There's No Way The Batgirl Movie Was That Bad, Right?

thegamer.com:

It’s not everyday a $90 million movie gets shelved, but this might be one of those days. According to several sources, Warner Bros. has decided to shelve the nearly-complete Batgirl movie starring Leslie Grace, Michael Keaton, and Brendan Fraser, even after multiple reshoots, because apparently it’s so bad that it risks damaging the DC brand. I have some doubts about this story, and I suspect there’s a lot more going on here than just a bad movie.

First of all, we all saw Wonder Woman 1984 right? Look, don’t get in my mentions defending the DCEU, and I promise I won’t go after the Snyderverse (much), but can we all acknowledge that Warner Bros. has been putting out terrible movies for the better part of a decade? How much damage can Batgirl possibly do to the brand when we’ve all seen Suicide Squad? Even the good ones, like Shazam and Birds of Prey, are barely passable. Something tells me Black Adam isn’t exactly going to set a high bar for superhero movies either. If it really is that bad, it sounds like something we all need to see.

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Warner Bros.' reported reasons for shelving the film don’t really make sense. The first outlet to report it was the right-wing site New York Post, which claimed test screenings for the film went so poorly that the studio has opted to cut its losses. Other outlets, like Variety, are reporting that it had nothing to do with quality, but rather the studio’s desire to only release “blockbuster scale” movies. Batgirl was budgeted for streaming, not the theater, and the new regime at WB only wants the world to see the biggest and best DC movies moving forward.

But this rationale barely