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The Flash Spoiler Discussion, The Movie's Awful Box Office Performance, and More

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The Rise of the Superhero Industrial Complex

The Flash performing so poorly and it's opening weekend is actually more evidence of that like audiences may be getting to the point where the superhero movie is no longer the dominant mainstream form of American blockbuster entertainment. Super movies are not gonna go away I think this is the big thing that I think people misunderstand this conversation sometimes which is super movies aren't gonna vanish overnight. There'll be a return to focus on better movies instead of more movies better shows instead of more shows but I do think that is Spider-Verse 2 a hit because it's a Spider-Man movie and an STP movie? I'm not so sure, Jacob.

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