bigtakilla said:
Soundwave said:
They didn't really make it a "thing".
In the Ghostbusters movies generally every other non-Ghostbuster character is an idiot, because the theme of the movies (all of them) in one way or another is that the Ghostbusters are the only ones that know what they're talking about. It's the "us against the world" theme.
Look at the '84 Ghostbusters, Walter Peck (the EPA guy) is an idiot, the mayor is an idiot, the guy in charge of the fancy hotel they catch Slimer at is an idiot, Louis is a (lovable) idiot, etc. etc.
There's one specific gag that makes note of the girls being well ... girls and it's a one off line that's pretty funny actually and that's it.
Otherwise the movie is just about a group of ... Ghostbusters.
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Their more skeptics of the supernatural than idiots. When Walter Peck tells the electrician to "shut it down", the electrician was able to do it. When the city was in danger by the ghosts, the major says "get me the ghostbusters!" They are not idiots in the film.
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They are "blow hard" idiots. Ghostbusters is a weird movie really, lol, it's basically a frathouse movie (as Reitman's previous big hit was Animal House) mixed with a horror movie, and characters like Peck are basically the uptight college dean.
It's also a comedy so most of the characters are stupid/silly because that's funny. This is Ghostbusters, not a drama or social commentary.
