Why the Fall of Comic-Book Movie Culture Is Inevitable
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variety.comOwen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Comic-book movie culture didn’t just stumble this year. It face-planted, giving us one movie after another that fans didn’t much care about and that the corporations backing these films took a disquieting loss on.
And that’s not how it was supposed to go. According to the Gospel of 21st-Century Hollywood, the words “comic-book film” and “box-office disappointment” are not supposed to appear in the same sentence.
When they do, not just once but over and over and over again, the tea leaves are telling us something ominous and maybe definitive.
Why, in 2023, did this happen? The analysis that has mostly been offered is simple: The movie companies served up mediocre superhero product.
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