Matt Walsh

I know this guy seems like sort of a loony dick, but he's right about a lot of basic things.

Female led action films in general are almost always a dud. There’s no audience for it. Nobody wants to see some 105 pound girlboss action hero. It’s a comedically absurd premise, and there’s no getting around that. The studios are of course aware of this market reality. Yet they keep churning these out anyway because they’ll willingly lose money for the sake of pandering to women who want these movies to exist in principle but don’t actually care to watch them. That’s how female-centric our society has become.

I'm literally in the belly of the beast of this world and this is 100% true. In public, women all say they really want these movies and yet they never actually opt to watch them. They will argue the movies "aren't good" and will further excuse them as "male-directed" or "male-produced" or when directed and/or produced by females, they will cite "lack of prior opportunities or experience" so the female directors fail because of systemic issues. None of these reasons are true. Women will watch the most dumbass reality shows set on an island if there are relationship issues at stake. And they know it's dumb. Just like a man like me will watch the most dumbass action movie if some bad dudes get killed in a clever way by the good guy. It's just the way it is. Action movies are fundamentally for the male audience because the male brain works differently than the female brain. Good action movies will be crossover hits to female audiences because many females are not dumb and can enjoy a male-coded movie if executed well. Just like I can enjoy a little Selling Sunset or Love Island at times.

But it's even worse than all this. Because they made a great female led action movie called Furiosa and guess what? No women went to it. So if anyone ever ever complains about not making or supporting female action films...first ask them if they saw Furiosa. They didn't.