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In the original 70s show, the concept was to show off sexy women.


This created a whole genre called 'Jiggle Shows' that were simply excuses to show attractive young women running around so a male audience would tune in, and the concept worked amazingly well. The show entered the public consciousness and remains there today.

So who decided that the perfect reboot would star a lesbian, a librarian and an overgrown giant? Where's the sex appeal in that? It's as if someone decided to do a Star Wars reboot, but left out The Force, the robots and aliens and the space travel.

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Looks like this film is getting what it deserves. A quick burial.

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There are really incompetent producers in Hollywood who are greenlighting these doomed reboots thinking that they're capturing a new audience and year in and year out they keep failing.

I remember in the early 90s when the Seattle Sound destroyed glam hard rock and record labels, movie studios and commercial marketers tried to realign their marketing tactics by appealing to angst-ridden youth and it failed big time. It never caught on because the youth didn't take the bait, so it died an early and every necessary death. Fast forward to today and we see consumer product companies bending over backwards to appeal to identity groups using preconceived narratives that everyone is fully integrated and sharing space with one another when in fact it's just the opposite.

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IM NOT ENDORSING THIS FILM..HOWEVER,WHAT YOU ARE SUGGESTING A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL OF WHAT THE FUCK.

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Might as well rename it to Charlie’s Lesbians or Charlie’s Feminisms.

It’s a far cry from what Charlie‘s Angels are all about.

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Why do you think it flopped?

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That's definitely a part of it and I'm not disagreeing with you that the three women they cast are ugly, but the other part of the original show was to create ideal concepts of femininity and role models for young girls to look up to. If you actually go back and watch the original show, you'll see that there's a lot of episodes where the Angels just spend their off time being really nice, wholesome people doing kind, charitable things. That's why they were called Angels. It wasn't just because they were hot, but also because they were pure at heart.

They also do much more detective work than actual fighting, as the show was emphasizing the value of intelligence rather than physical force. It's much more believable to see a woman use her brains to solve crimes rather than using kung fu to whoop men's ass. That's what made it actually empowering. By telling girls that there's nothing wrong with being girls, and to set a standard for what they can achieve in terms of both capability and altruism.

This piece of shit on the other hand, has nothing empowering about it. The Angels are just cartoon superheroes doing typical action movie heroics that will in no way inspire women the same way the original show's emphasis on intelligence did. You're never gonna see any of the Angels display acts of unfailing kindness the way Jill, Kelly, and Sabrina did, as modern feminism has very little in the way of actual altruism and much more in the way of man hating. Without these things, the Angels have become pretty much interchangeable with every other female-led action film out there. It's why this film bombed.

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+1000

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wow great analysis on the appeal of the original Angels, and how these new angry feminist superhero Angels managed to get sent to box office hell

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//So who decided that the perfect reboot would star a lesbian, a librarian and an overgrown giant? //

LMAO!

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Would the film had been better if they had leads who are physical fit? yeah maybe if you got different writers and director.

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