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Charlie's Angels Is The Newest #Woke Box Office Catastrophe, Failing to Even Break the $8.7 Million Mark in North American OpeningThey can't go bankrupt fast enough. But they're trying. Oh, is Hollywood trying! In the wake of Terminator: Dark Fate's failure at the B.O..., we have the further breakdown of cinema IP in Sony’s Charlie's Angels reboot, which is tanking with a God-awful $8.6M domestic opening, $27.9M worldwide (from 26 markets), 3 Stars on Screen Engine-Comscore’s PostTrak, and a B+ Cinemascore. Full-time feminist and occasional director Elizabeth Banks tried the usual "dark marketing" tactic of insulting men to get the women (and liberal soy-based men) who despise men to support her movie, making "Gender Aggrievement" the central marketing pitch for a popcorn movie: In the age of reboots, revivals, and sequels, Elizabeth Banks wants to know why people are criticizing her for creating another chapter in the Charlie’s Angels franchise. In this interview, she announces that almost every story in history is told from a "cisgendered white male perspective" and that any woke story is therefore "fresher." Audiences don't seem to agree, especially because almost every movie is now #Woke gender-swapped trash. How is this "fresh" given that eight thousand other movies in the past five years do it? "Fresh" would be a movie about men doing masculine-type things. People would be shocked at that bizarre, unexpected gender twist. She also declares that men have a responsibility to see women's movies, and I guess particularly those women's movies which intentionally demean and scapegoat men. She also made sure that audiences knew this movie wasn't only for women -- it was also for the other 50% of the country, Teh Gays. Elizabeth Banks, writer, director, producer, and costar of the new Charlie’s Angels from Sony, has delivered an action-packed popcorn flick that's fun, feminist, and queer. Oh, she worked in tampons, too. I was afraid the movie would completely overlook the classic action movie trope of Tampon Lecturing. This is really a four-quadrant play! Banks just couldn't stop being annoying AF: 'Charlie's Angels' Director Elizabeth Banks Challenges Trolls: Action Movies Are My Realm Elizabeth Banks must have know her Gay Tampon Propaganda was going to tank, because, just on the eve of the movie's release, she started making excuses for its impending failure. Get ready for a shock: She blamed men and their sexism. The filmmaker, who also wrote and produced “Charlie’s Angels” and stars in the movie as Bosley, called out a potential box office bomb as being sexist. "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." Although it is true that people -- not just men-- are reluctant to see action movies starring women -- for one simple reason, because it's dumb and silly -- it's not true that they won't see such movies. John Nolte points out that men turned out for two Charlie's Angels movies in 2000 and 2003, despite the latter one being terrible. [T]his has nothing to do with gender, and I can prove it... Here are two numbers that are not adjusted for nearly two decades of inflation: $40 million and $37.6 million. Is there any hot new take -- besides Tampon Lecturing -- in this movie? No. As this critic points out, they're still doing the same 90s era You Go Girl shallow empowerment sloganeering they did in the first Charlie's Angels movie, 25 years ago. Drew Barrymore and McG came along with a take that knowingly winked at its own history of sexploitation while playing into a very 1990s "you go girl" concept. That doesn't surprise me. It's always been a shallow, glib bumper-sticker. It's a marching chant, not a philosophy. By the way, the big reveal at the end of this movie is that the mysterious "Charlie" who's been giving these assignments to women for 50 years now... has been A Strong Empowered Woman all along, using a voice-changer to disguise her voice. You go girl. No, seriously: You go girl. You go NOW. They also seem to be trying to "Defeat the Male Gaze" by casting women who aren't hot and by deliberately making them look less hot than they could look. "Take that, you incels!," as Ya Boi Zack says. Compare that trailer to this one from the still-fondly-remembered 2000 movie: It's not just men who prefer women looking hot -- women prefer that too. The 2000 Charlie's Angels promised light, flirty sexy fun. This new Charlie's Angels promises that it's going to have a word with your manager. Weird how people don't want to see that. | Recent Comments
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