'Disney's biggest flop yet': Star Wars fans say female-led next installment is destined to fail after 2015 comments from feminist director said her goal 'is to make men uncomfortable'

Loveontherockswithno · 2024-01-04T11:18:15+00:00

Yup, there’s nothing we like more than being preached to how horrible we are while trying to enjoy a science fiction movie.

kiaeej · 2024-01-04T12:10:51+00:00

They can do whatever they want. Its fine. But dont scream when consequences bite you in the butt.

Spins13 · 2024-01-04T09:52:57+00:00

DIS stock has still not bottomed yet trust me

AStreetcarNamedJim · 2024-01-04T10:58:58+00:00

I believe the overwhelming majority of people don't care what race or sex a character is as long as he or she is likable and memorable, and exists in a compelling story. For instance, Rogue One is my favorite Star Wars movie, and I liked Jyn Erso. But what's happening is that, much like with CGI some twenty years earlier, executives believe that they can change the race or sex of a character in a crappy movie and suddenly make it compelling. It also seems like a lot of movies have lost all sense of nuance, and at some point the cast will have to lecture us about what's going on and why we should care instead of simply showing us. If this is the future of cinema, then I welcome its demise.

Overall-Scientist846 · 2024-01-04T13:07:03+00:00

As if Lucasfilm hasn’t been helmed by a woman - Kathleen Kennedy - for what 15/20 years? And all she’s done is ruin classic movie franchises.

Rey was the most boring character Star Wars could’ve mustered up.

Final-Attempt95 · 2024-01-04T12:32:49+00:00

All her previous work was making documentaries. How does she qualify to direct a Star Wars movie ? OH wait it's not a star wars movie it's a women power movie masquerading as Star wars .

Thank you George Lucas for being such a bad judge of character.

solemnoak · 2024-01-04T11:22:38+00:00

Another flop to end up in the Walmart bargain bin.

StopManaCheating · 2024-01-04T11:57:33+00:00

Disney really learns nothing, huh

denisc9918 · 2024-01-04T12:38:39+00:00

'We're in 2024 now, and it's about time that we had a woman come forward to shape a story in a galaxy far, far away.'

<shrug> Pretty sure the fans will "Do a Galaxy" and stay far, far away.....

Imissyourgirlfriend2 · 2024-01-04T13:23:53+00:00

If feminists can't even fill a stadium for a WNBA game, how can they expect to so much as break even with such a business model?

Bacotell6969 · 2024-01-04T13:28:27+00:00

Instead of being a sexist piece of shit, why don't you make a great movie with a great story?

Rogue387 · 2024-01-04T12:51:11+00:00

The sheer volume of Star Wars Movies and TV Series has cheapened the Franchise the most. This just seems like some PR Hype as Rey was the lead in most of the recent films which i thought were good. Rogue One, Ashoka also were female lead. Maybe they are going to do a take on the old sci fi "Planet of Amazonian Women" style. I guess you need to create contraversy when your churning out one Film or TV Series after the other in the same Franchise.

DifficultPapaya3038 · 2024-01-04T12:23:49+00:00

🖕🏽 Disney

Disgusting Corprate sacks of shit that corrupt the minds of the innocent.

Crash and burn in the deepest pits of hell.

Rhbgrb · 2024-01-04T13:05:26+00:00

When Star Wars first came out it was for everyone. The problem with these directors is that most feel they need to appeal to 50% of the audience instead of as many people as possible.

gntlbastard · 2024-01-04T15:40:15+00:00

Imagine you decided to create "entertainment" that is set to antagonize half your audience. What sort of business plan is this? It's like that cafe that decided to charge a "man tax" - they are out of business and I hope this shit goes out of business. Frankly tired of hearing the words "Star Wars"

Recording_Important · 2024-01-04T12:38:47+00:00

Alrighty then

icedragon71 · 2024-01-04T20:28:32+00:00

"Put a chick in it! Make her lame and gay."

Every time I watch South Park,and think they've gone over the top with parody, it winds up becoming true.

FaithlessnessNo2495 · 2024-01-04T22:47:46+00:00

How do feminists hate men so much and still get married to them? 🤣

SodaBoBomb · 2024-01-04T23:43:07+00:00

"I like making men uncomfortable,"

Is somehow a statement that is applauded.

Flip the genders, and people would want the speaker in jail.

BEEZY086 · 2024-01-05T01:07:36+00:00

Star Wars and Marvel were both hugely successful, and i thought it was VERY widely known who these movies and comics had as their target audience. But it would seem as though Disney is hellbent on alienating their entire male audience and just assuming that females will fill that hole.

I know it's not just kathleen kennedy and Bob iger. I would assume that they have people throughout the organization who actually thought and probably still think that this is a good idea. But it's just so crazy to me that this billion dollar organization could be so clueless. When has a demographic shift of this size and nature ever gone well? But even at this point, instead of bailing on a shift that is obviously not working and the studios are losing millions, if not billions, they are doubling down on it. These franchises have declared that they are both going to cast and hire more feminists to make movies about fighting the patriarchy. Is being part of the patriarchy smashing agenda more important than keeping your studios afloat? What is this world coming to?

aries0413 · 2024-01-04T14:09:35+00:00

This movie is going to be a dumpster fire, hit by a train and driven off a cliff.

DirtAndGrass · 2024-01-04T15:25:51+00:00

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1581464/

how does a documentary and women's rights film director, with no experience in science fiction/fantasy become the head of arguably the biggest IP in the genre?

Cowboy71113 · 2024-01-04T15:39:43+00:00

Can you even imagine if a man had said this? 😂

SkeptiCynical · 2024-01-04T18:55:29+00:00

To paint a clearer picture on why this is a problem in drawing and keeping the primary consumers of sci-fi and fantasy action films, I thought of these examples:

Alien: good. female-led, groundbreaking pioneer in sci-fi horror.

Aliens: good. female-led, smash hit, timeless action movie.

Terminator: good. Female star, groundbreaking sci-fi action

Terminator 2: good. Seriously female-led action flick with only a glimmer of ignorant misandry during Sarah's speech to Dysan.

Game of Thrones: good. Super-powerful queen fighting other queens and kings, gets her shit checked in a series of bad decisions. Male and female knights. Graphic torture, beheadings and maiming is generally only done to men (Theon, Jaime, Oberyn, anyone who meets a Bolton, The Hound or Mountain) but prominent characters share generally equivalent stabbings, poisonings and neck-slashings. Men suffer more frequently due to the makeup of armies and the perpetual goal of precluding inheritance.

Terminator DF, Ghostbusters remake, Oceans 8, Endgame, Disney Star Wars trash and the 2 minutes of Velma I watched: bad. hamfisted, on-the-nose misandry and feminism that ruin the film and even the source material. Men are conspicuously dispatched without ceremony or conspicuously feature only as comic relief. In the MCU, it seems perfectly believable that until Endgame, every fight and death must have been argued in committee to make sure that violence between genders only goes in one direction and even in Endgame, what do we get, a cartoon punch from a Titan against a god-powered Danvers.

My thought is this: if you're writing a sci-fi action film, try not to weave in gender politics. It's unimportant in the source material, a huge majority of science fiction takes place in a future without any focus on traditional gender roles, and your primary consumers will not give you money.

ShiftyShifts · 2024-01-04T13:11:07+00:00

And my goal is to not go see it, along with every other female that rolled their eyes 15 year old boys growing up watching Star Wars. Have fun at the box office.

Ebisure · 2024-01-04T13:32:08+00:00

Disney used to be a sign of quality. Nowadays I see Disney and I don't even bother to download the pirated copies

niccotaglia · 2024-01-04T17:19:21+00:00

Making men uncomfortable in a franchise with a male-dominated fanbase…I don’t see how that could ever go wrong

9chars · 2024-01-04T21:57:57+00:00

just your typical femtrash

Asklonn · 2024-01-04T15:32:19+00:00

Thank God Henry Cavill is making warhammer 40k movies and TV shows, its’s leagues better than Star Wars anyway

ArcturasMooCow · 2024-01-04T22:31:23+00:00

Director will alienate the biggest audience for her star wars film. I will happily bankrupt Disney by not seeing this film. Men can do a lot with a wallet.

Joneboy39 · 2024-01-04T22:35:16+00:00

sounds like she has a goal to alienate a demographic who buys movie tickets.. usually not smart practice.

and just like how women dont go to wnba games , they wont care as much by half about star wars

DustbinFunkbndr · 2024-01-04T18:35:39+00:00

“I want men to feel uncomfortable.”

“Why aren’t men enjoying my movie?”

BrokeMacMountain · 2024-01-04T17:03:36+00:00

A youtube channel called "Endymion" just made a video discussing this, and the problems with misandry at disney. It really highlights ow ALL star wars shows are directed / produced by woen, starring women, for women, and men are not invited. Yet they still complain about being oppressed by the patriarchy. ffs!

https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=HxHEFrRydH4

BlasterFinger008 · 2024-01-04T17:13:24+00:00

The sequel trilogy failure has nothing to do with a female lead. Everything about the movie sucked and sucked hard

itsakon · 2024-01-04T17:27:22+00:00

Their goal was simply to destroy it, and they did.

lone_warrior_500 · 2024-01-04T13:38:36+00:00

I hope no one watches this film if certain people do it'll effect our upcoming generations the worse part

Morden013 · 2024-01-04T15:02:29+00:00

Good luck with all those female fans. Let's see how far you go when you eliminate your fan base by feminism.

Shreddersaurusrex · 2024-01-04T15:49:28+00:00

Ah yes the most important part of film making

silly_little_jingle · 2024-01-04T16:09:08+00:00

Great plan, make the primary consumer of your product not want to watch it then blame sexism for it's failure.

Omecore65 · 2024-01-04T16:47:38+00:00

This is why I became a warhammer 40k fan.

BelCantoTenor · 2024-01-04T17:28:04+00:00

The “Rey” Star Wars films just felt like an agenda being pushed onto audiences. It was boring. Not believable at all. The men and boys who gravitated towards these films were left without a hero to identify with (which is incredibly important for the success of any of these types of films). And the women and girls who saw these films weren’t as prevalent, didn’t show fan loyalty like the men and boys did with the previous Star Wars films. On top of that, women and girls who didn’t gravitate towards these films were blamed for their lack of success. Kind of like professional womens sports, like the WNBA.

It’s the movie studios creating a product, inserting an agenda into the product, and blaming everyone for not liking it because it reeked of inauthenticity. You can’t bullshit an audience. Period. Especially with movies. If they don’t authentically relate to the characters on screen, they won’t enjoy the film.

Haunting-Plum5305 · 2024-01-04T20:28:07+00:00

Disney needs to make some serious changes, woke culture is completely destroying them.

SgtSplacker · 2024-01-04T20:49:48+00:00

Disney is dead to me.

TheNerdWonder · 2024-01-04T20:51:00+00:00

Imagine if a male director said this about women. Really, just incredible.

riot_34 · 2024-01-05T00:29:10+00:00

This ain't star wars this is The attack of feminists. At least people will know what they're getting into.

Suspicious-Group2363 · 2024-01-05T00:48:46+00:00

Disney just never seems to learn from their mistakes.

_twowheelin · 2024-01-05T01:23:53+00:00

Yeah I won’t be paying to see this.

DecrepitAbacus · 2024-01-05T05:44:04+00:00

There's a layer of sadism among women I find inexplicable.

gntlbastard · 2024-01-04T15:47:49+00:00

Oh look, more disney produced shit I can miss.

63daddy · 2024-01-04T16:24:59+00:00

People, including men will flock to good movies with strong female leads so long as they are good movies, but movies like Ghost Busters reboot and the recent marvel movie show consumers aren’t so willing to support obvious gender agenda productions.

If studios want to lose millions vainly trying to push such agenda, let them loose millions I say.

Positive_Narwhal_419 · 2024-01-04T20:26:09+00:00

This will end up like the marvels movie.

matrixislife · 2024-01-04T13:33:41+00:00

Time for Disney to prove itself. They've been living off the Star Wars reputation for too long, if this is going to be another crap effort then there's no need for anyone to go see it. All they really care about is selling tickets, so if you have any doubts don't see it in cinema.

jameson71 · 2024-01-04T15:55:50+00:00

I used to love star wars. Disney has changed it into something I don't recognize.

Financial-Working132 · 2024-01-04T19:32:58+00:00

She alienation a huge chunk of her audience.

Other-Medium5577 · 2024-01-04T15:13:53+00:00

I already stuck a fork in that shit-show feminist crap movie franchise after Kathleen Kennedy ruined it. Fuck them. Fuck Disney. None of my money will support that feminist trash company.

Current_Finding_4066 · 2024-01-04T16:32:55+00:00

Who cares. We need some fresh sci-fi anyway.

SnooBeans6591 · 2024-01-04T15:42:35+00:00

Horror movies are made to make the audience uncomfortable, so there could be a market for this.

But I have some doubts still. I don't watch horror movies though, so what do I know, I'm definitely not the target audience :-)

Early_Inspector988 · 2024-01-04T13:08:48+00:00

Oh look, the daily heil is hard at work again. 🤦‍♀️

DryLeather2020 · 2024-01-04T12:52:21+00:00

She made those comments in light of her documentary on acid attacks in Pakistan, so I see where she is coming from. Nevertheless, seeing how 'The Marvels' and 'Ms. Marvel turned out I have very little hope in her next film.

Juanito817 · 2024-01-04T21:43:10+00:00

I saw the last trilogy on the cinema (yeah, I know. After the second one, I definitely should NOT have gone for the last one)

But I am just not going for this one. I am just out

OmegaDolphin · 2024-01-04T22:50:47+00:00

Her family is very rich & well connected with Pakistani politics. Grandfather was a shipping magnate, they own factories, husband is CEO of Pakistani telecommunications company, mother was involved in the Panama Papers leak.

Pomper-26 · 2024-01-05T00:02:30+00:00

Oh my gosh haha she definitely got rid of all the mirrors in the house!

snutsmu · 2024-01-05T02:35:26+00:00

Yeah boy! We gonna learn about Force periods turning Jedi grills into Sith lads!

H31N5T · 2024-01-05T03:32:26+00:00

I miss the times when creative people put more focus on crafting quality content instead of being focused on "spreading the message" like a cult member.

jack_avram · 2024-01-05T05:53:00+00:00

Wow what a crybaby - I'd appreciate a woman with actual backbone within that doesn't need to leverage their self worth off a life goal of making others miserable. Maybe she's extraordinarily miserable within and only spreading like a virus

Ahielia · 2024-01-05T09:39:00+00:00

Movies fail when actors, writers, directors, etc, make narratives that demonise 90% of their viewer base, imagine my shock.

Angryasfk · 2024-01-05T10:17:58+00:00

Love the way they call women like this “POC”. Perhaps the real term should be POLC (people of little colour).

Seriously she’s from Pakistan and from a family that’s always lived there until she shifted to Canada. Why put the term out as if she’s been suffering “generational denial of her human rights in American society”? America doesn’t “owe her” anything.

italianbro89 · 2024-01-05T18:55:06+00:00

I’m so glad that I actually have a life and I won’t be wasting one second of it watching this garbage. When I was younger and more naive to the world, I went to see the 2016 Ghostbusters. I wish I could take that experience back. I don’t really remember anything about it thankfully, except Chris Hemsworth’s character looking like an idiot. I do appreciate the original Star Wars trilogy.

Mundane-Experience50 · 2024-01-05T21:06:15+00:00

You know what? They can hate men all they want. I hope they hate men for the rest of their lives so they know no peace.

mrkanu · 2024-01-06T21:04:54+00:00

After the movie becomes a flop officially, she will still find a way to blame men and their misogyny for her failure.

KetamineSNORTER1 · 2024-01-13T11:39:35+00:00

One of the biggest desecration of such a profound piece of media ever.

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