The latest Marvel film, Captain WAMENZ, appears to be suffering from a truly gigantic case of “get woke, go broke” right now:

Now, that’s as of about 10 hours ago when I last checked the scores and ratings. When I checked about thirty minutes before that, the critic-user ratio was more like 76:37.

At the precise moment of this writing, Captain Marvel has scored $44M at the box office. That’s in one day, which doesn’t mean terribly much. The film was projected to hit $160M in its opening weekend back in January, then that was scaled back to as low as $100M after massive backlash against the trailers (which, let’s face it, were terrible).

Now the Hollyweird hype machine is cranking up again, arguing that the film is going to shoot straight past $160M for three days. That is based on the $20M in previews raked in on Thursday, March 7th.

Well, if we extrapolate the performance on Friday, which added a total of $24M or so to that total, over Saturday and Sunday in purely linear fashion, by basically saying that every day will add $22M on average to the box office totals, we get, over a 4-day period…

$88 million.

Now, obviously that’s a massive underestimate. People work on Fridays but are free on Saturday and Sunday. So I don’t doubt that at least another $30M can be safely tacked onto that estimate.

That still gets us to barely $120M.

That is against a film with an estimated production budget of $152M. Remember that for Hollyweird blockbusters you have to double that number to account for marketing and distribution costs. So in reality, the film cost $300M to make.

If you combine the box office returns so far with the extremely disappointing user reviews, you get a very grim picture indeed for the latest MCU offering.

As for the ratings, I have a sneaking suspicion that Rotten Tomatoes is doing some serious jiggery-pokery with the user scores, just like they did with Black Panther in order to prevent one of the social justice set’s most prized releases from getting a harsh dose of reality.

At any rate, though, there is no clearer indication of the vast, yawning chasm between professional critics, who appear to come almost universally from the same cities and social circles and therefore all think pretty much the same way, and actual movie-goers, who come from across the country and all walks of life.

Take a look at some of the other current movies listed on RottenTomatoes.com – such as Alita: Battle Angel, for instance – and you’ll see a similar disparity. For that film, only 60% of reviewers liked the movie, but an astounding 94% of film-goers loved it.

Very, very few movies ever achieve that kind of viewer rating. The last one that I can recall is from over 10 years ago – The Dark Knight. And that is also one of the very few movies where critics and movie-goers agree with each other; both scored the film at 94%. If you look at the top 100 films ever rated on the site, most of them have a pretty big disparity between what critics think, and what viewers think.

In the more relevant superhero genre section, the last one to achieve anything like parity between user and critic reviews and an over-90% rating was, as far as I can tell, 2017’s Logan.

These facts and data points tell us some very important things.

First, the two films that I mentioned earlier – The Dark Knight and Logan – did not have a whole bunch of social justice wankery involved. They didn’t try to pander to specific narrow interest groups. They respected their audiences. They were and are great movies because the casts and crews did outstanding jobs at creating believable plots, driven by incredibly compelling characters. (Yes, there were huge plot holes in The Dark Knight, but we’ll skip over that.)

Second, both films simply focused on the stories. They weren’t trying to score “woke points” with anyone. They just wanted to tell great and powerful stories.

Third, they weren’t trying to set things up for the future, not really. The Dark Knight was filmed without any real idea whether there would even be a sequel, though it left things open-ended. And in fact, the sequel, when it did come out – four years later – actually had to struggle hard to cover up the fact that the Joker was gone, and had to do a tremendous amount of work to build up a new and terrifying villain in the form of Bane. (They did a phenomenal job, in my personal opinion.) And Logan was Huge Jacked Man’s Hugh Jackman’s swansong in the title role of James “Logan” Howlett/Wolverine, so there wasn’t any point in planning for a sequel.

Captain Marvel apparently threw out all of the rules of making a good superhero flick. The title character is not, as far as I know, a particularly major character in the Marvel Comics universe. She has been rebooted a number of times because sales of that comic line were never particularly strong – again, as far as I know, since I don’t follow comic books much – and Disney and Marvel Studios only created this movie because they needed something to tie off the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s giant crossover events in Avengers: Infinity War.

My understanding is that the final Avengers film, Avengers: Endgame, will involve a number of direct insults to the Marvel fan-base. The supposed plot of the film was leaked in its entirety – though of course it could all be nonsense, we’ll find out in about a month – and will, again supposedly, involve a big fight between Captain Marvel and Thanos, gets her ass kicked (hooray!), and is severely weakened in the process. The film will end with the death and disintegration of Captain America and the retirement of Tony Stark/Iron Man.

This is, or should be, infuriating. Anyone who watched the original Captain America and its follow-up, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, knows that Cap’s character was really well done in both movies. Chris Evans might be a wussy-boy SJW putz in real life, but he did a really great job of portraying the red-blooded, old-fashioned, chivalrous, and deeply patriotic Captain in the movies.

In the films, he was a true embodiment of American values. He fought the good fight against Nazi evil. He sacrificed himself in order to save everything that he loved and cared about. All of these things resonate deeply with American audiences, because they go right to the core of how Americans see themselves.

And now Disney and the MCU are, apparently, going to kill off that very embodiment of the American spirit.

Why? As far as I can tell, it’s because the SJWs who control those studios and the levers of corporate power, truly hate everything that America stands for. And that is not surprising if you understand the first thing about SJWs.

Now, the thing is, I’m a DC Comics guy. More specifically, I’m a Batman guy. I don’t care in the slightest about any of the other comic book characters – including Superman. I don’t give the minutest quantum of a flying weaselpecker about superhero movies in general. I haven’t seen one in the theatres in years. The last one I watched was Deadpool 2, and that was on a flight going to somewhere (I think it was on an Aeroflot bus going out of Moscow).

So I don’t care much about what does or does not happen with Captain Marvel, or the MCU, or any of the comic book franchises. (Except the Batman films, where I’m rather cheesed off about the fact that DC/Warner Bros. still hasn’t figured out how to do a good follow-up, reboot, or spin-off to The Dark Knight Rises.)

What I do care about is the fact that all of these ridiculously overpowered, incredibly unlikable, charisma-free, and absurdly unbelievable Mary Sues keep getting pushed on us, as movie-goers and pop-culture consumers, by the media companies and movie studios.

And, inevitably, when SJWs decide that they want to tear down great existing characters and franchises that generate a lot of money, in the name of “wokeness”, the rest of us get seriously pissed off and decide that we are not going to spend money on that nonsense.

The thing you have to understand, though, is that this is not a bug. This is a feature of SJW-dominated corporations and organisations.

They hate you. They hate everything you stand for. They hate everything you believe in. And they will do everything that they can to show you, in graphic detail, how much they hate you and the lengths that they will go to in order to destroy you.

The financial consequences of their decisions don’t matter to them. The loss of employment and livelihoods to people who work for these franchises and corporations is irrelevant to them. The loss of your money, wealth, status, and social standing is irrelevant to them.

All they care about is destroying you. That’s it.

They don’t say this, obviously. SJWs are stupid, but they’re not that stupid. They operate in very sneaky ways. They will smile to your face and then knife you in the back when you turn away.

There are only two legitimate and effective responses to SJWs.

The first is to stop handing them your money.

When it comes to films, comic books, science fiction and fantasy novels, or any other aspect of pop culture – STOP BUYING SJW-CONVERGED WORKS. It is that simple. Just stop paying money to companies that are clearly dominated by SJWs.

In the case of Captain Marvel – don’t watch it.

Nobody who reads my blog regularly needs that advice. None of you are stupid enough to pay good money to watch such dreck in a movie theatre. But people that you know, who are not as enlightened as you, and do not subscribe to a certain devilishly handsome and exceptionally intelligent writer who exudes wit, style, and genius with every word of every post, will plonk down their hard-earned cash in order to be insulted by their supposed betters.

Make it clear to them that this is a mistake. Friends don’t let friends watch Captain Marvel, bro.

The second method of stopping SJWs follows from the first. And it involves expanding and escalating the war against them.

De-platform them at every opportunity. Deny them employment. Fire them from their jobs. Dox them if necessary. Destroy their livelihoods. Wipe out their sources of income. Make them suffer, terribly, for their folly.

If that sounds harsh to you, just remember one thing very clearly:

They will ABSOLUTELY do the same, and far worse to boot, to you.