'Madame Web' the Nadir of the Superhero Genre

Madame Web is a superhero movie about someone with precognitive powers: To the extent that you can actually understand what her powers are, it's that she can see the future and in some cases act to stop terrible events from happening. You can tell it's fiction because this movie exists. 

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Listless and incoherent throughout, Madame Web is a low-point for the superhero movie era, and I've seen Morbius. But not only does it demonstrate the genre's recent struggles, it points to a way out for Hollywood.  ...

For much of the last decade, people have wondered when the reign of superhero movies would be over, and how it might end. In the wake of last year's blockbuster failures, Madame Web shows the way out: At some point, the movies will simply be so bad that the genre can't continue. 

Ed Morrissey

We're not there yet, as Suderman acknowledges, because Marvel just announced that they will try for the third time to make a Fantastic Four movie that doesn't suck. The source material in F4 is too childish to work, but Marvel seems determined to waste more money on it, even after two disappointing efforts. 

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