pokoko said:
Depends on who is saying what, and where. This was on the first page of Yahoo: Review: New 'Ghostbusters' an unfunny mess "However, although the new Ghostbusters follows the template of the original by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, the witless script by Feig and his co-writer on The Heat, Katie Dippold, has no juice. Short on both humor and tension, the spook encounters are rote collisions with vaporous CG specters that escalate into an uninvolving supernatural cataclysm unleashed upon New York’s Times Square. It’s all busy-ness, noise and chaos, with zero thrills and very little sustainable comic buoyancy." The Hollywood Reporter That's gonna hurt. On the flip side are reviews like in the OP, where the writer is clearly doing some social warrioring, so maybe that will offset things. Either way, there are going to tons of agenda-driven reviews from both sides, which is always annoying. |
Yeah, reviewing entertainment productions should be about the format and entertainment value, first and foremost, a lot of things are used as political spear-heads today, it does get tiresome. Hey, real social commentary, and criticism, with a proper purpose and depth, I'm all for and swallow whole, but poking around at every venue to make cheap points is not my thing.
And like someone mentioned above me; instead of doing gender-swaps, write your own characters and stories, or it becomes "girls can pee standing up too!", which is actually kind of demeaning (to girls) and not really a good way to move forward in society.
