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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

The oroginal Charlies Angels from decades ago was pretty successful


61 posted on 11/19/2019 12:08:28 PM PST by jersey117
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To: jersey117

It’s on MeTV weekdays at 5.


62 posted on 11/19/2019 12:11:51 PM PST by Fair Paul
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To: Morgana

“I think women are allowed to have one or two action franchises every 17 years — I feel totally fine with that.”

You go right ahead, Sweetheart. Just don’t get all upset when I don’t pay to go and see that woke garbage.


63 posted on 11/19/2019 12:20:20 PM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: kosciusko51

Big mistake = big flop.


64 posted on 11/19/2019 12:23:44 PM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: Morgana

I didn’t even know there was another Charlie’s Angels movie out there.

I hate Banks’ politics, but I did like her in the movie, “Love And Mercy”.


65 posted on 11/19/2019 12:25:24 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("I've read the back of The Book, and we win.")
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To: headstamp 2

“I wanted [the movie] to remind people that women are everywhere, that you can’t ignore us...”

Yes, women are everywhere; men are, too. So what? I’m a woman and I don’t happen to feel that any men need to be “reminded” that there are women around. People go to the movies to be entertained or to escape reality. If you just want to ‘remind” moviegoers that there are various types of people in the world, you could film two hours of people walking along the sidewalks of any major city in the USA. Soon, people watching that movie would be “reminded” that women are everywhere...as are men...and fat people, skinny people, old people, children...white people, black people.

If you expect someone to drive to a movie theater and pay $15, you’re going to have to do more than “remind” them there are women out there. You’re going to have to show them attractive women, women significantly more attractive than 99% of the women who are “everywhere”.


66 posted on 11/19/2019 12:27:48 PM PST by utahagen (but but)
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To: Morgana

Wasn’t it Sam Goldwyn who said “If you want to send a message, go to Western Union”?


67 posted on 11/19/2019 12:37:30 PM PST by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: Morgana

This reminds me of the rollout for the WNBA. It was supposed to be the next big thing, but there was no audience for it, save for mannish lesbians (who also made up the team rosters).


68 posted on 11/19/2019 12:40:43 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: Morgana

In the movie, do women beat up men? Maybe sane women and men do not want to see such foolishness.


69 posted on 11/19/2019 1:01:23 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (God Bless America. Thank you, Kate Smith!)
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To: Fair Paul

That’s all I watch these days, a lot of ME, INSP, WGN.... anything but Fox. Anything to take me back to the good old days. LOL


70 posted on 11/19/2019 1:03:29 PM PST by jersey117
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To: Morgana
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.”

Terminator 2 - Linda Hamilton
Indiana Jones - Karen Allen
Star Wars - Carrie Fisher
Aliens - Sigouney Weaver

I've provided enough examples that allow me to correct her statement:

"...men don’t go see women do crappy action movies that are remakes of old TV shows."

and

"...women don’t go see women do crappy action movies that are remakes of old TV shows."<

71 posted on 11/19/2019 1:03:46 PM PST by kidd
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To: sima_yi
Thanks, this will be used like a crowd control baton when Follywood/NYC whiners about another Woke failure.

You know, "if you want to send a message, go to Western Union!”

72 posted on 11/19/2019 1:05:18 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: kidd
Princess Vespa - Spaceballs....






73 posted on 11/19/2019 1:07:44 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
…You seem to forget that the business of movie making is to entertain…

That is the lesson ALL of Hollywood seems to have forgotten. No wonder they are following network TV down the drain to oblivion.

74 posted on 11/19/2019 1:12:41 PM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: SunkenCiv

Well, it will either go two ways. As we expect, it should bomb big time. They’ll either double-down on stupid and give FemiNazi 007 a second film or will quickly recast with a male for the next installment.


75 posted on 11/19/2019 1:23:31 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Her best role was as the drunken slut in “The 40-Year Old Virgin.”


76 posted on 11/19/2019 1:24:39 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: dfwgator

See. Just need the proper motivation. (So much for Stalinist Sally Field proclaiming women wouldn’t start wars if they held office. Yeah, right. If Prime Minister Merkel insulted Sally’s choice of footwear, Sally would carpetbomb Berlin before midnight).


77 posted on 11/19/2019 1:27:18 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: Morgana
"You MUST buy tickets! You MUST!"

The North Korean approach to marketing can only produce the cued applause of a party conference.

78 posted on 11/19/2019 1:53:03 PM PST by Marcus Licinius Crassus (“O Judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason.” -Shakespeare)
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To: Marcus Licinius Crassus

Or they’ll do like Stalin, to ring a bell to tell everyone they can stop clapping (but still take note of who stopped clapping first)


79 posted on 11/19/2019 1:54:27 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: headstamp 2

They need ladies that look like the ladies in the 1970’s
Women were better looking back then : )


80 posted on 11/19/2019 2:09:24 PM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....)
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