Darc Requiem said:
Soundwave said:
I think there's a lot of resentment against "feminism" from guys who have no shot at getting close to real vagina any time soon, sorry but there's been plenty of shit reboots lately, why such focus on this one? Robocop sucked ass too, so did the new Total Recall, are people still whining about those? The cast was not the problem with this movie, the script was.
The movie would've been poor with Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd or Channing Tatum and Chris Pratt or whoever the fuck "new actors" you think would've been so great because the script sucked, not because there wasn't enough dick in the film. Actually I thought the four actresses did well with what they were given to work with (which wasn't a great deal). The film wasn't bad because of the female cast, it was bad because of the script.
In any case, get the fuck over it, seriously.
Making a new Ghostbusters was never going to be easy, if it was Ghostbusters 2 wouldn't have sucked ass itself in the first place and that was made with all the same people. Just because you liked something at age 8 and was made in the 80s doesn't magically mean it's some freaking sacred cow. Newsflash: 90% of those 80s cartoons are pure shit if you seriously go back and watch them now.
Wonder Woman sure as fuck proved this summer that there is a market for female driven action adventure movies, you just need a decent script. So I don't think the approach was even purely wrong. Hiring Paul Feig (the writer/director) was the problem. Wonder Woman is going to outgross Guardians 2, Spider-Man, etc.
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Unlike the other poor reboots, there was concerted effort to insult and denigrate anyone that dared to dislike Ghostbusters. Sony, the cast, and media in general painted anyone that didn't like the movie as an misogynistic, basement dwelling virgin. Heck your opening paragraph is perfect example of what people that dared to not like Ghostbusters had to deal with.
People criticizing Robocop and Total Recall didn't face the same vitriol. I know because I didn't like any of those movies. Only with Ghostbusters was not liking the movie met with venomous insults. Immature people with an agenda just could not comprehend that the general public just thought the movie was bad.
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Robocop and Total Recall and basically all the recent reboots that have all sucked didn't face backlash because they didn't dare cast women in those roles.
The fact of the matter is the intention of the movie in a way was proven right this year with Wonder Woman ... big action adventure movies don't need to be a boys-only club as WW is kicking the crap out of Spider-Man and Guardians just fine. You just need a good script. Go figure.
Didn't some of the actresses end up receiving death threats? Really which side was being more immature here.
