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<blockquote data-quote="Green Knight" data-source="post: 1986271" data-attributes="member: 2723"><p>No kidding. Talk about sour grapes on her part. Catwoman's failure has NOTHING to do with sexism and EVERYTHING to do with the movie being one of the worst pieces of drek ever put to film. The damn thing reeked "ABOMINATION" from Day One. </p><p> </p><p>As for Elektra, I don't know whether it is good or bad, but the fact is that it's a spin-off from one of the worst Marvel movies means that it's already got a strike against it. Add to it that, yes, it is Elektra, a non-entity to most people, and it's already got a lot going against it. And if what I've heard is true about the film being bad, then that's enough to make it DOA. Believe me, people hear about these things. Hell, I was psyched about Punisher until it was about to come out and I actually started reading reviews of the thing. I've yet to see it. Wish I had done the same with that massive green turd, The Hulk. My only disappointment with the whole Elektra boondoggle is that Jennifer Garner, IMO, is a great actress. So it sucks to see her talents wasted on two movies that were less then stellar. Especially since the likelihood of seeing her in another comic book movie are nil. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> </p><p> </p><p>As for the whole thing about successful movies with heroines in the lead, I agree with pretty much everyone that the failure of some of these movies doesn't signal any kind of a trend. Because if you look at other films with female heroes in the lead, they've been successful for DECADES! Some movies fail, others succeed, but if you were to group them into two camps, with a handful of exceptions, the thing dividing the successes from the failures has nothing to do with sexism and everything to do with an utter lack of quality. That's why movies like Aliens succeed, while movies like Catwoman fail. There're exceptions, of course, but for the most part it has nothing to do with sex and everything to do with quality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Green Knight, post: 1986271, member: 2723"] No kidding. Talk about sour grapes on her part. Catwoman's failure has NOTHING to do with sexism and EVERYTHING to do with the movie being one of the worst pieces of drek ever put to film. The damn thing reeked "ABOMINATION" from Day One. As for Elektra, I don't know whether it is good or bad, but the fact is that it's a spin-off from one of the worst Marvel movies means that it's already got a strike against it. Add to it that, yes, it is Elektra, a non-entity to most people, and it's already got a lot going against it. And if what I've heard is true about the film being bad, then that's enough to make it DOA. Believe me, people hear about these things. Hell, I was psyched about Punisher until it was about to come out and I actually started reading reviews of the thing. I've yet to see it. Wish I had done the same with that massive green turd, The Hulk. My only disappointment with the whole Elektra boondoggle is that Jennifer Garner, IMO, is a great actress. So it sucks to see her talents wasted on two movies that were less then stellar. Especially since the likelihood of seeing her in another comic book movie are nil. :( As for the whole thing about successful movies with heroines in the lead, I agree with pretty much everyone that the failure of some of these movies doesn't signal any kind of a trend. Because if you look at other films with female heroes in the lead, they've been successful for DECADES! Some movies fail, others succeed, but if you were to group them into two camps, with a handful of exceptions, the thing dividing the successes from the failures has nothing to do with sexism and everything to do with an utter lack of quality. That's why movies like Aliens succeed, while movies like Catwoman fail. There're exceptions, of course, but for the most part it has nothing to do with sex and everything to do with quality. [/QUOTE]
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