Why the Box Office failure of "Proud Mary" is an aberration

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The movie is bad. And the studio knows it.

>black female leading an action movie

why didnt the sjw crowd shill hard for this. isnt this the kind of representation they want?

If you read the article they pretty much state it sold like shit. Because it was shit.

Well, if the female was white

When did movie critics become politicians? I feel like this is a newer trend but please correct me if I’m wrong.

It started when they got paid significant money by movie studios to to shill for movies.

no the movie sold shit because it was shit. nothing to do with race/sex.

>movie no one gives a shit about does poorly

That's literally the opposite of an aberration. That's the norm.

>Shit low budget action thriller no one has heard of flops

That's not an aberration - shit movies no one has heard of flop all the time.

I mean, this is like The Last Jedi or Ghostbusters - I wouldn't put much weight on it starring women or black people - I'd focus more on the fact that they made a shit movie.

Is there a more shameless shill in the business?

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>bad movie fails at the box office

It's probably lack of advertising, I never even heard of it until I went to the theater two days ago for i, Tonya.

I dunno if that's the whole story anymore. It's like there is a whole segment of society so committed to a certain view of the world that they will do or say anything in support of that view irrespective of their reputation or any inconsistencies day to day, week to week, year to year. It's like there is a deep brainwashing at play that when challenged, leads to psychosis.

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>mid budget female led action pics

>Cast an ugly woman

There's a reason these are the domain of Kate Beckinsale or Mila.

Maybe if they had cast a hot black chick like whoever does Halle Berry type roles now, they'd have a shot.

I still doubt that because the movie doesn't have Vampires vs Werewolves or Resident Evil tagged on. It looks like an utterly generic nothing of a film.

Gerard Butler and 50 Cent have a shitty new low budget action flick out this weekend that will make shit money too - is that an aberration?

>that hennesy shot
How is this not racism?

1. Awful casting.

It's not about her being black or female - but she's old and unattractive. For that TYPE of movie you need someone hot. I'm not criticizing her as actress. It's just that it's broad/dumb action with a chick in black leather.

2. There was no indication of what the "hook" was, or even a story, and the action displayed in the trailer looked like generic DTV shit from the 90's.

this bitch is so fucking ugly I can't stand it

This thread is the first time I even heard of the movie.

Meanwhile I already got black panther preordered.

>(((Mendelson)))

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fuck Jumanji Pee Henson

>wtf I trust jews now

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Why The Chinese Box Office Failure Of 'The Last Jedi' Is A Good Thing

>Proud Mary
>Left a Good Job in the City starts playing

The issue is she's old and ugly, they even knew it since the poster is heavily photoshopped. They should have cast a younger girl as the lead and made Henson her mentor or something.

Studio releasing it in FUCK YOU ITS JANUARY probably didn't help.

Also we've seen a 100 films with women just like this.

the article is saying aberration regarding the accusation the promoter buried the movie for racist reasons. He's saying they promoted all their other black movies properly so this is abberant (not fitting the pattern) so there's some other issue than the promoter being racist

meant to reply to

like the movie being terrible?

Why is he such an insufferable cunt?

>its the other peoples fault no one came to watch this movie
>wah wah billions of people are racist and sexist
>wah wah who no one watches women sport?
>all people are racist and sexist including women who dont watch women sport!
no wonder trump won

I don't get how this is male privilege honestly.

He didn't instigate Blade Runner 2049. He was hired to make it.

He did the job spectacularly well. It being a film that no one wanted to see has nothing to do with the quality of his work - it's everything to do with it being Blade Runner 2049.

I don't expect Dune to fare much better.

And I still don't know what this has to do with his being male.

Can't wait to see the gnashing of teeth when the black panther doesn't preform. We're all racists user.

Oh...so blacks are saying the movie got dumped because Jews are racist.

That context makes his tweet a lot more sensible.

>DUDE SHE'S OLD AND UGLY

Would it matter if it was kino, you pricks?

It's a bad film, but not because of her looks. And it's not like her being older wasn't the point.

a bad film can be saved at the box office if there's something else going for it, which can be the protagonist being hot

Have you seen it?

>pricks

Why are you such a rude asshole?

Yes her looks matter. If I cast Woody Allen in fucking Commando it would be equally ridiculous.

Low budget, generic female led action flicks require a hot woman to sell.

That's the formula. That's what people want to see.

Putting an old/ugly woman in the role defeats the whole purpose. It's like going to watch a fucking Undisputed movie and they wheel out Boogie in a wheelchair and he proceeds to slap fight.

You go to see low budget martial arts films to see dudes to impressive martial arts demonstrations.

You go to see the hot chicks in tight leather wire-fuing and shooting people genre to see hot chicks in leather doing just that.

Honestly I would've saw it if it was a blackxploitation callback instead of a generic modern action movie

Tarantino would've made this great (but too close to Jackie Brown I think)

screen gems barely ever promote their movies, only movies they've remotely promoted the past few years have been: underworld, resident evil, pride & prejudice & zombies and slender man
can't think of any other movies they've actually tried to promote

No one wanted to see Runner 2049 because all the trailers and promotional material we're utter shit. No one actually expected it to be good.

but it beat the last jedi

I saw it opening weekend. The trailers and promotional material were 100% reflective of the quality of the finished film.

No one wanted to see it because it's fucking Blade Runner. Nobody wanted to see the original Blade Runner in 1982, and leaving a few decades in time between them didn't make any difference to that.

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Skip to the end. One of them literally only talks about how bad the movie is the entire time, but then gives it a good review just because of a black female lead.

If they had just added Tyler Perry Presents to the title

>black guy is the only one giving it a good score

Propping up a shitty product with bullshit reviews is old as fuck though. It was a major plot point in citizen kane even.

>Sony
Theres the answer

it's more a result of this Obama zeitgeist where everything is about identity politics and SJW doctrine affects all areas of discussion

I forgot about him
I actually liked his website Unreality before he got hired by Forbes and the new site runners turned it into SJW clickbait

The contention is that if a woman directed it, the box office loss would significantly impact her career, and certainly wouldn't leave her with a choice between two arguably even bigger blockbusters to follow it up (not to mention the Cleopatra film). I don't go in for much of the gender conversation, but I find this hard to argue with nonetheless.

For example, if A Wrinkle in Time bombs this year, I wouldn't expect Ava Duvernay to be offered any more huge blockbusters or prestige pictures. If Wonder Woman had underperformed, Party Jenkins wouldn't be coming back for the sequel.

>wrong aeffect
>thinks Obama started identity politics
>"zeitgeist"
oof

This movie about validates your theory. $61 million on a $35 million budget

>let's market this as a throwback blaxploitation flick
>let's actually make a generic action film with no outstanding qualities
They honestly double fucked themselves by trying to fool people. It would have performed better if trailers and posters made it look more like a Bourne movie and less like Coffy. A little better but not much.

It's a fucking shame too because blaxploitation needs to make a comeback.

Villenovoovoozeula was already hired on to do Dune though, it's a passion project for him, he's the one whose been driving the efforts at getting ti made. He's also had several other critically acclaimed films, and 2049 is a cult classic. These aren't apples to oranges, he's not a first time director fumbling out of the gate

NEVER FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM

(And Why That's A Good Thing)

>if A Wrinkle in Time bombs this year, I wouldn't expect Ava Duvernay to be offered any more huge blockbusters or prestige pictures
Duvernay was given a $100+ million feature as a consolation prize from Disney BECAUSE they pulled her from Black Panther because they knew she would publicly embarrass herself and the company again like this

Trailer was pure garbage:
-Standard stroke women kicking mounds of man's asses for no explained reason, but always home to cook dinner for Tyrone and Jarrel...

And they wonder why the movie didn't connect with audiences and earn the coveted "white-buxs"

Wow you’re stupid

>1:44
>stock punch sound when guy gets shot in the back

Ya, it's not like a woman was ever head of a franchise and helped churn out a completely shit movie which then didn't impact her career at all..

>Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale

This.
You think Disney's going to give their Star Wars head the axe?

>literally steals the font from other blaxploitation movies

>some other issue than the promoter being racist
he is also sexist?

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Guarantee Success.

They released it in FUCK YOU IT'S JANUARY

I'm a white guy living (cheaply) in a very "ghetto" section of a large city. I've seen posters for this at bus stops and other advertisements fucking everywhere

If you would have asked me before this thread what the genre of "Proud Mary" was, the last thing I would have chose was action movie.

Great job marketing

based NeyNey

looks like total shit. that trailer says nothing. no grip at all. bitch gets dressed and goes shooting shit. why? nobody knows. go see the film. no.

I actually don't mind Meg and Charles Wallace being half black. Pine looks great as her dad. Even Oprah seems like a good fit.

Reese and Mindy annoy the shit outta me tho.

>Sony

As others have said, the poster looks like a blaxsploitation movie when in reality it's just a generic action movie.

>Ya, it's not like a woman was ever head of a franchise and helped churn out a completely shit movie which then didn't impact her career at all..

Uh...I'd say turning churning out a completely shit movie is what impacted her career?

How does that relate to Villenueve who put out an amazing movie?

Also, I can't actually think of any women who've done that, really. There was the woman who fucked up Aeon Flux, but even she was given a second chance (that she fucked up yet again) and is still working.

> being this obtuse

>I find it hard to argue with

Why? There's no indication it's remotely true.

It's just an unfounded assumption based on persecution fantasies.

>For example, if A Wrinkle in Time bombs this year, I wouldn't expect Ava Duvernay to be offered any more huge blockbusters or prestige pictures.

How do you not see the difference?

A Wrinkle In Time is 100% Devernay's project. She instigated it. It's a wholly unique take on the material spearhead by her. If it fails or succeeds, it will be entirely on her shoulders.

Blade Runner 2049 was a for-hire job. He delivered an exceptional quality product that was to order. Hence why he would be desirable for Dune or 007.

>If Wonder Woman had underperformed, Patty Jenkins wouldn't be coming back for the sequel

How do you know? We've seen Marvel cut loose directors who performed just fine. We've seen DC/WB cut loose directors who overperformed.

These are all completely unfounded assumptions on your part, and not even relatable to the situation with Denis.

It's a "thing". Hot chicks in mid range action films.

Scar Jo in that stupid Limitless rip off too.

Can you explain why I am stupid?

None of that information was present in OP's post. Am I meant to just understand that instinctively?

The only thing that impressed me about the trailer is that they diversified the bad guys too

That's a level of commitment I've never seen before, Michael Pena is playing the Ultimate Evil White Dude from the book

Besides being a bad movie, they were wanting to release it in the summer but Atomic Blonde beat them. When that underperformed they buried it in January

This is exactly the kind of guy who's ripe for some #MeToo allegations. That is, he would be if Aziz Ansari hadn't done wonders for Men's Rights and effectively killing #MeToo by being a lousy lay.

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It'd been better if it was about the boat rolling down the river.

The absolute staggering autism.

Honestly there was very little marketing. At least marketing that reached me. I suppose Im not the target audience for this film as a straight white male.

Looked like a decent premise though I'll prolly torrent it

She was terrible on Hot Ones this week, too. Really bad choice for the first guest of season 5.

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Yours? Yes it is staggering. Please try to explain what you meant by your post, without using memes.

No statement about male privilege ever made sense because it is nonsense.

she's so autistic

That's not what autism looks like. That's just a low-IQ nig nog who is literally drinking DAT CROWN during a press junket.

>Some random film uses your song title and a lyric for marketing

>No sane person thinks it has any real relation to the song or it's lyrics and it's original intended meaning

>John feels the need to write a wall of text explaining that his song about a boat he wrote 40 years ago was not actually about a black assassin lady

>He feels the need to explain this in inane detail.

autism.

Jesus christ. She's ghetto trash.

It was like when I saw an interview with Jessica Chastain and found out she was just a full blown bimbo.

this

because it isn´t a franchise that has been enjoyed by white men nor a historical retelling that was all about white men.
sjws only care about something if it either directly shits on white men or takes something away form them

Sony has been taken over by someone competent. He just helped them bounce back with a successful job on Spider-Man and now Jumanji.

He probably also told them to dump this turd in january and get it off the books.