Is Marvel dying?

The Spectator ^ | 13 Feb 2024 | Ella Dorn

[Rummyfan]

Martin Scorsese thinks Marvel films aren’t cinema. “The pictures are made to satisfy a specific set of demands, and they are designed as variations on a finite number of themes,” he wrote in a New York Times article in 2019, written after a wave of backlash from superhero fans and directors alike. Earlier that year, Marvel’s three-hour blockbuster Avengers: Endgame had garnered over $2.7 billion. For a while it was the highest-grossing film ever made. People turned up to see it in spandex catsuits. You couldn’t move for replica infinity stones. Some theaters, eager to fill the demand, screened the film over and over for seventy-two straight hours.

Now everything’s coming up Scorsese. The Marvel strongmen have fallen from the sky and landed, cape-first, onto concrete. Last year’s The Marvels, a group outing of female superheroes, made a profit of only $47 million on its $200 million budget — the lowest box-office takeaway of any Marvel film. The film blog Deadline blames Disney+ streaming services. In its on-demand delivery of superhero “content,” it does away with most of the magic of going to the movies. Fair enough. But there are other dimensions to the decline.

I survey friends who like superhero films, only to find they’ve all gone off Marvel films. One says she hasn’t seen a Marvel film in nearly six years because the plots are too complicated. All of the heroes operate in the same universe: you have to have watched every Marvel release of the last decade to understand whatever they put out next. Another used to watch the films regularly but found that the different fight scenes started to merge into each other. Some pin the decline to the birth of Disney+ and others to the release of Endgame....

[1ScrappyArmyMom]

The Marvels made no profit. The person who wrote this is crap at understanding how movies make money.

Superhero movies are as dead as the majority of movies coming out of Hollywood due to being Woke pieces of garbage.

Make the movies nonwoke and it’s a different story. Deadpool and Wolverine’s preview is hugely popular, many can’t wait to see it. Deadpool mocks Disney Marvel a couple of times in the trailer.

People will consume media, but we are no longer confined to Hollywood garbage. We can watch movies and games made for audiences in other countries that are not slobbering liberal propaganda. Godzilla Minus One is a wonderful example.

We don’t have superhero fatigue, we have Disney and Sony fatigue. Who the hell let the same script writers for Moebius write Madam Web. The same woke twats keep falling up instead of being banned like the toxic waste they are.

[Zathras]

Deadpool2 killed it for me.
What a mess compared to original