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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Dear Disney...

Dear Disney,

As a lifetime fan, over fifty years, of your films, I have found it incumbent upon myself to step up and mention something that I find a little troubling. Well, a lot troubling. No, let's be honest, the absolute dumpster fire your film division has become.

Whew, that feels better. Let me continue.

In the past few years I've noticed a little something that troubles me. To tell a secret, you're a bully. You bully film critics and media sites to back your films and give crap movies good reviews, and it only recently had full light shone on it with the Captain Marvel kerfuffle. I hesitate to mention that the only reason this was so obvious and blatantly evident was because of your behavior over the Star Wars properties you bought from George Lucas. The Last Jedi and Solo were probably the biggest failures in film, and a complete and utter shame to a film franchise that had previously survived Jar Jar Binks.

I'll be honest, I was never going to go see Captain Marvel starring Carl Manvers, I mean Carol Danvers. I've hated her since the 1970s when I first saw her and I considered her a low-rent Wonder Woman rip-off and ignored her. Until Rogue ripped her up and stole her powers. No, I cheered at that.

And then, the beautiful, wonderful Monica Rambeau took up the mantle of Ms. Marvel, for that is her title. Captain Marvel was done much better at DC as Shazam. Monica Rambeau was a strong woman of color. I loved her. She was the first female Captain Marvel in the comic books, not Carl Manvers. She was also known as Photon and Pulsar, titles that Carl also stole from her. I missed her when she went off to fight space monsters. I adored Monica.

So, you let Brie "I can't shut my damned mouth" Larson take on a role that belonged to a black woman so she can go out there and hate on white men and women, and tell everyone exactly who can go see "her" movie? This is exactly what she's done. So, when she can't stop flapping her gums and neither you nor Kevin Feige shut her the hell up to save your franchise because you want to push an agenda, you sit for two days and watch the site Rotten Tomatoes, bragging that everyone wants to see your movie.

And then the worst happens. More and more people are showing they are not interested in the movie. You brush it off and claim it's all from recent accounts and probably trolls. It couldn't possibly be that the star of your very expensive film is so flat and so offensive that no one wants to see HER in the role. It has nothing to do with not wanting to see a strong woman, as you initially claimed because Wonder Woman and Alita: Battle Angel blew that stupid excuse out of the water. Plus decades of strong, powerful women in leading roles proved you wrong. Ripley, Black Widow, Scarlet Witch all proved you wrong.

But, you couldn't stop your star from offending the people who would pay money for tickets to see the movies. White males who read her in the comic books and actually might want to see the movie.

Let me confer some wisdom on your. Men like reading about strong female characters in comic books or watching them in movies. What do they have a huge problem with? Women who want their money and then kick them to the curb. Look at any divorce.

So, here is the one thing that I view with such distaste and I will now use as a dietary device. Your star, Ms. Larson, starts a GoFundMe campaign to buy tickets to send little girls to go see HER movie. What the actual fuck?  don't think I have ever seen anything so narcissistic and self-serving, and considering the psychological pathology of my ex-husband, that is saying something. If she wants little girls to go see her in a movie, buy a ton of tickets and give them to a charity that helps girls, don't make others pay her salary. Or, and I wondered if I should bring this up, YOU donate the tickets to the little girls to go see this movie? Or maybe buy them a DVD of Wonder Woman, which would be the better bet.

When you saw the "Want To see" score at Rotten Tomatoes, you forced Fandango, who owns RT, to remove that feature from the site citing "reviews". Hey, retards, you can't review a movie that's not released. This was a genuine, organic reaction from people who listened to the moronic star of your movie, who can't act by the way. Feminism evidently can win you an Oscar. People listened to her, figured out the movie was going to be General Gender Studies from The Last Jedi and opted out.

I know a lot of people who had wanted to see this, just because they're waiting for Endgame. Now they're giving it a pass. Further, most of them have declared that if this is the face of your next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they'll pass on that, too. I can easily miss this movie and not lose anything when I see Endgame. I know that, so I will.

TL;DR - Disney decided to make a movie about a completely unlikable character, staring an officious actress who can't shut her fucking mouth, then tried to hide how badly she was alienating the audience by calling them names and removing their voice, trivializing their concerns.

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