Will DC ever find their footing on film or is it just cursed
>>156268467They found their footing for years: some movies succeed, others don't. The best they can do is move more movies from Column B to Column A.What they have been wanting to do all these years is do what the MCU did and have a perpetual motion machine where every movie makes money and the hits get bigger every time. Even the MCU hasn't been able to do that in the 20s.Gunn's plan only worked if they didn't have any flops, which is impossible.
>>156269087>Even the MCU hasn't been able to do that in the 20sdidnt BND make 2 billion
>>156269170>perpetual machine where every movie makes money and the hits get bigger every timeBND is the only true hit they've had in the 20s, every other movie did ok. And that's without considering Spider-Man is the most popular character in the planetPost-covid is a completely different beast for capeshit movies, they can't build up on top of each success because most of their movies aren't bigger and bigger successes, you get?
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>>156269213>NWH>MoM>GotG 3>D&WI don't even like half of those but they were all commerciala successes
>>156269348I'm not saying they weren't, but they also weren't the big hits pre-covid would've made them
>>156269416Pre-COVID every Marvel movie was a hit, it was just a question of how big or small of a hit.The famous comparison is that the first Captain Marvel movie made a billion dollars despite nobody thinking it was good, and the second movie was their first out-and-out bomb. Things change fast and now every movie has to succeed or fail based on how much enthusiasm there is for the characters, which is why they're largely downsizing to a few supposedly sure-fire franchises.
>>156269087the only movie to hit those highs in years has been Spider-Man and that's because it's fucking Spider-ManGunn doing a bunch of experimental shit like a Clayface horror movie or a detective GL show or pushing Supergirl before locking in the trinity sounds neat on paper and can lead to some stuff getting made that probably never would have otherwise but it's also not what suits want, they want their billion dollar Batman and Wonder Woman and then Justice League teamup and they want those out the door yearly, they have zero patience for a DCU spinning its wheels with a bunch of non-A listers like having a Jimmy Olsen and Grodd show
>>156269699Yeah boo, that was my point
>>156269699the first Captain Marvel movie was between Infinity War and Endgame and came out literally a month before the latter, it got to coast hard on being required reading pre-Avengers and it's insane people still think its success had anything to do with its actual quality
>>156268467The world is turning into cyberpunk 2077, companies are getting more inept and unfriendly with no end in sight despite ostensible improvements in technology
>>156269741>a detective GL showOk but really this could have been so good all they had to do was just not set it on Earth or have a few scenes of them interrogating aliens on other planets but nooooooooo
