They called it Mad Max, put a woman in it, and then Woke Hollywood’s staring down the throat of the worst Memorial Day weekend opening in 41 times —since Return of the Jedi in 1983. Before we get to the Sycophant Media’s lamer-than-lame reason for this failure, we’ll begin with the boilerplate…
“Ouch, it ’s looking really bad, ” reports the far-left Deadline. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga may post the “lowest beginning for a Memorial Day film in 41 times with a 4-day between $ 31M-$ 35M. How the sacred devil is that? ”
If Mad Max with a Girl “comes in on the lower end, ” Deadline adds, “the next moment a No. 1 drama or Memorial Time opening name filed a 4-day total taking that was lower was again in 1983 when Transfer of the Jedi made$ 30. 5M. ”
Back in 1983, it should be said, a$ 30. 5 million beginning was great. Now, it ’s a crisis. As of right now, it ’s looking like the best Mad Max with a Girl could do is have the worst Memorial Day opening weekend in a mere 40 years, or since Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom opened to$ 33. 9 million in 1984.
I saw both Transfer of the Jedi and Temple of Doom on their entry vacation. I don’t have a fine memory, but I certainly remember those two activities. Man, up then we had it so great we had no idea how great we had it. But at least we had it.
Regardless, the sycophants at Deadline are in a strong position with Furiosa. The prologue to Mad Max: Fury Road earned excellent reviews, opened on the perfect trip for a hit, and with no opposition in its action street. What’s more, it ’s based on a successful franchise and Warner ’s promoted the living hell out of it. So how does Deadline explain away this amazing loss? How does Deadline publish around the reality of how ridiculous it is to make a lady the celebrity of a film called Mad Max?
In the Sycophancy Hall of Fame, this delightful part of credibility-selling will make a flap all its own:
Despite more shows in the marketplace, we’re also feeling the aftereffects of the attacks. How is that? Some aren’t in the practice of moviegoing still [. ]
Some aren’t in the practice of moviegoing however.
How much up Hollywood’s cock does one have to get to come up with a phrase like that?
Recently, these hamsters blamed the faltering field office on a lack of extensive produces caused by the hit. That was quickly proved a rest by comparing the number of post- and post-strike large releases. Turns out there is no shortage of goods. But now we’re being told the attack apparently took people out of the cinema behavior.
What!?
Well, therefore, why were Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Dune 2 so powerful? Why is Deadpool & Wolverine about to blow the doors off the field company?
Sorry, sycophants … The problem is not the three-years-gone pandemic, it is not the strike, it is not that people kicked their moviegoing habit, and it is not a lack of product. The problem is …
The item.
With very rare instances, the item sucks.
And when you put a child in a Mad Max film, all the flowing reviews cease to question because we can taste the affirmative actions a mile away, and we know that movie reviewers, just like the business news media, cannot be trusted.
I know, I know … to deflect from the truth of what happened here, people will smear me as a sexist who despises women in any role where they’re not topless or in the kitchen. Sorry, no. My record as a fan of Aliens, Terminator 2, the Resident Evil franchise, Kill Bill, La Femme Nikita, Salt, Long Kiss Goodnight, Mad Max: Fury Road, etc. is well established. So let’s talk about what really happened…
Nine years ago, Mad Max: Fury Road succeeded because it was a bait and switch—a movie promoted as a Mad Max starring Mad Max, but…. It was a bait and switch that worked. It was only after we paid our money that the movie revealed itself as something else: a movie about Charlize Theron’s Furiosa with Mad Max as a supporting character. But Fury Road was so good, we did n’t care.
In between 2015’s Fury Road and this weekend ’s Furiosa, the only habit we got into was avoiding gender-swap movies—not because we oppose women in action roles ( see my list above ) but because, of late, all of these gender-swapped movies suck: the Star Wars sequels, Terminator: Dark Fate, Men in Black: International, Ghostbuster Ladies, etc. In fact, most recent action movies that put women front and center have sucked: The Kitchen, The 355, Charlie’s Angels remake, Resident Evil remake, Wonder Woman 1984, The Marvels …
Again, they don’t suck because of the women, they suck because the kill-joy fascists who produce them are more interested in smug lectures and man-bashing than entertainment.
In other words, all these dreadful movies have conditioned us to stay far away from a Furiosa.
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