Disclaimer:

I haven’t watched Ford V Ferrari or Charlies Angles (2019) at this juncture.
However, I’m going to give this analysis thing a stab.   Since I really know what’s on the surface, I’ll be able to just sally forth without, hopefully, getting too much off track.  Besides, second and third-hand knowledge seems to be perfect for the impeachment trial.   So, why should I jump to opinions and assumptions?

These two movies appeal to my social-psychological side.  Given the social climate and how the movies have rated and earned exactly inverse.
They were released on the same date.  <–  I think that’s pretty important.   Released at the same time.  

Although from 20th Century Fox, Ford v. Ferrari is a movie about two combustible vehicles, how they’re improved, the passion of men to do so, for winning a race primarily means the people drive around in circles.

I’m sure there’s a lot more too it, but that’s the impression I gain from the trailers.

If I had time and money to throw around, this doesn’t sound half bad to me.  Since I have an unrequited love for sports cars watching a dramatic documentary of two of the biggest car names would appeal   It’s also helpful that the actors aren’t bad looking.    I continue to be in a state where my estrogen is in constant influx.   Watching some cute guys with awesome cars on the big screen would be okay.

Apparently, the box office and critics agree with me.
Ford v. Ferrari has an 81% on Metacritic and certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.  It’s last week’s box office winner.

—  Despite, culturally speaking, this movie features two white male actors about an auto industry that pretty much no longer exists for us ‘normals.’  Have you seen the price for a sports car, the few that are left?  Wow.

The other side…  Charlie’s Angels.
From what I gather from the movie is about good looking women who carry guns and wear high-heels who’s mission is to rescue some sort of mechanism that creates clean and renewable energy from being misused.   So, kind of like saving humanity-ish.

In this movie, we have women who have closets that would make Barbie blush (from the trailers) who do masculine things in a feminine form.  So, it’s kind of like female empowerment under a patriarchal gaze type movie.   It’s written, directed, and starts all women save for Patrick Stewart.     I guess he’s non-threatening enough but still has enough star power to be included in this type of film.

What we have is a movie that kind of sort of speaks to the MeToo era.
Exceedingly physically fit women handling guns to save the planet and help the planet by the means of rescuing a renewable energy source.

To me, this isn’t a feminism movie despite the female trappings.
If we substituted the women for men and closets for James Bond research labs, we’d probably get about the same outcome.  Without watching the movie, there’s nothing here that screams equality and WATCH ME.

I got more WATCH ME social vibes from the Black Panther.
I wasn’t even the primary audience for that.

The box office, again, agrees.  With a Metacritic score of 51 and Tomato Rating of 59%, it came in third place on its opening weekend.   That spells B-O-M-B which is something that the Angles were actually trying to prevent in the movie.    Kind of funny.

If we were to look at these movies from a purely societal culture view, or rather what celebrities and media would have us to believe, Charlie’s Angels should have been the highest-grossing movie of the year.

But… um… nope.  Big nope.
I guess it could surge in its second week, but that’s highly doubtful since Disney’s climate change movie, Frozen 2, and Oscar bait, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, is released in just a few days.

What does this tell us?
It says a lot of things, I guess, but a couple of things are pretty clear.  Americans love cars.   Movies that are, theoretically, supposed to be ‘woke’ don’t do well.

I also think this says that Hollywood really has a difficult time being feministic without some sort of glittered reference to the male society that they’re trying to fight against.  Feminism isn’t a woman who operates under a patriarchal gaze.

Rather, feminism is more about equality.   That’s not to be confused with matriarchy.

Since this world has never ever ever ever never experienced true equality, regardless of the time or culture (except maybe ancient Egypt) Hollywood and the society that it caters too can’t possibly portray true feminism.

But… they try.    I guess that’s what counts.