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Did they really had to make teenage Phoebe Spengler so annoying?


Gosh. That was a bit too much. Even Finn Wolfhard was not as annoying and they basically pushed him to corner making him a background character. While Phoebe (Mckenna Grace) was made a lead. And actress was good with what she had to work with. But character was so annoying.

Specially that nonsense when that idiot got out of her body "to hang out with her ghost friend". Good God.

I hated her.

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I haven’t seen any of these new Ghostbusters movies but I get the impression she is like Wesley Crusher in TNG.

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I LIKED HER IN AFTERLIFE...I HAVE NOT SEEN FROZEN EMPIRE YET.

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She is a teenage girl that was playing a teenage girl. Anyone who has ever spent a significant amount of time with teenage girls knows they can be annoying, so the portrayal was realistic in that sense.

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And anyone who has spent a significant amount of time with teenage girls will not want to experience more of that in their entertainment time.

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I didn't find her annoying. I thought she was quite likeable and charming.

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Probably the worst thing about the film.

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Not sure if this counts as a defence or not, but I got the strong impression that the implication was she was crushing on the ghost really hard, and wanted to be a ghost so she could kiss her or something. I say it's not really a defense because I'm so glad they didn't do that it would have been awful. No doubt they're going to save the 'reveal' she's non-binary transexual or whatever for the next one.

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I don't think there would be another one. As this is one is flopping.

It has a budget of 100 millions. And who knows how much on promotion. And only made 90 millions. And next one will make even less. There is no audience for that.

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I gave up on this concept years ago

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