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WhiskeyDisk posted...

Notably absent from the poll:

Supernatural...entanglements (Dr. Strange, Lucifer Morningstar, John Constantine, Moon Knight, Blade, Swamp Thing, Ghost Rider)

Kind of a wide category, though. Ghost Rider, Swamp Thing, etc, are very different from somebody like Lucifer.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

As for there being a NEED for serial films, that's not really an argument. In the era of TV and Internet, there isn't a need for films PERIOD. There's nothing about the medium itself that lends itself to storytelling in ANY fashion that can't easily be duplicated by other media just as effectively. But if someone feels the story they want to tell works better as a film than as a TV-movie, or a direct-to-DVD movie, or a "Netflix Original", or a Youtube Red production, or streamed over Twitch... then it's up to them to tell their story in whatever manner works best.

I will say that certain kinds of stories seem to work better in film. Plus films tend to have much larger budgets and can attract people who can't commit as much time to a tv show (well, barring shows like Luther which sometimes have 2 episodes per season). Granted, some tv shows work because they're basically made-for-tv films, such as some detective shows (Poirot, Sherlock, etc). A lot of that really also comes down to monetization where films seem to have a higher ROI.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

People didn't rip into TLJ because they were tired of Star Wars movies. They ripped into TLJ because it was terrible.

If that was the reason, they would have ripped harder into TFA.
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