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‘Supergirl’ Braces for $100 Million Loss: What DC Studios Should Learn From Its Box Office Bomb Box Office (variety.com)
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[–] 100 points 4 months ago (13 children)

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.

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  • [–] 27 points 4 months ago (10 children)

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

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  • [–] 41 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 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.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Well they ARE doing Firefly again, but in animation form

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  • [–] 7 points 4 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.

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