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Post by therealcomicman117 on Dec 22, 2023 18:41:29 GMT
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Dec 23, 2023 17:03:53 GMT
Honestly, better than the last two Christmas weekend threads, we've still had.
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Post by countjohn on Dec 23, 2023 17:31:53 GMT
"I'm going to kill Aquaman and all he holds dear. I'm going to murder his family (the DCEU)"
Prophetic words.
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Post by pupdurcs on Dec 23, 2023 17:36:49 GMT
The complete and sudden decline of the superhero genre has to be the biggest box office story of the year. The flops of The Marvels and Aquaman 2, sequels to billion dollar grossers, are wild. Not to mention things like Shazam: Fury Of The Gods and The Flash tanking. This must be what it felt like when the Western started to fall out of favor. |
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Post by countjohn on Dec 23, 2023 18:07:49 GMT
The complete and sudden decline of the superhero genre has to be the biggest box office story of the year. The flops of The Marvels and Aquaman 2, sequels to billion dollar grossers, are wild. Not to mention things like Shazam: Fury Of The Gods and The Flash tanking. This must be what it felt like when the Western started to fall out of favor. I think the better analogy might be those "sword and sandal" Roman and Biblical epics, which were generally the top grossing films of individual years throughout the 40's, 50's, and into the early 60's, before you suddenly had all these notorious bombs like Cleopatra and Fall of the Roman Empire. With a few exceptions like How the West Was Won westerns usually weren't blockbusters, it was just an inexpensive genre that was consistently profitable so they made them all the time. The decline was a lot more gradual than this and ebbed and flowed, they were starting to lose steam in the 50's but made a comeback with Bonanza and Gunsmoke on TV, the Spaghetti Westerns, John Wayne's comeback, and revisionist westerns like Butch Cassidy in the 60's and early 70's. |
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Dec 24, 2023 17:36:36 GMT
Christmas season gets a mixed blessing.
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