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'Ghostbusters': How Sony Plans to Out-Slime the Online Haters
Hollywood Reporter ^ | May 25, 2016 | Tatiana Siegel

Posted on 05/25/2016 6:55:48 AM PDT by C19fan

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The original was a part of my growing up. Thanks to the Jezebel types I will not see this Social Justice Warrior version.
1 posted on 05/25/2016 6:55:48 AM PDT by C19fan
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Same here, I remember watching it as a kid on ABC Sunday night. The new one looks absolutely terrible and I’m upset that they ruined the series by making this. What trash.


2 posted on 05/25/2016 6:57:33 AM PDT by Gennie
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Gay love interest inserted to make it more diverse?


3 posted on 05/25/2016 6:57:57 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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I watched the first YouTube trailer. Most of the negative comments were not based on sexism, they was based on the fact that there wasn’t one scene that was even remotely funny.


4 posted on 05/25/2016 6:59:45 AM PDT by Right Brother
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I may, if I live long enough to see it when it comes out on TV. That way if I don’t like it I can change the channel with nothing lost.


5 posted on 05/25/2016 6:59:46 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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Bambi will find a way to make viewing in public schools mandatory.


6 posted on 05/25/2016 7:00:44 AM PDT by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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The only way to beat the haters is to re-cast and re-write it.

It’s not about women … it’s about these particular women (bad actors) and the horrible script.


7 posted on 05/25/2016 7:02:26 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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I love how everyone who opposes the Leftist PC agenda is automatically a hater.

“Haters gotta hate”

Too bad none of them seem to have mirrors they can look into.


8 posted on 05/25/2016 7:12:18 AM PDT by Maceman
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You could remake Ghostbusters with four male actors, and it would still suck. The original movie was great because of the people in it. They are not in this movie, therefore, this movie will suck.

Just as the Magnificent Seven remake will also suck. It does not have Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson or James Coburn. It doesn’t matter who they got to be in the remake, because those guys are gone, therefore the remake will suck.

I can not figure out why anybody greenlighted either of these films. They are both doomed from the git-go.


9 posted on 05/25/2016 7:15:02 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (New York Senator Kristin Gillibrand will be the next President of the United States)
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It’s not so much that they put women in the lead roles, it’s that they lack the imagination to come up with movies that are as original and entertaining as Ghostbusters was.

Sad.


10 posted on 05/25/2016 7:16:00 AM PDT by bigbob
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A couple things:

Is there no one left in Hollyweird with an original thought?
To REMAKE Ghostbusters is somehow considered a good idea?

This movie has all the makings of a box office disaster. The TRAILER, ostensibly some highlights is BORING.

Sound the siren. There is a BOMB on the way.


11 posted on 05/25/2016 7:18:30 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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'Ghostbusters': How Sony Plans to Out-Slime the Online Haters

Well, making a good movie would be one way to do it, but Hollywood has trouble with that.
12 posted on 05/25/2016 7:20:34 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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“vocal (and sexist?) foes of the female reboot”

So if I rebooted Thelma & Louise with two dudes, and women objected, that would make them sexist?


13 posted on 05/25/2016 7:23:07 AM PDT by Boogieman
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“The studio had switched from YouTube...” because fewer people will comment on Facebook than Youtube, which matters when 99/100 comments are trashing your big budget blockbuster I guess.


14 posted on 05/25/2016 7:24:29 AM PDT by Boogieman
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All the marketing know-how and advertising trickery in the world will not help a film if said film sucks so badly that it gives a black hole a run for it’s money.


15 posted on 05/25/2016 7:25:40 AM PDT by hoagy62 ("It's not the whole world gone mad. Just the people in it.")
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The trailer is awful. I watched it without preconceptions since I never saw the original. The trailer is just dull, boring, tedious..... if those are supposed to be highlights of the movie then it is a disaster.


16 posted on 05/25/2016 7:25:50 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary Clinton: Hamas puts its rockets and ammo in schools and hospitals because Gaza is small)
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minority?

NOBODY likes this fiasco except perhaps some butch man hating feminist.

Sony knows they have been saddled with a legacy steaming pile and are in damage control.

(btw this is the same studio that put out the same fake reviews praising their own movies)


17 posted on 05/25/2016 7:27:19 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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Agreed!

There are movies that are serious and try to present an opinion or belief like Schindlers list and movies that are just supposed to be fun.

Ghostbusters was the later.

Unfortunately, more and more movies are of the former type and I don’t appreciate being indoctrinated while I am trying to have fun. Especially when a ticket costs 12 bucks. I won’t be seeing it either.


18 posted on 05/25/2016 7:27:39 AM PDT by dhs12345
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“Ghostbusters marks the first major film to get a female-centric redo (plans for others are in the works, from Ocean’s Eleven to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)”

With any luck, Ghostbusterettes will be an epic flop and that will spare us from more of these franchise-ruining political remakes.


19 posted on 05/25/2016 7:27:40 AM PDT by Boogieman
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original movie had actors

the remake has actresses.

the change in the actor/actress is newspeak to push a leftist agenda.


20 posted on 05/25/2016 7:28:44 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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