Well they made this to retcon the 2016 one so we where right
shareRace or gender really doesn't matter its the script that matters. Calling audiences sexist isn't raising expectations too high as just alienating viewers by placing an emphasis on political views.
shareSony is sexist. They didn't acknowledge the supposedly great 2016 movie.
shareThey are being called that. The cast of the 2016 Ghostbusters had reactions basically saying just that.
EDIT: I shouldn't have said "the cast" because it's more or less just Leslie Jones. I offer this retraction after going back over the articles.
Lol. That's so funny!
shareWait. That means they're quite good at being comedians. For once!
shareLeslie Jones' tweet: "So insulting. Like fuck us. We dint count. It's like something trump would do. (Trump voice) "Gonna redo ghostbusteeeeers, better with men, will be huge. Those women ain't ghostbusteeeeers" ugh so annoying. Such a dick move. And I don't give fuck I'm saying something!!"
Paul Feig responded to Leslie, "Leslie spoke her truth and I support her. I am very open to Jason’s new version of GB but am also sad that our 2016 team may not get to bust again. We all are. We’re forever proud of our movie." Which, to me is so anemic. He kinda hedges his bets there.
I'll be fair: that's the one I remembered and when I looked up anything the others had said, Wiig and McKinnon hadn't commented and McCarthy said, "I’m for anybody who’s making movies. I talked to Jason about it, he’s just always had this idea, and his goes back to the world where the guys did exist and I’m like, ‘I want to see that. I’m all for it.' I say like, ‘Tell the story.'" Which is darned cool of her.
So it wasn't so much the cast as it was just Jones and (kinda) Feig.
Ah, thanks. Not as funny as I hoped it would turned out.
Anyway, I think it's a clever move by Sony. This way the people that mocked and happy when the 2016 movie flopped would be pressured to hype this movie instead to make sure it won't also fail, or even to go put their money where their foot is (dang, I forgot what was the real saying... but I digress) and buy tickets and watch it themselves so that they were right all this time.
Well played, Sony... well played.
I have to say that people really started to complain way too much about these things. I'm not defending ANY remakes, i wish original stuff gets made, but people just won't stop whining. They whined about Superman Returns, we got Man of Steel. They whined about Prometheus, we got Covenant. They whined about female Ghostbusters, we got a feature length episode to Stranger Things.
I mean, at one point studio execs need to learn they can't beat nostalgia, and come up with new stuff (Rogue One is heaps better than all the new star wars sequels), but people also need to just stop being crybabies about everything.
True. I like Rogue One too.
shareGhostbuster , Ghostbusters II and Afterlife don't take place in the same universe as Answer The Call.
Sorry to pop that bubble of demented logic, snowflake.
Oh please. A good deal of misogynists got some licks into the hate bandwagon for the 2016 movie (which is a garbage movie btw).
shareIt's got nothing to do with gender. The script was just crap. Blaming audiences for failures on the part of the film's producers is a copout, to avoid putting responsibility where it belongs: squarely on their own shoulders.
shareA feminist genre movie was never going to be a easy sell with anyone.
shareThose sjw morons must realise women pay to go and see male driven films anyway.
shareNO.THATS INCORRECT.
shareWhat happened in 2016?
shareThe all female Ghostbusters movie came out. My problem wasn't with there being women in it. It's that they all acted too stereotypical in the trailers. It made me not want to see it. Now if they had acted less over the top and more like normal everyday people in the trailers, I would've gone to see it. Instead we were shown a bunch of Stereotypes of women and some people involved in the film have the audacity to call people sexist when the whole movie was written in a sexist way.
shareAlso the film was tonally and stylistically different from the original to the point it was incongruent, the original cast had a very unique screen chemistry that the 2016 cast doesn't come close to it, the special effects look very Disney where the original ghosts are a lot more demonic.
shareOh. I forgot it existed ;)
Bad joke.
It also didnt help that any ciriticism was responded with "if you didnt like it its because your sexist and racist"
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