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2019 was a rocky year for superheroes — until 'Watchmen' raised the bar for the genre
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<blockquote data-quote="SummerMadness" data-source="post: 74516475" data-attributes="member: 142216"><p><em>Shazam!</em>, <em>Brightburn</em>, <em>Hellboy</em>, <em>Dark Phoenix</em>, <em>Glass</em>, all movies that didn't do well. Other like <em>Joker </em>and <em>Captain Marvel</em> made a lot of money, one was not as widely critically acclaimed, the other inspired an incel hate campaign (although they both made over $1 billion). You also have to factor in cancelled series like <em>Cloak & Dagger</em>, <em>The Gifted</em>, and <em>Krypton </em>(to name a few). It's been a rocky year with more misses than hits; you also have the recent controversy with some actors and directors attacking superhero films saying they are not cinema.</p><p></p><p>Watchmen managed to come on the scene and prevent something fresh, particularly capturing the serious and deconstructionist tone of the original graphic novel in the 1980s.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SummerMadness, post: 74516475, member: 142216"] [I]Shazam![/I], [I]Brightburn[/I], [I]Hellboy[/I], [I]Dark Phoenix[/I], [I]Glass[/I], all movies that didn't do well. Other like [I]Joker [/I]and [I]Captain Marvel[/I] made a lot of money, one was not as widely critically acclaimed, the other inspired an incel hate campaign (although they both made over $1 billion). You also have to factor in cancelled series like [I]Cloak & Dagger[/I], [I]The Gifted[/I], and [I]Krypton [/I](to name a few). It's been a rocky year with more misses than hits; you also have the recent controversy with some actors and directors attacking superhero films saying they are not cinema. Watchmen managed to come on the scene and prevent something fresh, particularly capturing the serious and deconstructionist tone of the original graphic novel in the 1980s. [/QUOTE]
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