Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[Polident]

Like with women, despite the success of both Wonder Women and Captain Marvel, when 1984 and Marvels came out as failures, suddenly the same old rhetoric of "women don't sell" appear from execs, press and fans (please ignore all the examples that prove otherwise, seriously why does Wakanda Forever get completely ignored!?); with the previous films dismissed as "anomalies", "only successful because of the hype for Endgame/Justice League" etc: hell we saw this rather openlly with Sony after Madame Web.

What execs and press said this? What executive would say this? They aren't stupid, they know The Hunger Games made over $3 billion with a woman lead. Supergirl is one of the first new DC movies in the slate and The Authority has two women and two gay men as leads. Sony didn't single out women, they pulled the plug on the entire "Spider-Man Universe" after two of the failed films were headlined by men.

Seriously nobody said this. And you're clearly only talking narrowly about superhero films which is beyond stupid. The problem with women-led superhero films is that there aren't many headlining women characters. Diana will clearly be back, they just want some distance with the reboot, Supergirl is going to fill that role initially. Aquaman is getting the same treatment, it'll probably be a while before we see Flash again too. Marvel doesn't have anybody on the scale of Diana or Supergirl or Batgirl. There's fan favorites but there isn't anybody you can name that normies are going to know like those three.

Also not a single person said Wonder Woman was successful due to hype for Justice League for which there wasn't any. But fucking come on, Marvel stuck Captain Marvel right in the middle of their two-parter, you really think fucking Carol Danvers was a $1 billion character.

All this comic book malarkey aside… two years ago the Barbie movie made $1.45 Billion. About on par with the first two Avengers movies and considerably more than other comic book movies. Last year Inside Out 2 made $1.7 Billion. Moana 2 made $1 Billion. Wicked made $730 Million.

Looking at movies this year. Jurassic Park 8 or whatever has Scarlett Johansson as the lead. Marvel Suicide Squad has that lady from Liam Neeson’s The Commuter as the lead. There’s a lady John Wick spin off. There’s a Lilo and Stitch movie with real actors. There’s Snow White. I’m done reading upcoming releases because it’s grim. Lotta junk.

Larger point is, any of the doom and gloom over this stuff is just that. Or it’s hyper focused on marvel fanboy shit instead of the wider landscape of popcorn entertainment.