There are Almost Literally No Movies Featuring Women any More

The article I link to points out that 90 percent of the films showing last weekend we all about guys or groups of guys.  That’s pretty pathetic.

Now I’m not saying that I don’t enjoy watching movies about guys.  I’m a big fan of Iron Man 3 and I don’t think it’d be better if it was about a woman. You can’t really make a movie about Superman without making a movie about SuperMAN.

I’m just curious as to why those are the only movies being made.  The movie industry will probably tell you that it is because movies about women don’t make as much.

That may or may to be true but there sure isn’t a lot of data one way or the other, is there?  Catwoman didn’t make any money because it sucked, not because it featured a woman as a protagonist.

Why isn’t there a Black Widow movie in development?  You can’t tell me the legions of Marvel fans wouldn’t like to watch it.  Wonder Woman is also languishing in development hell.

A Black Widow film would probably be all about Hawkeye anyway.

I don’t honestly think filmmakers have any idea how to make movies featuring women as protagonists.  I understand it is difficult but I don’t think anyone actually gives a fuck as long as Man of Steel has a 100MM opening.

And that kind of sucks for anyone who has a daughter, doesn’t it?

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