Get Woke, Go Broke: More Women Saw ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ Than The New ‘Charlie’s Angels’ (VIDEO)

November 21, 2019 Patrick London

The Elizabeth Banks-directed reboot of Charlie’s Angels died an embarrassing and miserable death at the box office this past weekend. While Banks seemingly blamed men for the flop, women made a statement that they too weren’t interested in her agenda-driven film.

In fact, reports say more women went to see the new Rambo than stood in line to see Banks’ crime-busting trio.

According to Box Office Mojo, Charlie’s Angels pulled in a disappointing $8.35 million in ticket sales in its opening weekend. It finished third in the box office race, with two male-oriented films, Ford v. Ferrari and Midway, taking the top two spots.

Before the film even opened in theaters, Banks tried to shame men into seeing the movie. “Look, people have to buy tickets to this movie, too. This movie has to make money,” she told the newspaper Herald Sun. “If this movie doesn’t make money it reinforces a stereotype in Hollywood that men don’t go see women do action movies.”

It’s almost like she knew the movie was dead on arrival. She also wrote, produced, and starred in the film. Before the negative buzz for the movie built, Banks made it clear that the movie would take a far more feminist tone than previous incarnations of the franchise. She said it would also address the threat of the patriarchy on society.

While previous incarnations of Charlie’s Angels, particularly the 2000’s films with Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, and Cameron Diaz, were big on “girl power,” they were hardly anti-male. Banks’ new take on the Angels is not only militant feminist, it toned down the sexiness of the female leads as a political statement. That included casting bisexual actress Kristen Stewart as the lead.

Charlie’s Angels isn’t the only film franchise to “go woke” with a far-left spin and pay dearly for it. Men In Black, Terminator, Ghostbusters, and Star Wars have all taken a radical leftist-minded feminist agenda in their recent reboots, and all have flopped at the box office.

Ford v. Ferrari was the top film for this past weekend, with $31.4 million in ticket sales. Midway, in its second week, made $8.5 million to take the second spot, just ahead of the $8.3 million earned by Charlie’s Angels. Considering both Ford v Ferrari and Charlie’s Angels opened in nearly the same number of screens, the film’s failure to attract an audience is even bigger than it initially looks, especially when you look at the demographics.

According to box office demos reported by YouTube channel Midnight’s Edge, 66% of the Charlie’s Angels ticket-buying audience was female. That meant most men didn’t care to see the movie, but that doesn’t matter if lots of women went to see it.

The problem is, they didn’t. And the problems don’t end there.

When you compare the demographics of the movie-goers for the films, it appears women were more enthusiastic to see 73-year-old Sylvester Stallone than they were 29-year-old Kristen Stewart.

Demos of box office returns revealed that 34% of the Rambo: Last Blood audience for its opening weekend was female, a surprising percentage when you consider the audience should have been largely male.

Last Blood earned nearly $19 million during its opening weekend in late September, more than double the ticket sales as Charlie’s Angels.

With a little math, that means that the 34% of female ticket buyers who went to see Rambo accounted for over $6 million in ticket sales. Even at 66% of the audience, women only amounted to about $5 million in ticket sales for Charlie’s Angels.

With ticket prices unchanged since September, that means more women went to see Rambo than Charlie’s Angels. Don’t tell Elizabeth Banks!

Here’s the video “postmortem” report on Charlie’s Angels from Midnight’s Edge. It also details the other factors of why the film flopped.