in the wake of birds of praise box-office implosion there has been a
very unfortunate take away from fans and haters alike
and that's that men don't want to see female led action movies and that women
alone aren't a strong enough audience to support blockbuster movies I think
they're coming from people just being incredibly disappointed in having an
emotional over response to birds of prey failing and not looking at the obvious
reasons that have failed and that also I think people are trying to scare and
guilt people into seeing in its second weekend I see a lot of shady tactics for
trying to get the birds of prey box office numbers up but again I broke down
birds of prey in my box office report this week there's a link down below in
the video description as to why it didn't work out so many reasons but here
we're gonna talk about female led action movies in general where they've you know
you know why how they need to be constructed to work and what's gonna
happen the rest of this year because it's a big year for female led
blockbusters let's hope all right so now first glance you might think right that
these statements are correct right because birds of prey is the latest
female action flick to underperform or downright fail at the box office and it
would seem to be part of a disturbing disappointing trend if you were just
looking at it from the surface or not taking even a few seconds to think about
it alright because it's a very obvious and honest answers to what the problem
is and that's these films may be all made the exact same mistake and that
they failed to have strong supporting male characters now I'm sure that many
of you are appalled by that statement and furiously typing down below
why should female lead films need to cater to men well male led films have
been doing that since the beginning of Hollywood because no single demographic
can deliver blockbuster sized box-office women of course can't deliver on their
own a blockbuster because they're just simply aren't enough of them just like
only men can't deliver a buck a strong box of blockbuster
box office either and on that note every single major franchise has had strong
female characters in each movie even bond has this Vaughn girls yet that
is beginning to seem dated to audiences and has is having an impact on the box
office and now as Hollywood tries to flip the script and have female
characters drive these movies you need to flip the entire formula I don't see
how people don't understand something that's so obvious you need to flip the
entire formula and have strong supporting roles for men so they feel
included just as for again not just decades since Hollywood began female
supporting roles in the past strong female supporting roles have made
women feel included now flipping the whole script the whole formula is why
trailblazing female life franchises like alien and Hunger Games worked they had
strong male supporting characters especially in the first two alien movies
which were the most successful and then more recently Wonder Woman Captain
Marvel and even the new Star Wars trilogy did the same very important
there are of course exceptions to everything and here you have Lord of the
Rings which has almost no female characters it was very successful ah
that's almost like a fantasy war movie though so I think that kind of works for
that reason and then also the recent Joker film Joker really didn't have
strong female roles either even though they did try to play up Zazi beats and
his mother not really in the movie but I think Joker transcended that because of
the mythology and the mental illness and its larger message you know in terms of
it really resonated with a lot of people across the globe we saw it multiple
times Dobby helped push it into the billion dollar club and then I'm with
all women films right now the first sex in the city was a pop culture moment so
it did particularly well and then you have Kill Bill which was generally
well-received perhaps due to Quentin Tarantino's very strong male energy
behind the camera even though he well sometimes he appears on on screen but he
has such a strong presence in his movies no matter what even when he's not on
screen although I have to add Kill Bill was very low at the box-office very very
low like that was like before I think people pay close attention to box-office
as they do now and Kill Bill couldn't even get to a hundred million the
century mark which is really a mark that shows a movie has
even done moderately well at the box office domestically now as I said 2020
is supposed to be a big year for women in front of and behind the camera when
it comes to blockbuster films Ana's birds-of-prey kicks things off with a
big disappointment many are wondering and are fearful if the whole damn year
is going to be that big of a bummer so let's take a look and remember this is a
business and the best thing in Hollywood can do for these female led movies is to
have them be successes alright so Mulan like birds of prey
Mulan is expected to have a much smaller debut than other entries in its same
franchise and I'd like to point out that both those films have very strong male
and female characters and on that note Mulan has made many of the same mistakes
that birds-of-prey has made and while the original animated film featured
strong supporting male characters and not just strong supporting male
characters but big male energy and I'd like to point out they did not
overshadow Mulan but both li Shang and wushu have been cut from the live-action
movie now to be fair Donnie freakin Yin is in this new movie he's fantastic and
he's a huge superstar she still has a love interest this time a fellow soldier
the same level as her not not above her like Shang was and then yowling and chin
Poe also returned but none of them have been played up in the trailers really
only Donnie Yen has made kind of an appearance the rest of them really not
at all the new love interest did get a poster
to his credit he looks super cool but you know Disney has already released the
final trailer for this movie so maybe they could do some TV spots to play
these characters up so they don't have the same problems at the box office the
birds of prey I had I don't know why they would hide these characters they're
so great now next up Black Widow this film has strong male supporting
characters in place creatively it did the work but marketing wise it's not
doing the work right they have not really advertised them at all sure
Scarlett Johansson Florence Pugh and Rachel Weitz all look very cool in this
new movie but David Harbor is a fan favorite and he's been in the trailers
but not as much as I think he should be especially post birds-of-prey he is a
fan favorite actor and he's playing a very cool and interest
character russia's version of captain america i can't believe they're doing
red sun first some degree a taskmaster isn't getting nearly the spotlight that
he should despite intense interest from the fan base now some of you think
taskmaster is actually rachel whites but it's OT fag manly and he hasn't been
shown at the trailers at all even as the other character he's playing to kind of
I think throw you off right he was a Comic Con it's not a secret that he's in
the movie why isn't even put in the trailers Ray Winstone and William Hurt
are also in the film and they should be played up as well
Black Widow has probably at least one more trailer left to go and hopefully
they fix this marketing mistake it has a bit of a cushion that it's part of the
MCU but you don't want to be one of the ant-man's of the MCU right it would be
an ant-man and the wasp you want sure that Black Widow needs to be another
Captain Marvel which means it needs to get into a billion dollar club or at
least pretty darn close Wonder Woman 1984 this movie is in excellent shape
just as the first one was thanks to Chris Pines Steve Trevor and patty
Jenkins and Warner Brothers know how important it is as they brought him back
from the dead for the sequel my dad loved Wonder Woman not just because of
Galka doubt he thought she was wonderful but he really liked Pines Steve Trevor
he could really relate to him and after that movie he in fact became a huge
Chris Pine fan watch I am I am I am the knight from Jenkins and pine pine
starring it's very very good and my family watched it because my dad loves
Chris Pine so much from that movie and you know and we were rewarded as they
said it's very good but I do not underestimate with Chris Pine brought to
that first film and I what I believe he'll bring to the second as well pines
Trevor is truly Wonder Woman's Lois Lane but even better as he gets to be in on
the action and this dynamic make no mistake about it is what helps Wonder
Woman stay at the front of the pack success wise Pedro Pascal is also in one
room in 1984 but I think you can't just it would be very bad if they only up the
only strong male character in the movie was the villain because that's the
mistake birds of prey mate I think birds of prey felt and had male representation
but it wasn't it made them all the bad guys now Eternals I'm including this
film because it has an indie female director and many strong female
characters but as you can see from this cast lineup
and has the kind of balanced cast that would make Thanos proud right it's
perfectly balanced dissolve things should be and we're talking not just in
terms of gender but also ethnicity and as Feige has promised sexuality well see
how the movie does but from a business perspective it's beautifully constructed
and then finally one division o fans are chomping at the bit for this Disney Plus
series or Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda will finally get to be front and center and
her most iconic comic book story will finally be adapted for the small screen
will also seek Monica Rambeau all grown up very also very well known Marvel
character well kat dennings returns to the MCU and
kathryn hahn is going to be in the cast and is rumored to be playing Agatha
Harkness and immortal which cool character but again Paul Bettany's
vision is also front and center he's in the freaking title well Randall Park
also returns we haven't gotten a full trailer for that and I'm sure they will
play up all of those characters Wanda envisions twin boys are also set to
debut wicked one of the most famous LGBTQ characters in comics he has powers
similar to his mother and that his twin brother speed who of course takes after
Wanda's dear departed our departed brother Pietro so it would seem I think
that Milan isn't going to similarly underperform to birds of prey unless
they can fix the optics on that because it's shame because it does seem to be in
the film itself and of course the relationship with her father I think
that's all really beautiful but they they're not playing up enough I think
Black Widow is in some danger we'll see but I think wonderful in 1984 eternals
and Waterman Wanda vision are all in very good shape business-wise and I
think you're poised to do much better or it just do well at all at the box office
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