Woke Batgirl is so bad, it won’t be released. 100 million down the toilet.

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  1. garyd

    garyd Well-Known Member

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    Just going by what the source said...

    By the way the idea that the studio execs hate gay after Broke back mountain and a host of other gay themed movies is so absurd as to be incomprehensible why any one would believe such a thing.
     
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    People on this forum are claiming the Batgirl movie was pulled because it was woke. I know that fits the narrative but if you go to any comic fan site or reddit there has been a ton of discussion on this and "WOKE" never came up. Only the Warner Bros studio executives know for sure but this is what I have been seeing on Reddit and other forums: (Accuracy is NOT guaranteed)
    • The pulling of the movie was a surprise. The director were still in the process of editing the film
    • There was ONE test screening and supposedly positive. The screening did not even have the completed special effects.
    • The official speculation is it was done for Tax Purposes. The original plan was to release it on HBO Max but the studio considered releasing it in theaters. They thought it was not "big enough" to go to theaters and would not be worth the $100 million more to get it up to speed and advertisement. It was all "too Big???" for HBO Max. Studio would get a bigger tax benefit from scrapping Batgirl and Scoob then to release them on HBO Max.
    • The rampant speculation is around DC and HBO Max. DC is planning on putting all of there movies on there and create new content like Peacemaker and additional series and movies like Blue Beetle, Penguin and others. It was there plan to counter the Marvel streaming platform on Disney +. Problem is Warner Bros merged with Discovery back in April and since then they have been taking a so called "scorched earth" approach on Warners portfolio.
    • Right now fans are in a frenzy worried that other shows like Penguin and Blue Beetle will be next.
     
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    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    If they weren't sure, they really should have filmed two versions of the story at the same time.
     
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    I don't watch superhero movies, or indeed modern movies at all.

    I do feel sorry for Brendon Fraser in all of this though. He used to be the biggest thing in Hollywood, had many years without success, got fat, then scored this huge role and has had it canned. Poor guy.

    Genuinely nice guy who spends most of his time on his farm.
     
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    Gay is political to you? How odd
     
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    Yep, because shoving wokeness down the throats of the American public is out!
     
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    The reaction was positive? Not what I read...

    However, the film industry source insisted to The Post that the film’s quality was part of the equation and said its screen test numbers were “in the 30s” (out of 100).
     
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    I legit lol’d at that
     
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    ... the reason - Americans are tired of being force fed wokeism.
     
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    No it is political to the woke folk as is damn near everything have you not not been paying attention?.
     
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    Well the OP is a bald face lie.
     
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    It isn't just Disney. Hollywood has no good writers, no original material, these days. Everything is a franchise. Sequels, prequels, remakes, movies based on comic books and video games. There's good reason why Oscar winning actors are doing television, either series or what they call "limited series." That's where all the good writing has gone.
     
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    If it really is that bad, wouldn't they want to scrap it before it made them a laughingstock?
     
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    Yep. He's awesome in the Mummy and in Encino Man.
     
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    Just like wokeness ruined Batwoman (and ALMOST did the same with Supergirl). They should bring in Joss Whedon to rewrite.
     
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    Haha…if you say so. You poor victim
     
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    if it was really that bad, would hope someone realized it before it was completed
     
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    Nothing says the problem is the level of "woke".
    They didn't create Batgirl to be woke even. The character has been around for decades.
    It apparently is just a bad movie.
     
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    Exactly. I remember seeing Batgirl in the 1960s Batman series.
     
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    Batgirl the character was not created to be woke. The Batgirl that was to be depicted in the film had all the earmarks of woke revisions to the plot: Race swapping the characters, making the character homosexual etc.
    Those things were done literally for box checking purposes only. No other reason.
     
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    I'll be honest, I've not heard anything about it being woke. Just that the movie was bad.
     
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    It had a trans character (as the person is in the comics)

    If a film is good, I don't care one way or the other.
     
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    Who was the Trans character? I've not heard anything about that.
     
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