They know they’ve got a dud on their hands, so they’re trying to drum up a political controversy in the hopes that dutiful leftists will line up to see it.
Yeah, Mr. Feig. 4-Chan, the gamer community, YouTube, etc., are so dominated by the right wing.
Here’s a tip:
If you want to flip the characters of the original Ghostbusters from men to women, fine. Actually, if I had seen the trailer with the sound off, I’d probably think that the four women you picked looked like they would be very funny.
But if you’re going to declare this a chick-flip of the original, here’s some pointers:
Don’t lead with a joke about the bookish scientist woman getting ectoplasmic slime in her vagina. I don’t recall Bill Murray talking about his scrotum.
Don’t make the Ernie Hudson parallel act like she’s on In Living Color. Once you announce so obviously how PC you’re going to be, you really can’t go there without seeming racist.
“Yay! Girls Night Out Woo-hoo! We’re going to have a sexy firefighter because the men had a sexy... Sigourney Weaver?” Not Pamela Anderson (or Loni Anderson)... Sigourney Weaver. The joke was that Bill Murray was reaching way out of his SOCIAL CLASS, and that her possession was what made her so sensual. C’mon... Annie Potts was cuter than Sigourney Weaver.
If you’re going to write black girl humor as a white man, you can’t cut PC corners. You want to do an exorcism joke, you have to go to religion. “The power of PAIN compels you” doesn’t work. Girl’s gotta go to Christ. Oddly, the original ghostbusters reflected the somewhat unorthodox but sincere Christian beliefs of Dan Akroyd and the psychology department at St Bonaventure University.
The light show worked in the mid 80s coming off Poltergeist, which in turn was coming off of Close Encounters. The visual metaphor simply doesn’t work anymore.
The only good thing about the Ghostbusters remake is the return of Hi-C Ecto Cooler!
Fieg may be giving up on half the audience in a desperate move to generate interest on the left. Everyone inside the progressive echo chamber knew Hillary would be nominated this year. This movie was planned a couple of years ago as part of the year long “Year of the Woman” celebration of Hillary’s coronation. But they didn’t count on Hillary being such a flawed candidate. Now they have a crap candidate and crap movie to go along with it.
I'll watch it . . . on Netflix.
Who cares what this Paul Fag guy thinks. He’s going to choke on his own massive a stink bomb of a movie.
I can see where his attitude originates. He was one of the girls in HS and all the girls he hung out with dated those awful Cro-Magnon boys on the football team. No fair! Especially when he was sensitive & understood them so much better.
Hollywood acts like DemonRat politicians the way they use affirmative action in their hiring decisions and then cry racism/sexism/homophobia if you oppose their worthless "reboot" because the script is terrible. The "Fan4astic" remake was garbage even before their ridiculous decision to cast a black guy as Johnny Storm (and make him the "sibling" of the caucasian Sue Storm), but by casting a black guy, they were able to play the race card.
Now they're playing the gender card with the horrible Ghostbusters remake. They're also trying to fool audiences into thinking its set in the same universe as the original ("30 years ago, four heroes saved New York...") by forcing the original cast to make 5 seconds cameos as different characters.
This one will bomb just like the crappy Annie remake (and ironically, Cameron Diaz was the lone white cast member in that movie but her casting was the worst)
The best tactic is just to ignore these movies rather than protest them and let the movie studios play the victim card.
Oh my.
The movie must be a real stinker.
I have, thankfully, only seen a few outtakes of the actresses in the Ghostbusters reboot. They are disgusting, profane, disgusting, profane, disgusting, ugly, and filthy. I will look forward to NOT watching the movie. Knowing the previous work of all involved in this movie I can give the entire plot.
Lonely white women find stupid white man has a haunted house.
Man jokes
Lonely white women meet gay man who introduces them to big black woman to toughen them up.
Menstruation jokes
Black woman chicken necks and white women start talking ghetto English.
Penis jokes
White women rescued by angry big black woman who says “Oh no you didn’t” as she blasts a ghost.
Fart Jokes
Lonely fat white woman gets hunkie new boyfriend she meets through gay man.
PMS jokes
The end.
I hate Mellisa McCarthy and refuse to watch anything she is in. She is the most abrasively grading crude and obnoxious actress since Roseanne Barr, who I also hated and refused to watch.
That some people like her is a sad commentary on not just the moral decay of current Americans, most especially young Americans, but is also a bitter note about their complete lack of taste in humor, and what is genuinely funny and clever and bitig vs. the banal and rancid tripe that passes for comedy today.
A pox on them.
If you don't go see this movie we'll shoot the dog!
Talk about playing up negative racial stereotypes. Good thing it’s a liberal movie or someone might notice.
Have completely stopped watching Hollywood movies. For a few years now. It is almost as if they are trying to do bad work intentionally. Jittery cameras, super fast pans, chop shop editing, horrible dialog, terrible casting, pathetic actors, and on and on.
Reaction to Ghostbusters 2 script the guys found.
Big Bang Theory - Ghostbusters reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTpl65LWhn8