Aielyn on 29 October 2014
| zarx said: Well if you can't have the original cast, gender flipping is a good way of avoiding unfair comparisons in the performances. If you tried to recast the same characters with modern actors it would just feel like a pale imitation. By completely flipping the cast you can at least approach it from a new direction and try and do something fresh with the concept. |
You do realise that they can change the characters rather than imitating them, right? They can be male, but different.
My argument is that having some women in the team makes sense, but having all-women seems like they're trying to make a feminist statement rather than a movie (note: this wouldn't be true if they were simply making a completely different movie with the same basic theme - the issue here is that it's a "Ghostbusters").
Other than that, in my opinion, this is just another example of hollywood having lost the ability to be creative - they insist on remaking/rebooting movie after movie, instead of coming up with genuinely new ideas.
