Do you know what the definition of insane is?
Hollywood will not force these messages on you, no matter how many times Hollywood attempts to do so. These films that have woke messaging fail at the box-office over and over. These mistakes cost studios and the companies that back them millions and millions of dollars and yet they continue to pump out these expensive movies, paying giant losses all in an effort to roll out “the message.”
This time, the delivery system for “the message” was the movie The 355 An all-female spy film that ticked all the right boxes to be a real woke movie. There was a wide cast of women who looked just like fashion models and could beat men three to four times their sizes. All the men look stupid, weaker or simply evil. It’s got characters that pass the Bechdel test. It’s got representation for days.
What it doesn’t have, despite all the talent in the film, is any charm or originality. In fact, just by going off the trailer, you may have gotten the impression that you’ve seen this movie before.
And it’s because you have. It’s not uncommon to see all-female sex-kickers movies, particularly nowadays. In the past few people liked these types of movies, but they are less popular today. Collider deems the movie one of America’s worst-performing box office hits.
The writer-director recorded one of its worst openings in a film this size. Simon Kinberg’s globe-trotting spy movie The 355 is expected to make $4.3 million in its debut weekend, which is good enough only for a third place finish. Conservative estimates had put the film’s opening at between $5 million and $7 million, but this is a terrible result for a film playing in over 3,000 theaters and featuring the sort of cast that it does.
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These films often fail for many reasons. For one, action movies are typically enjoyed by men and when you have a movie telling men that they’re inferior, evil, or weak, then you’ve stripped half the population from your audience. This is pretty bad already since a good deal of women won’t be all that interested in seeing an action movie in the first place, at least not without a man.
Then there’s the issue with “the message.” Even if a film doesn’t outright throw the message in your face, it’s lurking around in the background, making the film seem more like high-production-value propaganda than a film worth seeing.
Then there’s the believability factor. Although many people will suspend disbelief about many things, the chances of women weighing in under 100 lbs beating men weighing around 200 are very low. What’s more, we can see it in the film as men who are clearly faster and stronger seem to do reduce both of these assets as these women punch, kick, and do all the acrobatics around them that make these movies happen. This takes them out of all the action.
If the movie wasn’t taking itself as seriously, this would fly. It was great to see Gal Gadot perform it in a superhero film. Although Scarlette Johanson’s performance as Black Widow was amazing, these movies were about superheroes where you had to suspend your disbelief. The 355 doesn’t have that luxury. It rejects it so much that it forces people to accept it as possible.
It is possible to do anything, however probableIt’s a whole different story. Waking films, however, are highly unlikely. Be it the action to the way people act, to the way people think, it just doesn’t ring true to people.
It’s a wonder how many more times movies like these will be made before Hollywood figures it out.
Do you know what the definition of insane is?
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