2 posts tagged ‘Superheroes’
'The Marvels' bombs with worst MCU opening yet
Boing Boing,
The age of superhero movies is over. 'The Marvels,' already perceived as the MCU's Hail Mary, failed to crack $48m on its opening weekend. With a $274.8m official budget (and much more spent on marketing), it is all but doomed to be the fall movie season's biggest bomb. — Read the rest
“The Marvels” and the Paradox of the Superhero Franchise
The New Yorker,
How did a genre rooted in weirdness and wonder become a byword for the normative, the familiar, and the mundane?