Even a Village Voice liberal hates it.
I do know one thing. I always thought Whoopi Goldberg, was the ugliest woman in the US. Well, Leslie Jones, now has top honors.
As my late father would say, “Son, I could place her out in my cornfield and she would have crows bringing back corn, they had stole three years ago.”
Even a Village Voice liberal hates it.
I see the problem right away. The first three films are raunchy, 'R'-rated comedies. Admittedly, I laughed my ass off throughout all three of them. Ghostbusters could never have been a raunchy, 'R'-rated comedy. Feig was probably the wrong guy at the helm to try to dial it back.
I’m waiting for the “Hitler reacts to the new Ghostbusters” YouTube video.
I am getting tired of being told that if you are not thrilled about the Ghostbusters remake you must be a misogynist.
Most remakes are not any improvement on the original. The fact that someone is doing a remake at all is usually a clear indication of lack of creativity. The worst remakes are gimmicky remakes such as this where they recast rolls with different sexes or races. That is not creativity, that is a formula.
I fully expect that someday some idiot will remake Gone With The Wind with Rhett and Scarlett recast as black and gay.
The guy from Wreckless Eating basically said the movie is completely anti-male and sucks to high heaven.
ouch , that’s going to leave a mark
The early reviews are all screaming “stinker!”, for a multitude of reasons. The only upside is the hilarious Chris Pratt, who gets just enough screen time to break through the gloom, but no more.
To start with, the movie is extremely misandric, full of hatred and bile towards men. All the men within are depicted as “a-holes” with Pratt just being “the stupid one”. Even the great monster is a male, and they destroy it by all firing their weapons at its crotch.
The movie is also racist, turning the usually well spoken black comedienne Leslie Jones, into a gross, ignorant, stereotypical Hollywood caricature of a black woman.
The movie also breaks with Ghostbusters canon a lot, violating many of the “rules” of the franchise.
The trailers were terrible, the theme music just stunk on ice, the special effects were mediocre at best and unconvincing at worst. Even the poster was bad, looking like something from a horror movie.
http://i.imgur.com/CcrvBMW.jpg
But the best part was that, when criticized, everyone involved, from SONY, the director, the actresses, etc., came out to *insult* the critics as misogynistic and hateful. This is not effective “damage control”.
The budget for this nightmare is officially $154 million.
Release date is July 15, 2016. Be sure to watch this Hindenburg crash and burn.
The only thing more vapid than the trailers I have seen is this review. It is absolutely vapid.
Yep—I decided not to go after I was called a sexist for questioning why a remake was even necessary.
Marketing 101—It will not end well for your product if you preemptively piss-off your target market.
Hope this POS does the ol’ crash and burn at the box office. That’s the only thing Hollyweird honchos understand, commercial failure.
Racist trash film
four of this country's funniest women??? the only one i ever saw(that i know of) is the fat loudmouth and she's second rate at best... a remake that was crying out not to be made. fehIt looks like they pulled the article. Can’t disrupt the misogyny narrative.
Wish you’d posted the entire thing.
Pleased to say that I have no idea who any of these females are.
I bet they wrote out of the script the main villain, the EPA inspector.
When the pinnacle of cultural expression is a remake of Ghostbusters, it’s time to just tear it all down and start over.
