I can’t believe in the era where WW was the heart of the cinematic universe, Aquaman was the first billion dollar movie, and Shazam was one of the highest critically rated DC movies that people are still trying to sell me some bull that no one besides Batman is sellable. How the hell do you still say that in an era where Snyder’s Batman dominated DCEU flopped?
When GL flopped did people decide that GL was a crap IP, instead of the GL movie just being a bad movie ruined by studio incompetence and misunderstanding of the character? Was that the Internet response? Because that sounds really stupid to me.
Edit: I just went to check out what Dark Phoenix's sales and reviews look like and holy hell looks like the X-Men are a dead franchise guys. After all Fox has had some very talented directors try to make a good X-Men film but after Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix I guess no one cares about the X-Men anymore. The IP is just too hard to adapt, it’s not the fault of the people making the movies at all. Must be why the MCU isn’t bothering to announce an X-Men movie.
Oh and the FF have had crap movies so I guess it’s impossible for Feige to make a good movie about them either. Oh and Daredevil, remember his awful Affleck movie? Guess Daredevil is a worthless character after all he doesn’t have as many classic stories as Batman. Oh and Captain Marvel man, she’s never even had a good comic book run, guess a good movie with her is impossible. Too bad Black Panther doesn’t have as many classic stories as Batman, maybe if he did his movie wouldn’t have flopped.
Over in the WW forums they tell me that apparently WW hasn’t had as many classic stories as Batman, someone better go cancel WW1984, everyone knows it’s impossible to make a good movie unless you’ve got as many classic storylines as Batman.
I could go on but I hope you get my point. The IPs are not the problem. A good director paired with a strong script is all it takes.