It seems almost every time a movie featuring a female lead – or set of them – is released within the past five years that sexist and complementarian social media goes insane with vitriol and condemns these films, or says they are an attack on white men.
I have no idea why men (and it’s usually men) get so upset over female-led movies such as the 2016 Ghostbusters, Captain Marvel, The Force Awakens, or any movie that does not feature a young, male, white lead.
(The same guys were also disturbed by the mostly black-cast film Black Panther and tried to sabotage it – and failed. See: Alt-right group tries to sabotage ‘Black Panther’ reviews).
Before Black Panther, there was Wesley Snipes in the Blade trilogy. In these movies, which were released around the late 1990s or early 2000s, you have a black guy who is half-vampire hunting and killing vampires who were feeding on humans. It’s not as though Black Panther was the first black male superhero on screen.
Before Brie Larson in Captain Marvel and Melissa McCarthy in Ghostbusters, there was Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, Linda Hamilton as Sarah Conner, Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in the Alien franchise, and on TV, we had Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman and Lucy Lawless as Xena: Warrior Princess. The vast majority of hero characters were male for a long time (and white), but there were the occasional women hero characters.
But I don’t recall the complementarians and sexist ass-hats having conniption fits over those women characters in the past.
Some of these sexist knuckle-draggers even tried to sabotage Captain Marvel before it opened, by down-voting it on Rotten Tomatoes.
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‘Captain Marvel’ Sandbagged on Rotten Tomatoes Within a Few Hours of Opening
Despite the site’s attempts to subvert the trolls, 58,000 reviews were counted (with thousands of them later expunged).
Trolls Are Tanking Captain Marvel’s Rotten Tomatoes Reviews. But They Can’t Stop Its Box Office Haul
In spite of all those attempts to destroy Captain Marvel the media is reporting the following:
‘Captain Marvel’ earns $1 billion worldwide, becoming the biggest female superhero movie yet
‘Captain Marvel’ Reaches $1 Billion at Global Box Office
‘Captain Marvel’ rockets to historic $153M debut
‘Captain Marvel’ Smashes $1 Billion Milestone at Global Box Office
Captain Marvel is officially a $1 billion box office hit
Captain Marvel joins the likes of Black Panther, The Avengers, and Captain America: Civil War in Marvel’s billion-dollar box office club.
Box Office: ‘Captain Marvel’ Tops ‘The Dark Knight’ (Worldwide) And ‘Black Panther’ (Overseas)
Box Office Milestone: ‘Captain Marvel’ Flies Past $1 Billion Globally
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APRIL 03, 2019 9:09am PT by Pamela McClintock
It’s the first female-led superhero pic to join the elite club.
A month after hitting theaters, the Marvel Studios and Disney event pic, starring Brie Larson, has become the first female-led superhero movie to cross the $1 billion mark at the global box office, and one of only a few female-led films of any genre to achieve the milestone.
Captain Marvel has earned $358 million at the domestic box office and $645 million internationally through April 2, and ahead of the character’s appearance in Avengers: Endgame, which hits theaters April 26.
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