Legacy Media Mourns ‘Supergirl’s Box Office Collapse
Misogyny! Superhero fatigue! Oh, and the movie is flat-out terrible, they admit
If you see a journalist wearing black today, chances are they cover entertainment.
The scribes are in collective mourning due to “Supergirl’s” terrible box office weekend. The same scribes don’t don black for any ol’ movie, though.
They reported on “Masters of the Universe” under-performing a few weeks back without the dark garments and teeth gnashing. The same held true for “The Breadwinner,” the Nate Bargatze vehicle that under-perforrmer mere weeks ago.
At first, journalists were trying to spin away the awful numbers – $38 million at U.S. theaters, and collectively less across the globe.
Now, it’s time to start the five stages of grief. For far-Left journalists, that typically stars with the fans.
AKA the bigots.
Yes, misogny is partly to blame for “Supergirl’s” terrible box office debut. Not the film’s anemic script, lackluster star, bland action set pieces or low-stakes adventure.
Not even the CGI dog – as big a flaw as any movie could muster – gets name checked today.
Just ask The New York Times, which immediately blasted fans for not rallying around a movie Variety dubbed, “Super horrendous.”
box office analysts on Sunday noted an uncomfortable truth: Female-led superhero movies have been rejected almost uniformly over the past five years or so, perhaps reflecting a resurgent misogyny among the core fan base, which is largely male.
The same Variety that excoriated “Supergirl” also blamed misogyny for the film’s poor showing.
While the culture war is a contributing factor in the poor performance of female-led superhero films, with hordes of online misogynists lashing out at them sight unseen, previous entries like “Wonder Woman” and “Captain Marvel” withstood similar backlash — who can forget the manly meltdown over women-only screenings of “Wonder Woman?” — to big box office returns, and the female-focused “Barbie” shattered records, grossing $1.4 billion worldwide.
Later in the SAME PARAGRAPH, the far-Left site admitted the problem.
That’s because those films were made with care and consideration, unlike “Supergirl…”
Oh.
Kudos to Forbes.com for a fair, sober analysis of the film’s failure.
There is absolutely zero way to spin the performance of Supergirl over the weekend, the film coming in below even not-great expectations. Supergirl made $38 million in its domestic opening weekend, less than a third of Superman and below all-time horrors like Morbius at $39 million.
Bottom line: Audiences, male and female, love great movies. They rallied for 2017’s “Wonder Woman” and the “Hunger Games” franchise. They ignored inferior films like “Birds of Prey,” “Madame Web” and “Wonder Woman 1984.”
It’s not complicated. Why are reporters trying to make it so?
Actually, we know why…
Supergirl was probably just not Woke enough…PFFFFFT!
One can’t be blamed if they start to think that James Gunn was lucky to be handed Guardians of the Galaxy, a once-in-a-lifetime source material. At the time, it surprised me that such a unique and COOL story concept, an odd offering from the Silver Age of Marvel Comics, actually survived the Hollywood ‘big shot’ vetting process and they agreed to do it. I give Gunn credit that he was VERY thrilled about doing it and thus, it materialized. Gratitude is due.
HOWEVER… outside the Guardians work, what has he done? From my perspective, make bad movies, step to Hollywood’s tune and placate the activists. Get back to the good stuff, James, and do it your way like you did with Guardians. And hurry, before Hollywood ruins you, too.
When you say CGI dog, are you talking about the pet or the lead actress?
A little sex appeal can go a long way. See: Wonder Woman.
Ouch!
I maintain that Wonder Woman is the best female-lead super hero movie we’ve seen so far (and it’s been almost ten years). For whatever reason, they keep running away from their best example of a female superhero movie in lieu of unwatchable characters (and actresses who simply can’t hold their peace concerning political garbage). Meh… it’s Hollywood. They’re kinda dumb.
Supergirl shouldn’t have been portrayed as a quippy, sour drunkard, not even a little. The actress should have been told in no uncertain terms to avoid antagonizing and insulting the male audience. It turned out to be a movie men don’t want to take their little daughters or granddaughters to see.
So many issues with this. Gunn made two great superhero movies (Guardians 1 & 2), then lost his mind. Warners hired him away from Disney to run their DC universe, and without any checks or balances, his woke mind virus took effect. Both him and his brother (who appears in every film), started blasting the MAGA crowd. He hired an inexperienced, failed actress to write the screenplay (because, you know, only a woman can write a female lead). He hires an unattractive, inexperienced lead actress, who then openly attacks Christian men and says the deserve it. He is hired because previous DC films were considered too dark and too serious, and then his second movie out is too dark and too serious. He has an entire catalog of characters to work with, yet his second film involves a secondary character that no one is interested in… and his third film is a sequel to the first one (another Superman movie). He has promised to quit and walk away if the Ellison’s take control of Warners, so who knows how long he is going to last. But hey, we are just misogynist because we don’t want to see this steaming pile of manure
Yup.. another Hollyweird masterpiece.
I wonder if the Hollyweirdo’s can guess what banned movie everyone is watching on X ?
What message is really resonating with citizens of the free world according to viewership and buzz.
I wonder….
Another epic Hollywood fail, for the reasons given below. In “The Great Feminization” a much-discussed October 2025 Compact magazine article, Helen Andrews argues that wokeness is best understood as “an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.” She goes on: “Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine; empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition.” And Ayn Rand takes another spin in her casket…