• i_had_name@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They give the guy who can’t help but physically assault people his own movie and copy the theme marvel has been using and wonder why it flops…

    • echoplex21@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      To be fair to DC , they were already wrapped filming when the crazy shit came out (iirc). At this point they should’ve just pulled a Batgirl with the movie.

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        1 year ago

        Ironically, the Batgirl movie would have likely made a profit, since it only cost 90 million and had Brandan Fraser right after he got his Oscar. But I guess the tax write-off was more important.

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        1 year ago

        When it came out, not when it happened. They most likely knew well ahead of the public, and still went ahead.

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            People mostly just like to bitch. It’s not even like superhero movies are the only thing being made. But they are pretty ubiquitous. I guess people just see so many cross-promoted super-hero movie trailer every time they go see a movie that they get fatigue from the idea of them. Not necessarily the movies themselves.

            I was listening to a recent Game Grumps episode where Arin basically went on a tirade about how superhero movies are so bland, and how they don’t build the characters and the world… but then turns around and praises some of the more recent movies (Black Panther and GotG I think). It seems people are tired of the hype surround them. Which, honestly, I completely understand.

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      1 year ago

      What theme did they copy from Marvel? If you’re talking about multiverse stuff, that’s been a concept in comics for ages and DC introduced it into comics first. Marvel bringing it to the movie screen first doesn’t give them ownership of the idea.

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          1 year ago

          I kinda agree. At the same time, multiverse crap is even more prevalent at DC than at Marvel.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah, but their Elseworlds stuff is way better than most of Marvels stuff of that nature.

            If DC really pushes that kind of thing for their new start, I can see them starting to dominate. I think standalone stories with interesting twists will draw in a larger audience, and they wouldn’t have near as much of that “superhero fatigue” that a lot of people complain about.

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        1 year ago

        Have they actually dropped him yet? I just heard he had charges and then all news just kind of disappeared.