You obviously have some kind of weird hate-boner for James Gunn and yeah
I don't have a hate boner for him, I'm at best ambivalent to his actual work since I think I've seen 2, possibly 3 of his movies at most.
. I'm sorry that he didn't keep Cavil in the DCEU so you could keep getting Superman jerk off material
I mean other than thinking it was a bit of a dick move to announce he was being cut, right after he announced his return, I couldn't give a shit about it. Hell if anything I'm glad because that seemed to lead directly to his Amazon/WH40k announcement which to me personally is a much more interesting if it actually happens since, unlike the DCEU at large, I have some actual interest in 40k.
but look at the absolute abortion that the DCEU is and the man had to make a clear cut and not bring anyone over aside from maybe Margot Robbie
From what little I've seen of the DCEU I agree the best thing for all concerned is to kill it with fire. I have no problem with him wiping the slate clean in principle, I just think from what little I've seen of his work, and what IPs they're going with, that the next attempt at an Extended Universe is likely to be an even bigger failure than the first.
All the films you have listed (Black Widow, WW 84 and Birds of Prey) all. Fucking. Bombed. Shut. Your. Fucking. Mouth.
At no point did I say they weren't bombs in their own right. However since you insisted in your post that context matters, I figured I'd point out the relevant context that other films released under the same, or worse, circumstances still performed equally or better at the box office, almost like the pandemic or the simultaneous streaming release don't entirely explain away The Suicide Squad being a colossal bomb.
That being said we're kinda wandering way off topic, and I don't particularly wanna continue to derail the thread more with unrelated shitposting about Gunn, so if for some reason you want to continue it, feel free to DM me.
In an effort to get the thread somewhat back on track: I just came across a project called The Flash: Escape From the Midnight Circus, an Apple Podcast project coming out next month. The reason I think this could be relevant is because despite it being a brand new project, and despite Gunn seemingly saying in his DCEU announcement video that the same actors would be playing their characters across all media forms, it doesn't star Ezra Miller. Is this a tacit admission that Miller is done as The Flash? I mean it's not like Miller's too busy, or too big of a name, to do some voice acting work right now.