Why The MARVELS Bombed At The Box Office

theres no such thing as comic book fatigue. theres "shit movie" fatigue.

the problem the entire interconnected structure is breaking.

for example, Captain Marvel only did so well because of how well the other marvel movies around it did. people wanted to go see how it connects into the MCU. that interconnectedness raised all MCU ships and created hype and reason to go.

Like we really need articles from journalists to explain why this move failed.

It's the wrong question. The real question is "Why did Captain Marvel not bomb?"

This is just what happens when you make a movie that no one wants to see, as a sequel to movies that were bad.

There is no longer an interconnected narrative that we are interested in. Is there even an inerconnected narrative? Multiverse is not a narrative. And more importantly, there are no characters that we care about.

I just don't feel like sitting through a two-hour CGI visual effects demonstration.

Hehehehe, most of us Marvel fans saw this dumpster fire coming an entire year before it came out. We were just waiting with our popcorn for the flames to go up. It's honestly more entertaining to watch Disney Marvel, a company that hates us, suffer financially and reputation-wise than to watch their movies. It's no less than they deserve for crapping on their own customers after 7 years of woke shit.

I know you are not asking, but the real answer is:

GW, GB.

Enough said.

Anti-woke fan boys told for years that this will flop but I guess no one really believed it. Since they hated first one too and then it made 400 millions

So studios and media probably thought that it will made less but still 270 millions would do. But it flopped so spectacular.

If it came 2 years ago it would probably flopped a little less. But people are tired of superheroes. There is too much of them. Countless tv shows, countless new characters. It lost its novelty. People went to Guardians 3 simply because they still loved characters and it was finishing its story.

Captain Marvel has no story to finish. She is boring non-personality that has no friends, no enemies, no traumatic past and something to hold on too. So you can easily skip it. And then trailer showed absolutely CW level of plot. So nobody cared.

What is more mystery - who went in it first time to give it 400 millions. When it should have had Ant-Man numbers of some 170 millions.

Still if they would put actual brains into script and make some coherent story and gave her at least male villain and cast famous actor for it - it would make more money. There is absolutely no one famous in this movie for people to see.
At least first one had Jude Low.

Not to mention absolutely idiotic title of "The Marvels" which is just confusing. When its Captain Marvel 2. But for some reason has completely different title. Random people dont know what it is.

Like imagine conversation:
- Hey dude, I'm going to Marvels, Will you come with me?
- Hm. What is it? I never heard of it. Like Eternals? Or about Marvel company?
- Well its kind of Captain Marvel 2 but called Marvels
- Why?
- Well... there are other Marvels there I guess?
- What Marvels? Captains?
- No.... just some people with superpowers, I guess. I dont know dude. There was like tv show about girl to explain.
- So I must watch tv show at first?
- I guess.
- Pass.

Superhero movie burnout is definitely a thing that's being felt by audiences.

Also, people don't go out to the movies as much anymore.

The average viewer is thinking, Why would I go to the movies with my kids/family/friends & spend up to or even more than 100 dollars when I can just stream it in literally 45 days.

The "Event movies" like Avatar, Barbie & Oppenheimer are still gonna pull in audiences but apart from that, streaming is gonna pull people away from going to the cinema.

Ignoring all the posters who can't think of anything interesting to say other than belting out the word "woke" incessantly. My impression (without reading the article that you've posted) on why Marvel films are on a downward spiral boils down to the fact that the many years build-up and resolution of all the Marvel films through Avengers Endgame has left a void without anything compelling to take its place. It's that simple.

There may be a "burnout" with superhero films but that ties in with what I mention above.

This holds true for DC as well I suppose. Though they haven't had a mega hit like the two Avengers films.

If you put out a good Spiderman or Batman film they will come. For the rest of the superhero's I just don't know if there is any real interest there.

Losing Chris Evans and particularly Robert Downy Jr. certainly didn't help either.