So the movie is actually just Girl.

It’s why so many of the DC stuff is so boring. These are superpowers that have minimum viable characters wrapped around them. The only interesting thing that can happen to them is changing their powers.

I watched this movie, and they really tried to make it interesting. She starts as a total screwup and arcs towards greatness. But none of the motivation makes any sense and so most of her decisions come down to “if she didn’t do this the plot wouldn’t move forward.” Frankly, that’s how almost every superhero movie feels now.

I think the problem with this movie is that a) it wasn’t for kids and b) it wasn’t for manchildren who wear clothes with Batman logos on them. Not a lot of market left after that.

It also attempted to have the James Gunn charm but you can tell the director whiffed it hard. Everything that should've felt impactful and emotional was delivered cold and stale. The funny moments were mistimed. Just absolute piss poor directing imo.

I think it's a mix of reasons, the biggest one obviously being the movie is mediocre. But I think the other big reason is that Supergirl just isn't a franchise most people care about. People would flock to the cinema for Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, maybe even Aquaman because he's better known. But a story about Superman's sister running around in space? Ehhhh...

I had a free ticket to see a movie last weekend and I used it to watch the Hadestown musical cause literally everything else was a waste of time. It still cost me $25 for concessions BTW.

Side note, I had already seen Supergirl and The Odyssey back when they came out.

Myself and my wife go to the theater about once a month, sometimes twice depending on the release schedule to see all the new horror movies and things like The Odyssey and Disclosure Day and the theaters both opening weekend and later are mostly full every single time. I live in a small college town not even a big city. Sure numbers are down but it's not a ghost town people seem to think.

Im more surprised to hear theaters are even open during Covid times

So its a DC/Marvel film.

It's definitely dull and uninspired, which is a shame because I love the Tom King run it's based on. I liked Milly Alcock as Kara, she nails that disaffected youth feel from the book, but the dialogue, camerawork, and action scenes just don't land.

I turned it off halfway through and maybe I'll pick it up later. It's head and shoulders better than the Snyderverse stuff, but at least had the decency to be bad enough to make me angry about it. This is just meh.

Odyssey is doing great in theaters though....

I bought a projector for what it would've cost for me to take myself and my kids to the movies 3 times. It's actually really nice to enjoy the classics outdoors/indoors, wherever.

We have watched so many movies we've upgraded to a better speaker, and got a mini popcorn machine.

Beyond worth it.

I will likely bever step into a theatre again

Yup. I see about a movie in theaters a year. Would have gone to see this one if I didn’t need to eat food to live.

On top of it costing too much, it's usually full of assholes on their phones, it stops me bringing my own snacks/costs way to much to buy them there, cannot pause for bathroom breaks and I usually pay for parking.

But the biggest reason... I cannot smoke cones at the theatre, fuck that.

The youtuber?

It isn't

It goes by ticket sales