Posted on 11/19/2019 10:21:11 AM PST by Morgana
Radical pro-abortion activist Elizabeth Banks’ Charlie’s Angels reboot was a huge flop over the weekend with the $50 million movie coming in third at the box office and only bringing in a little over $8 million. The reason for the film’s disastrous opening, according to Banks? Sexism.
Before her abysmal weekend, according to IndieWire, Banks told the Herald Sun (paywall) about the importance of the film’s financial success to feminism: “Look, people have to buy tickets to this movie, too. This movie has to make money,” she said. “If this movie doesn’t make money it reinforces a stereotype in Hollywood that men don’t go see women do action movies.”
She attributed the success of Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel to them being comic book movies in “a male genre.” She went on, “So even though those are movies about women, they put them in the context of feeding the larger comic book world, so it’s all about, yes, you’re watching a Wonder Woman movie but we’re setting up three other characters or we’re setting up ‘Justice League.’”
“By the way, I’m happy for those characters to have box office success,” she clarified, “but we need more women’s voices supported with money because that’s the power. The power is in the money.”
Banks continued her rant about comic book films and women in an interview with the Wall Street Journal (paywall), also ahead of Charlie’s Angels’ crash and burn:
“You’ve had 37 Spider-Man movies and you’re not complaining!” Banks said. “I think women are allowed to have one or two action franchises every 17 years — I feel totally fine with that.”
Banks added she was interested in launching a big franchise driven by women characters because that’s often not the case in Hollywood. “Being in a big franchise allows you to have it all,” she said. “I recognize the same thing, it’s almost unfair for women. The best roles are usually in small movies, but then you don’t make any money. It’s okay to want to make money.”
On Monday, Banks admitted the movie she directed, produced, wrote, and starred in was a flop but insisted she's still "proud of #CharliesAngels and happy it’s in the world."
Maybe the film was box office Kryptonite because it stars pansexual weirdo Kristen Stewart and two relatively unknown actresses instead of Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu who were at the top of their game in the early 2000s when their Charlie’s Angels reboot movies came out.
Perhaps the movie failed because it was so overtly pushed as a feminist flick. Previously, Banks, who calls herself a feminist, talked about how she wanted to “bring the themes of sorority and sisterhood and camaraderie and women working together as a team into an action movie.” That doesn’t exactly scream, “Box office gold!”
She said, “I wanted it to be a celebration of women. I wanted it to remind people that women are everywhere, that you can’t ignore us and that when you underestimate us, you give us a superpower.” Who wants to pay for the privilege of receiving that lecture?
Whatever the reason, one thing is for sure, Banks won't be getting her big feminist Charlie's Angels franchise.
There’s a host of strong-female-lead movies that made a bundle - the first Charlie’s Angels movie included (think I saw that opening day back then).
Strange that she completely dismisses them just because those women don’t fit her exact SJW requirements (whatever they are).
Many women are brave and can save other mortals, but throughout human history it has been predominantly males who have done the fighting and dying. The woman carries the child and nurtures it. This takes years of her life. The man then realizes he needs to go out and provide for the wife and kids, and he goes out and hunts and fights the enemy, or in the modern world goes out into the business world where he must fight sexism and prejudice.
So, I prefer to see a movie that resembles the real world.
To me, the “re-do”, is another example of “rewrite an original no-brains involved” exercise, with square wheels.
“I think women are allowed to have one or two action franchises every 17 years — I feel totally fine with that.”
“Allowed” Really? Making a movie is a financial venture. If you don’t make a successful movie you won’t be allowed to make a second.
I have a question for FReeper women: Do you want to see movies where buffed up women kick guys’ butts? I don’t think many men do...
Not what I could find really. There were disputes over royalties with her ex-husband co-writer and also her being known for that one song vs. a whole slew of songs she had.
However it appears she’s suffering from dementia now and has been placed in a senior care facility as of 2017.
“Woke Feminism” is straight up misandry. It’s not about equality, it’s about punishing and demeaning men, and demoting them to a lower class of humanity. It’s about portraying men as weak, stupid, evil, and responsible for everything wrong in the world. It’s easy to do in our schools and in the media, where there is no “market”. But theater is pure capitalism, and people are not willing to pay for this misandrous, gynocentric garbage.
How many godzilla movies are out there? and they just keep on coming.
It seems to me that that is only partly true. For example; I myself quite like the reboots of Hawaii 50 and Magnum, PI. I think the real reason for these reboots flops is the insane PC that is shoved into everyone of them. JMO
Down the drain.
Hey Elizabeth, a few minutes of reflections would go a long way to discover why your movie bombed.
Not having seen it but reading your comments I would say you went into the making of this movie to deliver a message. You seem to forget that the business of movie making is to entertain, not educate.
You can have a entertaining movie that educate but the entertainment must come first.
The only stereotype being reinforced here is that people shy away from crappy movies, no matter how “hot” the stars may be.
Saw almost no publicity for this film, the previews were scarce, and if someone hadn’t suggested going, I probably wouldn’t have known it was in (and soon to be gone from) theaters right now.
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