Review of Ghostbusters (2016) by Clockworkslave — 14 Jul 2016

First things first, I've watched it and its mediocre at best, but knowing that they didn't even attempt to respect fans of the originals is what makes me dislike it more.

They have basically taken the Paul Feig formula that he has established with the heat/spy and copy pasted Ghostbusters on top.

So instead of making a ghostbusters for fans, they made a ghostbusters for fans of Feig movies.

Imagine if they made a Spy sequel and instead of using PF/MM they got new actors/director and made it with a totally different tone and humor? tell me then if you would be upset as a fan wanting more of the same.

I have no problem with him making his films (i will never watch them) but ppl are entitled to enjoy what they like.

I wished they would have thought about what GB is first, then tried to make a good movie that fans would enjoy.

If it was good enough it would have found an audience, as well as pleasing existing fans.

The whole racial/misogynist angle Feig and co have been using as a deflection is a joke. maybe 1% are real trolls and misogynist, but they cant honestly believe the other 99% are all **** with no real concerns.

It annoys me the amount of disdain they had for real fans, why they felt they needed to stomp all over its legacy.

Look at SWFA, while it had some problems Abrams really had respect for the fans. They looked closely at the originals and cast the original actors while writing 'NEW' characters. The lead being a women was great and she fit the part, was no misogyny fan blow back. Its was a SW movie first and foremost.

Fans could see a genuine effort was made, and while there was gripes, it was nothing to do with Daisy Ridley being cast.

Bottom line, there is a PC SJW agenda in the media/hollywood at the moment (and gaming too).

And they will claim its because they're progressive, but being this heavy handed, smacks of twisting the knife and **** stirring.

If they genuinely had the best interests of female actors (all women in general) they would look to find the right people for each job, instead of shoehorning copy pasting.

Overall, they only have themselves to blame for the way the Internet has hit out at the clumsy way they handled everything.

Misogyny didn't make the GB trailer the most DV ever..........Colombia/Feig did.