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Excuses, Excuses: Elizabeth Banks Complains Feminist Movie Flop ‘Reinforces a Stereotype’
mrcNEWSBUSTERS ^ | Nov. 19, 2019 | Alexa Moutevelis Coombs

Posted on 11/19/2019 10:21:11 AM PST by Morgana

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To: Morgana

I am near positive that the flop wasn’t because this is the 4th plus reiteration of ‘Charlie’s Angels’ or the utter fact that the movie just plain sucked holy crap, nah, quite sure....../s


41 posted on 11/19/2019 11:00:19 AM PST by cranked
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To: Morgana
The suggestion that men won't watch "Charlie's Angels" because they're sexist is absurd. The original Charlie's Angels was a success on TV because so many men and teenage boys watched it. If men didn't want to watch this version, it was the movie and not the same men who loved other versions.


42 posted on 11/19/2019 11:00:37 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: cranked
I am near positive that the flop wasn’t because this is the 4th plus reiteration of ‘Charlie’s Angels’ or the utter fact that the movie just plain sucked holy crap, nah, quite sure....../s

The original TV Show sucked.

43 posted on 11/19/2019 11:00:53 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: headstamp 2

Hollywood simply refuses to accept that their politically correct BS does not sell. Ideology makes them completely tone deaf.


44 posted on 11/19/2019 11:03:05 AM PST by Bayan
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To: I want the USA back
I don't know its origin but this item is relevant:

Women find in the pain and struggle of childbirth what men seek in the thunder of battle.

The Aztec/Mexicas, who are not my favorite native Americans, did get this right. Women who died in childbirth were buried with the warriors who fell in battle.

45 posted on 11/19/2019 11:03:27 AM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: Morgana

“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.”

There’s something very wrong with a person who thinks this way.

There are more women than men on this planet; yes we’re aware “women are everywhere”. If you’re talking “strong female lead” in particular, yes I’m aware that my sensi’s sensi is a female who was so good at kicking male butt that she was asked to stop competing so others could have a chance at winning competitions.

No, you don’t get super powers by being “underestimated”. You have an opportunity to surprise us, yes, but Charlie’s Angels 2019 was a blown chance. Quit the misandry message and focus on the task at hand: kicking cinematic bad guys’ butts. Yes we’ll very much accept that (see prior annoying number of movie poster posts), so long as the character is BELIEVABLE in her tenacious assaults to the degree that it radiates thru the actress’ being a la Angelina Jolie, Uma Thurman, Anne Parillaud et al who both worked out hard to build their strength & skill, and exuded smart combat to overcome physically superior brutes.

It’s Banks who reinforces stereotypes, pushing the message “I’m tougher than you because I say I am - now buy my GD movie tickets already so I can show how great I am”.


46 posted on 11/19/2019 11:05:53 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Elizabeth needs to get out more. I mean out of the liberal echo-chamber.


47 posted on 11/19/2019 11:27:01 AM PST by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
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To: Morgana

President Warren should require everyone to watch this movie in order to get their universal income check. Sexists should not have an income.
/Leftbot


48 posted on 11/19/2019 11:37:15 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the worldÂ’s problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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To: Morgana

So, Joe asks his girlfriend Jane, “Hey, babe, wanna go catch a flick?”

Jane: What dya wanna see?

Joe: Oh, I was thinking of the Charlie’s Angels movie.

Jane: Nah. Nothing in it for me.

Joe: Okay, how about, “Isn’t it Romantic”, then?

Jane: Yeah. I’d like that.


49 posted on 11/19/2019 11:42:58 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Morgana

I saw it. It was fun.

But almost all the men were bad guys. And all the women were good guys.

And Kristen Stewart looked a heck of a lot better with the wig than the short hair.


50 posted on 11/19/2019 11:46:05 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: HotHunt
Elizabeth Banks is a very hot woman to look at but with this flop, so goes her career.

It appears that she hired a cast that was not nearly as "hot" as her.

51 posted on 11/19/2019 11:48:08 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: Bayan

Hollywood movies that preach are not going to sell no matter what.


52 posted on 11/19/2019 11:49:33 AM PST by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: Morgana

***“I think women are allowed to have one or two action franchises every 17 years...”***

Sounds like the type of movies shown at the “ART House” movie theaters forty - sixty years ago.


53 posted on 11/19/2019 11:52:25 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: dfwgator

***The original TV Show sucked. ***

They even used scripts from the older MOD SQUAD series. Just changed the main character’s names.


54 posted on 11/19/2019 11:54:53 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: kosciusko51
".... It appears that she hired a cast that was not nearly as "hot" as her...."

Big mistake because she is a hottie herself.

55 posted on 11/19/2019 12:02:57 PM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: bella1

“I believe that Chick-Fil-A is about to find that out as well.”

That might happen.


56 posted on 11/19/2019 12:03:13 PM PST by Grampa Dave (If we have a civil war, the winners will be our enemies: Iran, China, Mexico, & Deep State thugs!)
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To: jmcenanly

And the 10 billion dollar porn business would beg to differ with her opinion that people don’t like seeing movies with pretty women in them.


57 posted on 11/19/2019 12:04:49 PM PST by skinndogNN
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To: jmcenanly

And the 10 billion dollar porn business would beg to differ with her opinion that people don’t like seeing movies with pretty women in them.


58 posted on 11/19/2019 12:06:54 PM PST by skinndogNN
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To: Tallguy; fieldmarshaldj

Maybe she can direct the next James Bond movie, assuming of course that there will be one.


59 posted on 11/19/2019 12:06:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: HotHunt

Based on her casting, it appears that she didn’t want anyone more attractive than herself in the movie.


60 posted on 11/19/2019 12:07:24 PM PST by kosciusko51
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