? Yes. Is the script horrible? Yes. Was James Gunn the wrong person to be the architect of the DCU? Yes. Was Millie Alcock the wrong actress to be Supergirl? Perhaps. Are superhero movies a dead genre? Yes. Are Hollywood movies just too expensive to be profitable anymore? Yes. Is Hollywood out of touch? Yes. Have foreign markets like China, Korea and the UK built up their own movie industries to compete and put out good product? Yes. It all means that Hollywood is dying if not already dead. Supergirl is simply evidence of that.
They're all Woke Democrats.
They're still capable of producing entertaining movies (not that often).
And they can lose money. Especially Disney.
I still plan on seeing the movie anyway. I was VERY disappointed with James Gunn’s Superman movie. As a kid in the 60s, I remember the superheroes very differently. Plus I thought they were miscast. Not happy with it at all.
Not only that, if you wait a few weeks, these big Hollywood productions come up on the streaming platforms. My whole family can watch for the price of one admission.
The area around our local theater has been taken over by “buskers” - blasting rap music and dancing around for tips - making for a very unpleasant experience.
Haven’t been in a movie theater since 2019, have no plans to return - especially given the insulting, woke crap Hollywood keeps churning out.
I've been hearing that for years. It is lazy thinking and not accurate at all. Crappy Super Hero movies are dead. Good ones still work.
They were saying "Superhero Fatigue" years ago, and then "Spider Man No Way Home" came out, and was a huge success.
They said that was a fluke, and then "Deadpool vs Wolverine" came out, and it was a huge success.
People aren't tired of Super Hero movies. They are tired of shitty, obnoxious Super Hero movies.
Stop making it about Women, gays, and blacks, and start treating it more realistic, write good scripts and leave out "the message", and people are perfectly willing to watch Super Hero movies.
the only thing that might save USA-movies is to stop wasting billions on super-hero movies that everyone has seen a bazillion times already, and make movies that have interesting stories, interesting characters, interesting dialog, and interesting sets, that is, original movies with high production values that appeal to large audiences ...
the above wouldn’t be difficult to do: there are thousands of fantastic novels that meet the above criteria that could be turned into great movies IF made by talented producers, talented directors, and other talented movie makers, IF they made their stories true to the novels ... such movies wouldn’t even be expensive to produce given how inexpensive modern digital equipment is ... “Companion” and “Drowning Mona” are examples of two “small” and inexpensive movies that are very entertaining ...