SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS Star Zachary Levi Suggests Critics And Toxic Fans Are To Blame For Sequel's Failure

@bobevanz - ah shucks, he blocked me again lol maybe next time

@bobevanz -

Iger and Zaslav at this point...

@SonOfAGif - Boy this was a perfect summation of him. Bravo.

@jarcastanon - The audience score is the shield that him and Sandberg are going with. Quantamania also has a great audience score and even though I thought it was fine, it's clearly not going to be a classic because the audience score just isn't a legitimate or effective way to measure what audiences are in to.

@Superheromoviefan - Watch the movie, and you'll have all the evidence you'll ever need.

"Hollywood thinks they can just slap a comic book brand on a movie and cbm junkies will eat it up no matter what. The first movie at least adapted the Geoff Johns/Gary Frank stuff. This was just some rando trash with a 'DC' label slapped on." - @ObserverIO

Have you "seen" how people respond to Marvel Studios' output? There's a reason Hollywood thinks that. There's a reason Hollywood puts out 5 shows in one year all based in one universe. There's a reason Hollywood shits out all this content...after content...after content...after content. It's the consumer. The public. You all told Kevin Feige it was ok to release two, and then three, and then more, Marvel-relqted projects a year. What did you think they were gonna do after Avengers Endgame: calm down? Slow down? Slow down their production cycle? Slow down their rate of content released?

Stop acting like the innocent ones in this. Y'ALL did this. I saw 3 Marvel Studios movie's max since 2008 in theaters. Iron Man, Civil War, and Infinity Gaun...War. That's it. Three movies in the span of 11 years. But people had to see every last shitty movie they dropped. Y'all were busy floating them up to the sky, what did you expect them to do, drop? Wanna fall? No, they're gonna continue to want to stay up there.

Y'all told them to continue releasing slop. Y'all gave them the greenlight to increase production, increase product.

Hollywood thinks it because y'all gave them the greenlight. For what it's worth though, I absolutely agree with you considering your points in the second half of your post though, especially the Geoff Johns and Gary Frank bit, as well as Snyder's diseased touch/influence.

@videovac - To be fair, the MCU really only had a handful of shitty movies in Phases 1-3.

For me, Captain America The First Avenger, Thor 2, Guardians 2, and Iron Man 3 are really the only MCU films I thought were bad in those phases. The rest were good to great. 4 movies out 20. You're talking like almost everything the MCU has released has been garbage, and that simply isn't true. So you can't really blame the people that went and saw MCU movies in those phases, because they were putting out pretty solid content back to back throughout those phases.

Did it influence other studios to start making superhero movies? Of course it did. But none of them had the same unified and organized approach that the MCU had. Man of Steel was a great movie. Better than most MCU movies. But all the rest of the DC movies have been pretty bad. Wonder Woman was good. Shazam 1 was decent. But that's about it. And then you have crap like Bloodshot that barely even deserves a mention.

The MCU was successful because it was putting out good content that people enjoyed. Whether you agree with that or not doesn't matter. A lot of people were very obviously enjoying it. That can't even be debated. So to blame a studio for putting out a bunch of good content, or to blame the fans for enjoying that good content is a bit silly.

Did it lead to all this oversaturation? Yes, it did. But the bottom line is, if the MCU were still making good content, then they likely wouldn't be losing money right now.

And DC was never really making good content. Less than 50% of their movies have been good. So you're not wrong saying the fans and MCU are responsible for other studios to think they can just make a super hero movie and it will be successful. But it's not like they did anything wrong. MCU made good movies. Fans paid and watched good movies. That's how it works.

But DC never learned their lesson and just kept putting out unorganized schlock that no one could follow. It's a shared universe yet nothing felt shared. And the movies sucked on top of it. The MCU didn't cause that. They didn't cause other studios to make bad movies. They didn't cause DC to release a half-baked shared universe full of crap movies with horrible character representations. That's all DC.

@Vigor - I can help you with that.