Yeah it's taken long enough but maybe audiences are finally getting fatigued with the superhero craze.

The discourse surrounding this particular one likely didn't help either.

Superhero movies were always going to start failing when they started culture warring more than writing for success unfortunately. Didn't help they based this off Woman of Tomorrow which was designed to please the same culture warriors and change the character. Hollywood has killed the golden goose with its own obsessions. Same happened with Star Wars. Same happened with many franchises.

Wow totally unexpected!! Nobody thought this would flop the premise was soo good!

I didnt see it bc i dont really care about any superhero movie anymore.
But thats just me.

Thought the movie was good. The fighting sequences were done well, the effects, supergirl actress did a solid job, so was jason mamoa.
I think what hurt the sales was the marketing. I had no idea about this movie exisiting till around 4 days before it released. I saw or heard no advertising anywhere. Not in theatres, on tv, internet, subway/shopping malls anywhere..

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Above all I don't think anyone was asking for a Supergirl movie. I haven't seen any of the discourse but Supergirl is just one of DCs lessor popular characters. If this was Batman or a major marvel film I think we could extrapolate a bit more on audience fatigue. Let's see how Spiderman does

Even if the script had been good and the actress likeable, this was the wrong slot for this movie if they intended to build up to a new DCU. Not Supergirl right after Superman. Maybe far later as an ensemble character.

This is what I wrote a year ago:

I just watched the new Superman. It was OK, but felt more like what you'd expect from ca. 2010 superhero TV series than a grand opening of a new film universe. I certainly don't like it when superhero films try hard to be edgy and do something unlike anything that has ever been done with the character (in other words do something that is barely recognisable as bastardized version of a beloved franchise), but Superman goes very far to the opposite extreme. This is right at home with the 4+1 old Superman movies and right next door to Man of Steel/DCEU also.
A superhero movie being generic and unimaginative isn't the worst option, but it's far from best too.


I haven't seen Supergirl and no doubt won't for years, but mostly based on the trailer, I'd say they gone to far too different direction as these were supposed to start a new universe. You have to have a coherent style.
Sure, MCU started bit shakily due the Hulk rights mess, but I still feel they were better on the same page.

Woefully inexperienced writing team, oversaturated genre, unknown lead actress, and being part of a cinematic universe that never really took flight like the MCU. This had flop (poorly) written all over it. And the key takeaway from Hollywood will likely be that the audience are poopieheads that didn't go watch the movie, and this surely won't be the last time this happens.

I wonder if anyone higher up at any of the major studios has glanced at the market in general, seen all the indie titles ripping this shit up, and perhaps have some sort of impulse to perhaps investigate how this keeps happening? It's astonishing.  

Yeah it's extraordinary how much filmmakers these days seem to actively hate their audience. If a movie fails, it's somehow "the fan's fault", every time, couldn't possibly be that they didn't make a good product or that antagonising your audience isn't a good strategy.

Spiderman will make alot of money, even though it's going to be the same shit as always. And yeah ill be a sucker paying to see it, because my wife wants to, and the name spiderman just automatically makes you want to see it, just like breathing air comes naturally. Do i expect it to be better than super girl, probably not.

After so many years of superhero movies , its all just a repeat of the past now. How hard it is to be original and do something that hasn't been done . Whether story line or special effects or fight choreography .