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mikailborg ([personal profile] mikailborg) wrote2005-02-04 09:37 am
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"What? The Outfit's Not Enough?"

I glanced through a magazine article this morning that discussed the poor box-office performance of Catwoman and Elektra. "Looks like audiences aren't ready for female superheroes," commented a studio exec.

Right. We're not ready. Or, maybe, they were weak movies to begin with? Idiot.

I bet the guy who did Batman: Dead End and World's Finest could make a kick-ass Catwoman or Wonder Woman flick. Maybe someone should suggest it to him.

[identity profile] eeedge.livejournal.com 2005-02-04 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Daredevil and Punisher didn't do so well, either, AFAIK. The former was a weak movie and I couldn't even be bothered to see the other.

And what do they consider Lara Croft to be?

[identity profile] corin-wolfkin.livejournal.com 2005-02-04 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
A video game tie-in and therefore irrelevent

[identity profile] jlfranklin.livejournal.com 2005-02-05 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Asymmetric?

[identity profile] nviiibrown.livejournal.com 2005-02-04 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I think they both suffer from being spinoffs of male superheroes who were inexplicably absent from their movies. Not to mention they made Catwoman a wholly different character. I think Wonder Woman would work better as a stand-alone movie heroine, but it's tough to overcome the corniness of a lasso of truth and the Red/Blue/Gold costume. If they made it a movie, they'd have to change the leotard and that would just kill Wonderwoman.

Imagine having a Movie based on the female G.I. Joes and not having the rest of G.I. Joe appear in the film at all.