Board 8 > 2013 vs. 2023 - Worse Year for Comic Book Movies?

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Guardians 3 and Across the Spider-verse make this not even close.

Actually these two years remind me of each other quite a bit. 2013 is like the lingering after-effects of The Avengers and Nolan's Batman movies, while 2023 is when people notice how comic book movies are just stale leftovers from the late 2010s.

xenosaga posted...

Guardians 3 and Across the Spider-verse make this not even close.

This, 2023 had more lows but also nothing in 2013 touches those two for quality

I can't be the only one who thinks the MCU isn't in quite as much trouble as people act. Then again I also think The Marvels would have merely flopped at worst if Disney was allowed to promote it properly - the fact the movie apparently topped Disney+ streaming charts the week of its premiere there convinces me even further people who weren't paying attention to new releases didn't know the stupid movie was out. And then the following weekend saw the release of a freaking Hunger Games movie - and even if the movie in question focused on a male character, the previous movies had still skewed primarily female and I would not be the least bit surprised if that ate significantly into the female demographic that made the first Captain Marvel a hit. And data showed that the first Captain Marvel's domestic viewing audience was just under half female, whereas for comic book movies it's typically a 60-40 male-female split (and for the first Wonder Woman, the domestic viewing audience was over half female fwiw).

The MCU's current woes also strike me as peanuts compared to a lot of poorly-received comic book movies of the past, and it feels as if the only people particularly enraged by them are anti-progressives averse to so-called wokeness. Even on that front though, 5 of the 10 MCU movies released to theaters this decade had white male leads, whereas only 1 of the 8 DCEU movies released to theaters this decade had a white male lead (note that Dwayne Johnson is half-black and half-Samoan and therefore is not white, while Ezra Miller is genderqueer). Yes I'll admit I'm still bitter at the anti-progressive crowd, stupid me checking Reddit and watching a video from a YouTube channel I got most of my movie news from between 2016 and 2019 that has fallen deep into the alt-right rabbit hole to the point they think Kevin Feige is the architect of the MCU's demise because he has been infecting it with his political activism starting with Captain Marvel, and was able to get the Marvel Creative Committee canned allegedly just for disagreeing with him.