We're Still Stuck with "Strong Female Characters" Who Are Smug, Mean, & Reductive. "a grating tendency to write the same kind of female characters, a series of tired tropes that inevitably leave us with women who insult everyone and never betray the vulnerability that actual human beings possess"

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[–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Superhero movies are mainly for men. Some women like them but it's a low %. Movies like Wonder Woman and the first Captain Marvel did well but their sequels did worse because men now know that they will suck. Look at a movie in a different genre, Barbie, a comedy, that did well with lots of women going to it but not many men. Women like romantic comedies so it's not surprising. Disney probably looked at their demographics of earlier Marvel movies and saw they were mostly men and asked how they can get more women to go to them and hence more money. Answer is they can't.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I was actually thinking this today.

Superhero movies were started to be made en masse when execs decided the main cinema audience left was teenage boys (they didn't think many adult men would watch them).

Then research came out showing women choose the film 50% of the time but as no one can write a decent romantic comedy anymore they thought they could get that audience by taking what teenage boys like but filling it with women's issues.

Frozen didn't help either. The popularity of Elsa was clearly because she had super powers but she doesn't actually use them like a superhero so it doesn't mean little girls want to see themselves in superhero movies. They want their heroines to act like women and girls would.

[–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

super hero movies are from comics and those were often young teenage boys but they become men and they still like the genre. It's also related to the whole action movie thing. Women never liked those. Saying elsa was popular due to her powers is wrong. Women love disney princess animated movies. It's ok, women and men are different, as are boys and girl children. They shouldn't try to force demographics.

[–]Clown_Chan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well, that's mostly true. I'm woman and I don't and never liked superheroes in my entire life. But I don't like romantic comedies, either, tho.

If Disney want truly jew young girls and women out of their own money, then they should just continue making Disney princessess movies, not Marvel shit. They will never win over female audience with superhero movies.

[–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah some women don't like romantic comedies, just a small percentage. And barbie had romance with Ken but it was also a funny movie with songs, women love that too. Musicals. Yeah disney could keep making movies for men and women but not if they keep forcing stuff into them, like should they force manly men and action into their disney princess movies? No I'd expect women to not like that.