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.
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.
Hollywood simply refuses to accept that their politically correct BS does not sell. Ideology makes them completely tone deaf.
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.
“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”.
Elizabeth needs to get out more. I mean out of the liberal echo-chamber.
President Warren should require everyone to watch this movie in order to get their universal income check. Sexists should not have an income.
/Leftbot
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.
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.
It appears that she hired a cast that was not nearly as "hot" as her.
Hollywood movies that preach are not going to sell no matter what.
***“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.
***The original TV Show sucked. ***
They even used scripts from the older MOD SQUAD series. Just changed the main character’s names.
Big mistake because she is a hottie herself.
“I believe that Chick-Fil-A is about to find that out as well.”
That might happen.
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.
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.
Maybe she can direct the next James Bond movie, assuming of course that there will be one.
Based on her casting, it appears that she didn’t want anyone more attractive than herself in the movie.
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