‘Charlie’s Angels’, a reboot of the old 70’s TV show and the early 2000’s movies, that stars Kristen Stewart of Twilight fame, along with relative unknowns Naomi Scott and Ella Balinski, hit theaters last weekend with blockbuster ambitions and a defiant “girl power” message. Not surprisingly, the film opened with a resounding thud and fell decidedly flat with audiences as evidenced by its paltry $8.6 million box office.
Elizabeth Banks, who wrote and directed the movie, unabashedly declared it to be a feminist enterprise filled with “sneaky feminist ideas.”
Banks says of Charlie’s Angels,
“One of the statements this movie makes is that you should probably believe women.”
The films star, Kristen Stewart, said of the movie,“It’s kind of like a ‘woke’ version.”
Charlie’s Angels’ failure is just the most recent evidence that woke feminist films are box office poison. The film’s financial floundering comes on the heels of the cataclysmic, franchise-destroying performance of another big budget piece of pro-feminist propaganda, ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’, which sank at the box office like an Austrian-accented cybernetic android into a vat of molten steel. Hasta la vista, woke baby.
There have been a plethora of like-minded girl power movies released in 2019 that have produced similarly dismal results at the box office.
One issue with many of these ill-fated woke films is that, like previous feminist flops Ghostbusters(2016) and Ocean’s 8, they are little more than remakes of male movies with females swapped in. These derivative films are the product of a craven corporatism entirely devoid of any originality or creative thought.
For example, the social justice geniuses in Hollywood decided this year it would be a good idea to remake two movies that no one wanted remade, Mel Gibson’s What Women Want (2000) and Steve Martin and Michael Caine’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1998), except this time with female leads. To the shock of no one with half a brain in their head, What Men Want with Taraji P. Henson, and The Hustle, with Rebel Wilson And Ann Hathaway, resoundingly flopped.
This year’s Book Smart, directed by Olivia Wilde, was little more than a rehash of the 2007 Jonah Hill and Micheal Cera smash-hit Superbad. Replacing Hill and Cera with two teenage girls as the protagonists in the formulaic film did not inspire audiences, as indicated by the film’s anemic domestic box office of $22 million.
Original movies with feminist themes fared no better than their re-engineered woke cinematic sisters. Late Night, a feminist comedy/drama starring Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling, made a paltry $15 million domestically, while the painfully politically correct Charlize Theron vehicle, Long Shot, raked in a flaccid $30 million.
As evidenced by these failures, audiences of both sexes are obviously turned off by Hollywood’s ham-handed attempts at woke preaching and social justice pandering. The movie-going public is keenly aware that these woke films are not about entertainment or even artistic expressions, but rather virtue signaling and posing within the Hollywood bubble.
The female stars involved in these failing feminist projects, in front of and behind the camera, have a built in delusional defense though that immunizes them from their cinematic failures…they can always blame misogyny!
The woke in Hollywood are forever on the search for a scapegoat to relieve them of accountability, as it is never their fault that their movies fail. In the case of these female-led movies, the women involved never have to own their failures because they reflexively point their fingers in horror at the angry, knuckle-dragging men, who out of misogynist spite don’t shell out beaucoup bucks to go see their abysmally awful girl power movies.
Elizabeth Banks got an early start in the men-blaming game even before Charlie’s Angels came out when she told Australia’s Herald Sun,
“Look, people have to buy tickets to this movie, too. This movie has to make money. If this movie doesn’t make money it reinforces a stereotype in Hollywood that men don’t go see women do action movies.”
Of course, men will go see women in action movies, Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel being two prime examples of highly successful female action movies, but fear not, Elizabeth Banks dropped some feminist knowledge to counter that uncomfortable fact when she said,
“They (men) will go and see a comic book movie with Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel because that’s a male genre.”
So even when men go see a female led action film, they are only doing so because it is a “male genre,” got that? What a convenient way to avoid responsibility… with Elizabeth Banks it is heads, she wins, and tails, men lose.
Banks preemptively blaming men for not being interested in seeing Charlie’s Angels is also odd because she has also openly stated that “women…are the audience for this film” and that she wanted to “make something that felt important to women and especially young girls”. And according to box office figures it seems that it isn’t just men staying away from Charlie’s Angels in droves, but everybody…including women!
What the feminists in woke Hollywood need to understand is that men and women will go see quality female-led movies, but they need to be good movies first and feminist movies a very distant second.
The problem with Charlie’s Angels, and the rest of these feminist films, is that their woke politics is their only priority, and entertainment value and artistic merit are at best just an after thought, if a thought at all.
My hope is that Hollywood will learn from the critical and financial failure of Charlie’s Angels and the rest of 2019’s feminist flops and in the future will refrain from making vacuous and vapid woke films and instead focus more on quality and originality and less on political correctness and pandering.
Send nudes and make me a sandwich, baby.
Crude, but funny…lol
Whoopi has pictures on their way to you with her thanks for asking.
Wonder if Hollywood still thinks the new female James Bond is a wise investment? That ought to be about as profitable as mail order king cobras…
At least mail order king cobras might interest some people.
Perhaps a Mexican bull dyke with a negress transvestite would appeal.
Dickman’s dream dish is a Mexican Bull Dyke.
a nice steaming plate of bully enchiladas,extra cheese please–
I think this will be the end of the Bond franchise as we have known it so far because if it flops (as I expect it will) there will be no way to return to the white male Bond. It will be a person of color Bond but never a white male Bond again – we’ve seen the last of that imo.
Here’s the reality of your”Sneaky feminist idea’s” When the SHTF they will have but two options. Give up your best asset to stay alive or take one to the forehead.
These movies fail because they place females into a role that is not believable. All good fiction must be rooted in a level of reality and fact. Until the pussy hatters understand this fact, they will continue to fail.
You mean 5’3” 105 pound girls can’t really knock out 300 pound bruisers with a karate chop?
Isk, you try knocking out a 300 pound wooly with a karate chop.
if they train hard enough they can,it’s just that most females are too busy reading the fashion mags & then lecturing guys about being too chauvinistic to train hard–
any other questions?
Spare me the hand-wringing analysis. As Dutchman might say, this is what you get when you put women in charge. The truth is that I wasn’t inspired to see a movie with 3 Kardashian clone starlets. It’s not about placing females in incredible roles. La Femme Nikita worked very well and so did The Long Kiss Goodnight or Set It Off even. Queen Latifa, Geena Davis and Anne Parillaud were credible actors.
The woman in Fury Road was pretty believable. And for that matter Beyond Thunderdome.
Hollyweird has become too woke and too political. I choose where I spend my money and their products are not included. I have seen a total of 2 movies at the theater in the past 5 years.
If they had a brain, they’d make Drunk Uncle, The Movie, but they’d probably fill it with disdain for the main character when he should be a sympathetic character.
Iska – They do not have brains, they have agendas
This comment is 100% on target. It is a narrative based agenda pushing white men bad.
TN P… I don’t go to the movies often at all. I went to see the latest Godzilla, my son took me for fathers day as I adored those old monster movies as a kid. Had the best time! Like you, I don’t want to reward hollyweird with my money.
I did just go see Ford Versus Ferrari however. It was great! Highly recommended. A movie about things men did and still to this day do.
GCP – The last one I saw was “The Art of Racing in the Rain”. It was a really fun, family friendly movie and I only went because my wife wanted to see it and her daughter did not.
Read the book… I can’t go to movies where the dog dies. A wonderful story!
Same here, although Ford v. Ferrari was worth the trip.
98% of what passes for entertainment is not only an insult to intelligence but an assault on the senses. Beyond a waste of time. Watching grass grow is more entertaining.
Thanks for joining us.
TN- me too. And they were both produced and directed by Clint Eastwood.
Paul – We know Clint ain’t woke.
So not many people want to plunk down $14 to get a stern nagging? I wonder if this has anything to do with why McDonalds still refuses to roll out the McKale sandwich?
$14? Try $25
In Hollywierd things worked well when guys like Harvey Weiner-stien made the movies and the rules. Now that they broke the back of the male dominated directors club, what you have left is homos, lezbos, and worst of all feminists. These folks make up a victims directors club, and feel that everyone is also part of their victim mind set. (I was raped by my pillow – it’s true, you have to believe me)
When there finally is some sort of pull back from this debt driven ponzi bonanza, and money gets tight (and it will) the cash loosing victim club will be shown the door, and there might be a chance for a return to interesting movies, with actual plot lines.
for now, it is just another dumpster fire, that John Q Public is steering far and wide from.
What a crock men won’t watch women in action roles,I recently watched(OK,streamed for free)Alita Battle Angel and liked it,admittedly,the heroine was half cyborg but still also female and just a OK action flick without preaching.
Okay, we can cash in on this craze, here pal. Let me introduce my premise for a new dynamic duo with pizazz.
The Horned Nordic Temptress (obviously multicultural so a good looking mulatto is perfect for this role) and Trailer Trash Barbie (am thinking Tonya Harding type with a more southern drawl).
Nutshell? the two are crusaders against manliness and chivalry. Trailer Trash Barbie, hereafter identified as “Babs” baits the trap by openly flirting with men in bars, while the Horned Amazon (who is 1/1024 black and 1/1024 Aztec and possibly and albino) stands in the shadows waiting to accost and demean the last vestiges of masculinity wherever she can find it. Together they form a dynamic duo known as Femme Fatalle hurry, someone trademark that for the Christmas merchandising!
What do you think? Their first episode can be about how they completely eliminated testosterone from a shitload of NASCAR racecar drivers and then turned the sport into an electric car relay contest. The Indy 500 becomes the Indy 500Watt or less. The goal is no longer distance or time, but to win the race using the least amount of power generated by sources outside the car. The Flintstones becomes popular on television within the confines of the script of the series, with serious discussion about whether Fred or Barney get more acceleration: Fred with his greater bulk and obviously longer legs? Or Barney, with his shorter, faster pace. A little joke for the boomers because the millennials think Flintstones are vitamins.
So, after all the new feminized men are drinking their soy lattes and discussing their feelings with their therapists, the women all begin to rebuild the world in their own image.
Horned Nordic Temptress (name suggestions? I’m leaning toward Maureen) and Trailer Trash Barbie ride off on their pet unicorn, seen behind them in that little bag. Rainbow is ambiguous, but obviously promotes the current theme and agenda.
I think with a little brainstorming we could sell this one too!
(Dear God… the kid organized the cars by color and type. He is OCD.)
The horns make great handlebars on the ride to hell.
Did you give me all those downvotes? If you did, I’m telling Stucky.
Maggito, I have a keyboard, a brain and an opinion, why would I waste an opportunity to comment by just clicking a down thumb?
I hate this stuff… people around here are a mixed bunch. Most think it must not be for real.
My husband has always called Taylor Swift a backup singer who obviously has some hidden talent we aren’t aware of… she just had good timing.
And the notoriety helped.
I think Gena Davis was fabulous in this. Or Gina.
Geena
She’s tall. She would make a good Horned Nordic Temptress but would have to get her body tatted brown.
No tats just body paint! Then Geena can claim she did a black face stint!
Super-duper-incendiary grenade and the slowest drop for the third floor in world history. Great guilty pleasure movie, thanks for the reminder. ; )
The lesson Hollywood will take from this latest failure, besides men suck, is they weren’t woke enough. Maybe cast a transsexual cripple in the lead role?
The kind of crap discussed in this article is exactly why we’ve just about totally given up on going to the theater or renting anything on tv at home. For the most part Hollywood has run out of stuff that I care to watch. So many movies are just a re-telling of stuff that has already been made and they actually manage to screw it up even worse by gender swapping or preaching to me about what a horrible person I am for one reason or another. The only movie I’ve rented recently was a little film called “The Peanut Butter Falcon”. I doubt most people have heard of it, but it was the best thing my wife and I have seen in a long time. It’s a small cast of characters with a small budget and no woke bullshit. Just a story about guy with down syndrome on a journey to meet his favorite wrestler known as The Saltwater Redneck. Hilarity ensues and the characters, male and female, are likeable.
MTD’s life story would be played by a transgender black dude from Detroit who was a crackhead attorney moonlighting as a private dick two steps ahead of the law for a murder he didn’t commit.
I don’t know if that story would get made into a feature film. But I feel like it’s at least worthy of a prime time tv mini-series. If people think “This is Us” is fantastic, they ain’t seen nothing yet!
It might play in Peoria….
“This is Us”, if produced by the hood rats gaining momentum in entertainment:
“We Be Dem”
“MTD’s life story would be played by a transgender black dude from Detroit who was a crackhead attorney moonlighting as a private dick two steps ahead of the law for a murder he didn’t committ.”
lay off the private dicks,mark in carolina is a good guy–
Is it possible that all media, including Hollywood, is subsidized by the Deep State? How can movie production houses have repeated flops and remain in business? How can cable news networks with viewerships smaller than Saturday afternoon bowling continue to be on the air?
Mysterian, their accounting practices make sure they generate plenty of losses before reporting a profit.
QM?…Another question is why remake classic movies just to put a negro or latino in them, even if the movie is about Vikings, Ancient Greeks or Olde England, when most of them loses money? The answer is to have them available for when they eliminate all of the originals. It’s not to convince you, it’s to fool the kids. In 30 years it will be common knowledge among adults the Robin Hood had a black buddy, that Achilles was black, that some of the Viking were black and that the greatest fighter squadron of WWII was an all black outfit. There’s countless examples of what the commies are doing, but you get the drift, I know.
You didn’t see what you thought you saw. And none of us know what we thought that we knew.
Save One.
you my friend, have hit the nail on the head, all media now is part and parcel of the administrative state, hell it has always been this way.
All movies are nothing but propaganda and recruitment vehicles, and also a way of foreshadowing the tech that will eventually be released on to society,
like “the enemy of the state” which basically described the world we now live in now.
This is called conditioning, they expose you to something, and then when it appears in real life, you are not surprised and don’t immediately call your “representatives in government”
as if we have any of those.
Unarraigned, I had a friend who would answer ‘not guilty!’ whenever his name was called.
Jews jews and more JEWS. https://www.darkmoon.me/2018/white-genocide-the-dystopian-nightmare-to-come/
The AVERAGE woman … born a woman … has no interest in these kinds of movies. Action movies connect with men and the hormones flowing through our veins. Men need to start taking a stand and avoiding tribe of satan propaganda … as they seem to finally be doing.
I like Action movies as long as they don’t get TOO actiony.
I’m going to ask St. Jude to take care of down voter deer hugger for me. I didn’t marry an Italian for nuthin’ Fuggedaboutit
That doesn’t sound like a lost cause. You could pray to St. BB champion of frivolous causes.
To hell with em all.
I won’t even pay to stream movies.
Boycotted Netflix for the deal they gave Barry and Michael.
Older movies, on DVD, at resale stores for a buck apiece.
Recent nuggets found:
2of3 Bourne trilogy;
V for Vendetta;
Manhunter, produced by Michael Mann, of Miami Vice, and “Heat” acclaim. Disturbing, but well made.
Rob Roy;
The Green Mile;
the directors cut edition of Amadeus, where Liz Berridge as Wolfie’s wife, shows her rack to F. Murray Abraham, masterful acting skills by him in that flick.
Keep searching for “Taken” with Liam Neeson, as, IMO, some movies use plot lines to portray real life truths.
Just one case in point:
Three Days of the Condor.
I think the last movie seen in a theater was American Sniper, about 3-4 years ago.
Screw the lame, PC remakes the Janie-Come-Lately starlet & producer wannabees are vomiting nowadays.
Just as blacks demanded more of a presence in all aspects, now the fringe groups are following.
Women, homos, trannies, and bi-racials, with the Traditionalist white heterosexual male going almost extinct in filmdom, or if present, to be mocked, ridiculed, and targeted for revulsion.
The newbies can sell their soul for fortune and fame, after the casting couch duties required, in pay to play.
I’m not buying the garbage that 95% of movies produced today are selling.
Two more pieces of scum:
Robert DeNiro
Michael Moore.
Pigs.
Pigs are a better class of people than DeNiro and Moore.
For starters they’re not much to look at.
The author is not correct about Captain Marvel. Disney gave away tons of tickets free to count as seats sold. Brie Larson has the same man hating attitude as any of the stars mentioned in the article. That attitude was also present in the movie. The last Avengers movie was so bad many people refused to see it again as it was basically, a women good men bad movie.
One thing to note, however, it is like a lot of things these days. The movie gets make sorta like a fake news cast or article printed in the New York Slimes. It is done knowing the facts are put aside so a narrative can be presented and see just what sticks the wall. This will continue of course until all white heterosexual men are castrated mentally, physically and spiritually.
In other words, the mental beatings will continue!
Hollywood needs much stronger drugs to make up for the total lack of creativity that now exists there.
movie related but slightly different–
you know how it’s all the rage to miscast historical figures w/someone of another race,such as the black actor who portrayed alexander hamilton on broadway?
i just read on a site that studio execs once wanted julia roberts to play harriet tubman,and the black writer no likeed it-
So, Elizabeth Banks is an idiot. The sky’s blue, water’s wet. What else is new. Probably couldn’t make that sandwich without a recipe…
Most of this Jew Homo propaganda from hollywood and tv land is just unwatchable