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I too agree that it looks incredibly generic. I feel that also perhaps an R rated Charlie's Angels movie would better. Not that it has to be be dark, but just R rated sexy sultry fun, but would that be bad?
And lots of action scenes and it could had been the girls counterpart to the Expendables.
Is it far-fetched to think then the 2019 Charlie's Angels is the counterpart of the 2016 Ghostbusters?
Vlogger timcast gived me some chuckles in his vlog about Charlie's Angels.
Banks goes on to describe how you can’t necessarily compare something like “Charlie’s Angels” to recent female-led franchise films such as “Wonder Woman” and “Captain Marvel” (both of which are likely going to make hundreds of millions of dollars more than Banks’ film). She claims that audiences will pay money to see the comic book films, even with female leads, because it’s all part of a “male genre.”
“They’ll go and see a comic book movie with Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel because that’s a male genre,” Banks said. “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.’”
She continued, “By the way, I’m happy for those characters to have box office success, but we need more women’s voices supported with money because that’s the power. The power is in the money.”
I love Elizabeth Banks. But I think she's offbase here.
Maybe she remember's Charlie's Angels being some sort of early feminist show about strong women. If so, she's remembering a different show than I watched as a kid. Charlie's Angels was very much in the so-called "male genre." It was a hit because so many guys watched it for the pretty women. Some critics even dubbed it "jiggle TV."
Why the movie is bombing I have no idea. Cinema as a whole is struggling. Maybe because it's a remake of a TV show that most young people have never heard of, much less watched? I don't know.
But I don't think you can blame it on "guys don't like movies with strong women" or "women don't like action movies."
Why the movie is bombing I have no idea. Cinema as a whole is struggling. Maybe because it's a remake of a TV show that most young people have never heard of, much less watched? I don't know.
I do. Nobody asked for it. Nobody wanted it. It came out of nowhere, and everyone went WTF? Again? Why?
The cast is unremarkable. I don't know who they are apart from Kristen Stewart, and I'm not a fan.
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But I don't think you can blame it on "guys don't like movies with strong women" or "women don't like action movies."
She's just butthurt. I like Elizabeth Banks and I thought she would be above this sort of thing. Guess not. I wonder what she thinks of Wonder Woman.
But I don't think you can blame it on "guys don't like movies with strong women" or "women don't like action movies."
She said something funny too when that was challenged. When people pointed out Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman, she doubled down saying guys don't like strong women leads outside of Superheroes.
<chuckle> Guess she forgot her role in the Hunger Games movies.
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