I obviously can't speak for audiences as a whole, but I feel like superhero movies need to go away for a while. You've been milking that cow as hard as possible for at least 20 years and I am sick and tired of milk at this point. It's not sexism because the main character is female, it's not that lesser known characters don't draw interest, it's not that you needed a more well known lead, it's not that movies are too expensive. Yes, all of those things probably contribute to this outcome in one way or another, but for me personally I just don't want to see the same movie for the 50th time.

I went in questioning whether a movie about a lesser known character set entirely on alien planets with pretty much just alien characters this early in a franchise could work. But then I experienced the poor story telling... They really did a shit job turning that story into a movie. What a let down.

Maybe, just maybe… you can have a non-ultimate character having their story and it doesn’t have to be the end all be all of gods and monsters… which also means maybe it’s not a billion dollar movie either.

And (hear me out) that’s okay.

You can be hurt, you can be upset, you can lose it all…

And that’s okay…? Not a crisis event?

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.

It's not a loss. It's a tax writeoff.

That we want MORE superheroes, obviously

Unfortunately the only lesson will be "Woman superhero no make money."

wasn't like the number two movie last week?

Brace yourselves, here comes The Discourse...

Having seen it, I thought it was generic and the main plot very villain of the week. Backstory/flashbacks were decent. Based on what they were going for in the trailer... They needed to mix it up, my pitch: An R rating, let her crush some skulls. Let her not be Superman. Think Brightburn. Let her have an arc. Break some spines, accidentally and on purpose. show her having trouble controlling her new found powers on yellow star systems, laser people in half, not having to grow up on earth like Clark slowly learning to control his powers. Let her vent and pick fights in rough cesspools across the galaxy while binge drinking! :::spoiler That makes these Brigand folk, not just villains of the week, they're tougher, they can take a punch, they hurt Krypto::: and they're just what the doctor ordered, theyre cathartic... 😌💀🩸🩹

Maybe don't spend over $100M on a movie?

I stopped watching MCU like 10 years ago; DC is whatever too. It's just formulated crap. What happened to art?

Why would I watch a DC movie only to have it reboot 5 years later and re-hash the same story again

I enjoyed it. Sucks they didn't manage the finances better.

DC flopped during Marvel's prime era because thew threw away what made DC media unique and tried to copy paste Marvel's style like an ad.

After MCU hit endgame, there really was no plan forward so Disney did what Disney does best and started chuking money at new movie ideas expecting it to rake in the same amount as before.

DC meanwhile did another reboot and ended up back at square one trying to copy any superhero genre film that succeded which led them nowhere.

This genre is effectively dead for the foreseeable future because neither studio tried to experiment with the formula outside of single hits which doesn't bring in enough money to satisfy the corporate overlords at Disney and WB.

They demand an output of several projects a year which is too high for creating something genuinely new.

Rest of Hollywood probably won't greenlight anything because of oversaturation, and the two comic book giants will continue to pump out slop in an a poor effort to maximize profits like they already did with every other franchise.

Lesson - do not adapt a loved story only to make it worse in every way. Why adapt on of the most beautiful colorful comics and make it only brown and gray?

For me, the main stream super hero genre ended with Logan.

I will still see the occasional Spiderman film as a treat. (Skipping this years Tom Holland one. Waiting for beyond the spiderverse.)

Good. I have had Superhero fatigue since 2010 and was not a fan when the MCU became a thing. Like goddammit, we JUST went through the 2000s super hero craze and now you're telling me we are going to suffer through a decade and a half MORE of cape-shit?? Wth

I hope marvel/Disney and DC and every other comic company that tries to milk this genre, keeps losing money on super hero movies. Just let that genre die and move on. The horse is pulverized at this point, but you keep beating it.

Please just listen to Christopher Nolan and Stephen Spielberg they know what they're talking about I assure you, they made some pretty decent movies I hear

Shoulda erased it for tax purposes