They released it in a heatwave against Toy Story during the World Cup.
Almost as if they want women focused stories to fail.
Unfortunately the only lesson will be “Woman superhero no make money.”
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… 😌💀🩸🩹
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.
I think next up is westerns again or zombie movies again, it’s all on a big carousel
Fallout is Western AND Zombies. So, yeah, that tracks.
And it’s based on a video game, which seems to be the current trend.
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.
If you like body horror The Substance was pretty good. Oh and Scavenger’s Reign reminded me a little of Fantastic Planet (La Planète sauvage).
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.
I’m up for Firefly again and open to more space westerns.
Well they ARE doing Firefly again, but in animation form
Here I was holding out for pog form
At least pogs are physical media
The track record for “reborn as animation” is much more promising.
Ugh.
I think it’s space movies next, with all the SpaceX buzz.
Brace yourselves, here comes The Discourse…
It’s not a loss. It’s a tax writeoff.
Yeah it was number 2 at the box office. The only reason that’s a failure is if they set expectations wrong. Sounds like they wanted it to fail.
Maybe don’t spend over $100M on a movie?
wasn’t like the number two movie last week?
I stopped watching MCU like 10 years ago; DC is whatever too. It’s just formulated crap. What happened to art?
It still exists
DC tends to be stronger on the TV side, like with Peacemaker, Young Justice, or (so I hear) My Adventures with Superman.
I didn’t see the supergirl movie because I knew she couldn’t possibly live up to DCAU supergirl.
…It’s still relative though. There’s a lot of DC TV junk (or junk food).
I don’t know about art, but James Gunn has a knack for entertaining movies.
Stop making infeasible movies?
That we want MORE superheroes, obviously
Have they tried putting several superheroes into one movie? Maybe do a crossover! LEGO?
Across the Spiderverse did all three
I’m actually OK with the Lego movies. My kids love them, and I find them quite entertaining.
Imo it helps that the Lego movies are pretty self-aware. Like they know they’re Lego people and their entire existence is made up of Lego bricks that can be rebuilt and rearranged to make crazy cool stuff.
They could just do Lego and Muppet movie versions and they’d print money and people would love 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
Spielberg’s latest is a massive pile of shite
I didn’t see it, I just read several articles where I’ve heard him speak about the importance of imagination and wonder and I fully agree with all of it and putting the same schlock out year after fucking year is not imagination or wonder
I didn’t either but the Pitch Meeting on it was pretty good.
Seeing pitch meeting plugs in the wild is tight!
This sums up my thoughts pretty accurately
I saw Disclosure Day.
I thought it was awful.
I freaking love complex, weird sci fi. I’m usually pretty optimistic about critically mixed movies, or “simple” ones like the He Man movie. He Man was fun!
But DD was so unoriginal and… boring. It was actively unfun, implausible on many levels yet taking itself so seriously. I could feel the writers’ massive egos from my seat; imagination and wonder have nothing to do with it.
I literally could not believe it got generally positive reviews.
that’s unfortunate, can’t win em all I guess. The general principle still stands though, I mean he made a bad movie, he still has a good viewpoint on movie making and what makes a good movie
I thought it was pretty good.
Disclosure Day Spoilers Below
Why, ok, why… right, just one question, why… I really can’t work out… WHY. IF YOU HAVE A FUCKING. LIVE. ALIEN. WHY. DO YOU NEED ALL THE FUCKING VIDEOS?
WHAT WAS THE POINT OF ALL THE RUNNING AROUND? WHY? YOU HAVE A LIVE FUCKING ALIEN!!! JUST PUT THAT ON TELLY?!
Sorry. It was so mind numbingly dumb from start to finish.
more spoilers
The reveal wasn’t just that aliens existed, it was also meant to show the government’s abuse and mistreatment of the aliens.
And you may not necessarily want to livestream your only living specimen from an easily identifiable location while the entirely of the human race is processing the reveal. Religious extremists might not feel the same way about alien life as our sweet old nun did.
yet more spoilers
Eeeh, I mean, the main mission was definitely proving the existence of alien life.
Would you really ask these people to put their lives on the line just to prove that there was torture too? If they failed and Wardex took back all the footage they could still just roll ET out and get it to testify about the torture.
Shoulda erased it for tax purposes
