So with the news that Charlie's Angels has bombed at the box office, I figured it would be a good time to take a look at the movie and try to figure out why. Grab your drinks, and join me as I explore the anatomy of this failure.
The Critical Drinker they lost me at....well everything but mainly Kristen Stewart. I miss Lucy Liu and no one got punched in the face better than Drew Barrymore.
That this Movie has Patrick Stewart agreeing to appear in it after having read the script make me think the depths of his own self-loathing must be deeper than the Marianas trench. I'll need to borrow Seaquest DSV to find his common sense to why he would agree to belittle himself in such a way (i.e. doing a Jim Phelps) I am now ever more worried that Picard is going to be terrible than I already was (I knew it would be terrible) But I was hoping there might be some entertainment in it that didn't involve Jeri Ryan.
Disregarding the "they made all men weak": if your villain is weak, so is your hero. Or heroine. You need a strong villain to show how badass your hero is.
That's way too involved for these sad sjw minds to comprehend. Remember, to them, the world doesn't work based in facts; It works based on the current emotional outrage of a virtue signalling small popular minority...
@@kaufmanat1 i don't know where you are from, but it's been a while since facts were important in the grand global discourse - be it feminists, incels, antivaxxers, republicans, or any other vocal group of people.
There was a hilarious interview where Elizabeth Banks said that men should have enough empathy to watch movies with female leads. I always thought the goal of seeing a movie was to be entertained, not to express "empathy" for the people who made it.
That's literally my sister's explanation of why men should watch women's sports but women are excused from it "because most of us don't watch sports in the first place."
@@rorygillmore6555 no offence, but I really hope your sister has a functional spare brain for regular daily activities because the one that came up with this idea will get her into trouble
These people are so retarded, they yell at us this movie wasn't made for you. Then yell at us for agreeing with them and not going to their woke feast.
Judge Anderson from the 2012 Dredd film is a perfect example of how to make a strong female action hero. She's not punching out men twice her size one after the other, she's using her unique abilities combined with her wits and weaponry to make it through. She even undergoes some proper and believable character development, from nervous and adrenaline-soaked rookie to a more hardened Judge ready to deal with the horrific reality of the job. For God's sake, she can literally read peoples minds and she's a more believable character than anyone in this film.
@@johnnysalery7383is it? The purpose of the clothing you wear shouldn’t always be to make yourself look as attractive as possible, a lot of the time what makes you look good brings some level of awkwardness/discomfort, and that’s especially true for women
"Men feel annoyed and resentful, and women feel uncomfortable and patronized." No other line has so perfectly captured the problem with movies like this.
@@aerial5587 Biggest problem really is alienination more than anything else. Preachiness is not a problem in of itself (James Cameron's Avatar is essentially Ferngully in space and yet is the highest grossing movie ever). The issue with these movies is that you divide your audience at best. 2016 Ghostbusters? Men hated it for being unfunny bullshit, women with any modicum of self awareness was it as stupid pandering bullshit and even the SJW, white apologist types eventually grew a few braincells. This? Horrendous flop. Black Widow? God that was shit and I hope it bombs hard.
@@lorddrayvon1426 I would argue that preachiness actually was a problem in Avatar...but James Cameron is such a good director, and the digitally-aided world he created so remarkable to drink in, that the tonal mistake didn't ruin the proceedings. I was in no hurry to see Avatar, but when I did get around to it I was pleasantly surprised how much I liked it. With one exception...the plot and characters were 1980s cartoon levels of one dimensional and black and white. The lesson to take from that isn't that preachiness can't be the downfall of a movie, but that strong filmmaking in general creates a margin for error even when mistakes happen. That's why 2016 Ghostbusters went wrong...it was just utterly awful. Contrary to the implied criticism in this particular video, Chris Hemsworth's character was perhaps the only element (other than impressive-looking ghosts in some scenes) I enjoyed, and that's because self-aware goofy Chris Hemsworth is always a good time. But we expect a Ghostbusters movie to make us laugh at a steady rate from beginning to end, and the jokes in this thing were such duds...
@@GordonSeal My bad...I didn't mean to imply that cartoony black and white characterizations are innately bad. On the contrary, they're great in the right media. Indiana Jones (which I love, excepting the fourth, and for very different reasons) was a 1930s serials-inspired adventure series, and in those some one-dimensional villains are expected (the protagonists still manage some nice depth, not surprising given how great Spielberg has always been at characters). My point in this case was that Avatar had a central major message to it (a very fitting one, IMO), but either didn't trust the audience to handle characters of dimension or else simply was poorly written. We have evil corporations that apparently have zero sense of history regarding the abuse of indigenous populations (unrealistic, or arrogant in thinking that even though the empathy for such peoples has changed that big bad corporations will always care zero about such things, even if only to not upset human customers). We have big bad military, all hoo ha with no humanity whatsoever. Etc. Take the same movie with the same general plot and simply widen the characterizations a bit (some hesitancy, doubt, regret, anything along those lines) and you'd have a stronger movie; create realistically conflicted characters who outright wrestle with the right thing to do and you could have had a masterpiece, given what the film did so well. If the point was to simply showcase the eye popping effects and world building, Cameron could have pulled back on the plot and made it about exploration and discovery, rather than exploitation. Heck, given the five film plan, that would have made even more sense, saving exploitation, conflict, abuse, rebellion for later, once simply going to Pandora wouldn't be enough for an audience. That's what I was intending to speak towards. Hope that makes sense!
It's even better to just let the drinker watch this garbage and then mansplain it to the rest of us....15 mins of entertainment versus 1.5 -2 hours of painful watching of pure garbage ....
I'm sure glad I anti supported this shit. By so many people not going to see it hopefully the large hit to their pocket makes them take a real hard look at the crapfest they've been turning out.
"That's the problem with facts, you see. They don't care about your feelings." This is such a wonderful tidbit of common sense and wisdom. It's unfortunate that it is lost on so many people these days.
And if it's a sequel, prequel, remake or reboot, the SECOND worst thing it can do is treat the original source material with disrespect (I'm lookin' at you, repugnant 2014 'Annie' reboot; I bet the Drinker could absolutely fricassee that one if he so chose).
Come on, superheroes ain't sober. You need to be quite drunk before you decide it's OK to go out in a Batman outfit. And let's not even mention Captain America. You'd need to fill me up with booze until I burst before I'm going to dress up as an American flag right before entering a muddy battlefield 🤪
Why does the feminist fantasy of the perfect woman, mimic to the "T", the stereotype of the alpha male...the same stereotype that they're always complaining is "toxic"?
Because it's there turn, don't ya know. Just hope I'm still alive to see the cultural backlash to the current state of affairs. Till then, let the shitshow roll on. 😁😁😁
She literally claimed that if you don’t pay to watch this movie in cinemas, that you’re a sexist. The scary thing is, people tried to defend her as if they same people that shit on this movie, enjoy watching the originals. I just find it funny how women like her think it’s fine to say “there’s been too much men on screen therefore other men shouldn’t have a chance regardless of their talent or merit” But complain when others say “I don’t think this is good” and cry about how it’s somehow related to what’s between their legs. Also, not to mention - people would complain seeing Patrick Stewart try to beat up the same people the Angles did for the exact same reasons (unrealistic and stupid) but somehow because he’s a man, it becomes a valid complaint.
"Its like watching someone throw up, piss and soil themselves. U know you shouldn't look but there's something mesmerizing about such a perfect disaster " This man gets me
You can say that to every other actors. Indie flicks offers them better scripts to work with than blockbusters. Blockbusters tend to focus on dollar signs than actually crafting a good movie. Even female empowerment stuff does it better in indie movies than in blockbusters (well Mad Max Fury Road was amazing blockbuster too that has feminist as the main theme of the movie). I always prefer indie films over blockbusters. I think she can be good in a big budget blockbuster, she just wasn't given a good material to work with. It's now mostly on the material than the actor
I can't for the life of me imagine how this movie is suppose to be fun to watch for a woman. If I was a woman and saw this, I would just feel embarrassed. Not really positive representation in any sense of the term.
Me and my wife were flipping through the movies from our on-demand-movie-provider the other day. Then we saw this Charlie’s Angels-movie passing by. Me: “This was typically a movie the Drinker negatively discussed.” My wife: “I understand, you can see it from the picture. Next!”
@@B0mber44 Trainspotting 2. It was entertaining, though it felt like I was watching a recent concert of The Eagles: it were the same actors, it was the same story, but it felt a bit dated.
"I do this so that you won't have to." That's why I prefer watching your content than seeing the movie itself like most movies these days. Thanks for your endeavors, critical drinker! Cheers mate.
To be fair, it was almost exactly 14 years between the 9/11 terror attacks and the completion of the Freedom Tower to replace the WTC, while the empire state building took barely over a year to build. The war in Iraq and Afghanistan have lasted nearly 20 years, while WW2 lasted not even 10. Everything takes longer now - even if they are pointless and without virtue compared to their antecedents.
Oh Critical Drinker, I salute & drink to you. There is too much, beautifully articulate, much needed, magnificent commentary to single out to comment on here so, bless you Sir, I'll have another drink to you!
"The First World War was wrapped up quicker than this thing." I'm not sure it's fair to draw parallels between Charlie's Angels 2019 and WWI. I mean, one was a tragic, wasteful disaster, and the other was World War I.
@@blackmantis3130 Yeah, with freaking Queen Latifah!!! An overweight middle-aged woman!!! But hey, she's a black woman so it's all good. What an absurd embarrassing fucking joke!
"Theoretically, she is a character in this film" I laughed way harder than that as I should, and I wonder why I haven't been using this phrase before in my own reviews of films and dramas.
Here it is 3 years later, and not only has Hollywood not woken up to not pissing off their audience, they've doubled down on this kind of crap again, and again, and again.
According to audiences, Critical Drinker is more accurate than Rotten Tomatoes 98% of the time, but according to critics, he's only more accurate 7% of the time.
In the interest of ballance here, the line "There was a gun fight at my wedding" "I didn't know you were married." "I'm not, I was the better shot." was actually well delivered and (compared to the other attempts in the movie) quite a good joke... and the "movie buff scene" mostly worked. And they are the only positives I can come up with.
I think strippers are played out in cinema, but Id watch a film about female ninja strippers, I mean Roger Corman made a career out of those kind of films. WHERE IS THE CURRENT DAY ROGER CORMAN?!?!?
Elizabeth Banks: "You hate this movie because you hate powerful women" Me: points at- Princess Leia, Wonder Woman, Mystique, Lara Croft, Kumiko, Jyn Erso, Wanda, etc.
Cameron my mom was actually around when the show was popular and said it was for both. Boys loved how hot the girls were and girls wanted to be the angels because how awesome they were
I worked on this film. Half the crew banged our heads into the wall seeing from day1 of production quite how awful it was gonna be. And more than a few of us have said "we hope at least the drinker does something good with this!". ;)
I'm so happy I found the Drinker. I no longer need to waste so much time on hyped bullshit. The "Recommends" playlist is a goldmine. Going through these reviews is a breath of fresh air. I can obviously tell when a movie is a disappointment, but the Drinker can tell me why it is so :) :)
@Andrew Jackson Because they're failing to make a profit out of our favourite things. If that shit of woke-minator was a success they would've made another 2, now they have to lick their wounds, and so has to do that Bank-feminazi. Anyway it's not like you can consider those things canon.
@Andrew Jackson I see your point, but the only thing we can do is talk about how bad they're, making them fail at the boxoffice and making famous movies that really are good, helping them stay relevant in the history of film making, and that's not something these sjws will be able to erase. Eventually new generations of actors and directors will crave a piece of that fame and they'll make what the public really wants. That's what I think and what I hope.
As someone who thought Rambo: Last Blood was trash too (never liked that plot they mentioned for a decade or trashing Rambo's attempt at a new life in such a manner, much preferred John Rambo as an ending and solid sequel better than 3), I'm still not suprised at all.
I care cause it sets a precedent. So movies like StarWars will make money regardless of how bad they are and encourage people to keep turning franchises into trash.
The originals were great, and exactly as he describes. Fun and light-hearted and didn't take themselves too seriously. There was no need for this terrible remake.
This was one of the first of your videos I watched, Drinker, and it completely changed how I write the women characters in my novels! Thank you. Sometimes I come back to watch it just for a refresher.
"Mouth breather" "Gigantor" "Smug business man" "Magical science lady" and so on and so forth, Critical you manufacturer of much loved monikers of movie characters you've done it again my friend.
"The women are universally smart, virtuous, incorruptible, tough, confident, outspoken, highly skilled at everything, and physically unstoppable." ...unless someone turns up wearing the same dress, amiright?!
Those feminist filmmakers should take a lesson from Terminator or Alien movies. Ripley and Connor are the true example of badass action characters that don't have to scream "Women are better than men" every screen.
I think Hit-Girl was the best representation of feminism. Mindy doesn’t CARE what people think of her. She tried doing the makeup and the dating and the dances and all of it was thrown back in her face. When her dad was killed, she didn’t cry. She didn’t complain. She got PISSED and went and killed the men who took her only family left. And guess what?! An ADULT MAN punches her! He CHOKES her! And not ONCE does Mindy cry or try to use her gender or age as a handicap. She bit him, stabbed him where she could reach, and used her appearance to an advantage even. And this was 2009/2010/2011.
Even Sidney Prescott from SCREAM. She was a 17 year old girl who’d seen her mom cut up. The first time Ghostface tried to kill her, she dodged and even kicked him in the leg when being thrown. And she only gets tougher and tougher with each sequel. By Scream 4 she asks Ghostface to come after her and minutes later kicks him square in the jaw.
The last 2 minutes of this video is the most concise and straight to the point breakdown, judge and jury for Hollywood that I've seen in any (Drinker) video, and Drinker has produced many quality takedowns. Chapeau, my sharp tongued friend.
They once asked Uwe Boll,how the fuck he got Sir Ben Kingsley to play in his shitty "Blood Rayne" movie. Boll aswered: "Well, I guess even an acclaimed actor like Kingsley has bills to pay,ja?"
@crazyrabbits let's not forget him playing a literal piece of shit on Emoji movie. Hitting a rock bottom, breaking through and going even further beyond.
Banks should be blaming Larson, she’s the one who told us to ignore these projects, I mean I was gunna see A Wrinkle in Time but then she said it wasn’t for me. I was gunna go see this but then I heard Larson’s voice in my head and was like “I guess I’ll spend that $12 on another two shots of whiskey.”
The TV show was cool. I still remember it. It was smart, it was sexy, and it was filled with hot 70s babes and cool 70s studs. More importantly, it gave the characters power organically. Each of the characters had a coherent backstory as to why they were they way they were and how they ended up working for Charlie. And those stories weren't just there and forgotten, but occasionally cropped up and were built on, creating a solid story arc and the very thing this cheap knockoff tried to siphon off for itself: fun. That's right. It was a fun TV show. Remember fun? That's what this movie wasn't, and why it failed.
We appreciate your work TCD, you save us valuable time by not letting us watch any of these garbage. You deserve all the likes and praise in the world.
@Zoomer Waffen hahaha, yeh the story of every day modern society...is there anywhere we can escape too that is still free to express the love of a heterosexual woman while trying to romanticize her without being called a misogynistic bigot!?
@00:58-01:06 Why is it that I am not so surprised that a lot of people didn't even know that the original 1970's TV series even existed? This is truly a very sad time to live in, my friends.
I LOVE the old series from the 70s because - cool 70s clothes, cool 70s hair, cool girls doing cool stuff. But there's more to it: the first season had really good whodunnit scripts that WORKED. The script quality declined from the second season onward. My point is, the old series became famous because it had good writing. In the original series, the girls were also ex-policewomen. Which explains why they knew jiu jitsu, how to examine a suspect's room, etc. In both reboots, the girls are just ... born superhuman, I guess?
Díaz, Lou, and Barrymore didn’t have an agenda in mind when the movie was made. They were probably like, wow this is a ridiculous script let’s have some fun and since we are actors people are going to watch this so let try to make it fun for them. Imagine a movie made for the sake of fun and entertainment... the horror....
Also, the victories in those earlier movies meant something because the male and female antagonists were clever and dangerous. If someone overcomes someone like that it feels empowering because it IS. If the heroes are already infallible, who cares?
The thing is the older movies didn’t just have some petty white dude as the villain, the first movie was a partnership of a super genius and his female partner (who was most of the driving force of their plans and quite handy in a fight) and the sequel was a former member of there own group who had basically decided to use her skills as a former angel to massively profit. They’re was no agenda of “men do bad, woomen gooder!” Within the movie as a whole
I figured if you hit a dude that many times in the face with your elbow and he (not particularly strong) managed to 1) not lose consciousness and 2) continually support your weight... you might need fight classes
I loved the original Charlie's Angels movies as they never took themselves seriously. Even Alias and Xena had a tongue-in-cheek vibe. The greatest female empowerment movies and TV shows use men and women as equals or villains. They are equals because they are good, they are villains because they are bad.
You nailed it! “Women feel uncomfortable and patronized.” That’s how I feel in these so called “girl power” movies. The scene in avengers endgame where all the female characters came together to do battle had me rolling my eyes to the point that it was probably audible. Strong females protagonist are so poorly written these days. They’re either defined by the abuse they’ve suffered a la Sansa Stark or they’re perfect and OP to the point of unrelatable. Characters like Ellen Ripley are good because they’re relatable. She was brave and tough as nails because she was terrified and vulnerable, yet still able to overcome her fear and kick ass. Sigorney Weaver plays this character superbly, she make Ellen Ripley’s fear believable. You’re invested in her character and the outcome of her journey. These “strong female characters” are boring because there are no stakes, they’re never in true peril, they have no flaws, and they never fail at anything. Totally unrelatable and not something I want my daughter looking up to.
Dude! I thought I was thee only one hating that "Woman power" scene in the avengers movie. Also, Xmen is way better than avengers. Only part of marvel I like. Otherwise Dc all day.
Yeah it was cartoonish lol I honestly couldn't tell if she was supposed to be making contact with her fist or her elbow due to the terrible fight choreography. First off, the angle of the camera wasn't helping matters given that it was already clear that Stewart was barely even attempting to make believable contact. Secondly, if she was supposed to be punching as opposed to an elbow strike, her fist looked more like it was flailing, not punching and her elbow itself was flopping so much that even a haymaker would've lost any and all impact. I know I'm going a bit in-depth about these minute details, but I can't help noticing these kind of details. I grew up watching martial arts movies and I also train in martial arts as well, on top of having been active in theatre courses since I was in high school. As a result, one thing I did learn in regards to stage combat was the importance of certain details when performing a fight scene. Due to that, I can't help but laugh in derision at Kristen Stewart's attempt at playing a badass. There are so many women who make hand to hand combat look effortless on screen, and to be blunt, she isn't one of them.
@Jack Reacher And this one's doing it while riding on the coattails of the men who created the original series and the two (successful) earlier movies.
I’m not sure. Sony’s films are basically expensive commercials for their products and affiliated brands. Not sure it’s expected to make money on its own.
I for one am OUTRAGED: This is 2019, the Charlie's Angels remake should be starring a diverse multicultural cast of MEN as the Angels, because reversing things is always woke.
You say this as a joke but I wouldn’t mind a guys team, straight or gay, to be part of this franchise. The 2000 movie didn’t pretend to be anything other than fluff but still had girl power elements and waaay better action scenes. How does that happen?! The 2019 one could have at least had “atomic blonde” or “John Wick” level action scenes - but the movie wasn’t enough of anything. Plus the fact that any light hearted calmness the original had was erased in this one COMPLETELY
Might be an old comment but ever since that terrible ad I still have never bought a gilette product and I never will again, that shit is the WORST a REAL man can get. Go support Old Spice
cjones29hd why she mad at us we just not interested in women empowerment movies not saving Wonder Woman wasn’t now that was a good woman empowerment movie and a good action movie
