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This is trending on Twitter today. Ever since they announce another female-lead cast of Ocean's Eleven, the hashtag FeministAMovie is made. Everyone on Twitter is naming movies with feminist related words in it, for examples: The Fat And The Furious, Dude, Where's My Safe Space?, The White Knight Rises, and Pansexual Labyrinth. The Telegraph wrote a article about the hashtag thinking it's started by angry trolls protesting the all-female cast reboot of Ocean's Eleven.

If this gets enough spread, should it be entry worthy?

It's a real shame to see rule 63 embraced by the mainstream, but only as a political tool.

To be fair, there really isn't any reason to make an all female version of a movie with a male cast other than saying "oh yeah girl power."

In fact, it's almost implying that women can't be good in original roles and need to be a distaff counterpart of an already established one to be successful.

I mean, imagine how weirded out people would be if they made a remake of Charlie's Angels but with all dudes.

Do you really think anyone who produces these movies cares about "girl power"? They've just taken a notice to the Tumblr-feminist movement and how they cry about movies and went "Oh hey! Potential Market!" It's a Marketing Gimmick, whenever someone changes a characters/casts race/sex, it's not out of progressiveness but to exploit the TF movement for money.

Seems like just another "X a Movie" hashtag, but one with a twist that makes a certain audience notice more. There's tons of these, to the point that if we don't already have an entry on them they should get an entry, but we shouldn't have an entry for every variant, including this one.

What these people will soon realize is if they stay on this mindset eventually the only people who will watch their movies will be said Tumblr-feminists. And that's not a very profitable market because there's only a few of them (although they are a very vocal few).

When they start losing those asian movie goer money, they'll probably put the axe to it. For better or worse, they play a bigger role in determining what hollywood makes then the american audience does anymore.

I took note of something involving the Ocean's Eleven remake/reboot. The 2001 Ocean's Eleven movie was already a remake of the 1960 version. To me, I found a remake of Ocean's Eleven to be pointless already because the 2001 version already gotten two sequels, meaning they could have just made an Ocean's Fourteen. Also, you figure someone would have learned after the Ghostbusters Reboot bombed in the box office?

Know Your Meme doesn't have a X a Movie entry yet. Perhaps it's time to create one?

I'd wait and put it as a section of the Ocean's Eleven Reboot article that will no doubt be written. Then you can just tack on the extra section about it bombing like most reboots do because audiences are getting sick and tired of Hollywood beating plots into the ground and then digging up the corpses to beat them into the ground again a decade later.

[Ahem.]

Citizen Kamie
The Godmother
Current Year: A Space Odyssey
Ms. Bean's Holiday
The Woman from A.U.N.T.
Lady of the Rings
Hailey Potter
Super Mario Sisters
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich Queen
Transformers: "Michael Bay isn't the director" edition

The amazing spider-woman
All the presidents women
Twelve angry women
The witch of OZ
The handsome and the beast
Saving private Ronda
The third woman

Wasn't the Ocean's trilogy itself a reboot of a film starring Frank Sinatra?