the problem isn’t ghostbusters, the problem is the inability (or unwillingness) of male audiences to relate to a narrative that is being carried by female characters. male dominated comedy is universal, female dominated comedy is niche and even offensive..like a switch goes off amongst the male audience that says “this isn’t for me, it’s actively excluding me” and they can’t and don’t want to relate to it or consume it anymore. women don’t have this problem bc if we didn’t learn from a young age to relate to stories that exclude us we wouldn’t be able to consume almost any media at all.
tldr; ghostbusters is really good and im salty
“male audiences” - ALSO AT Halalbarbie. MALE AUDIENCES MEANS MEN. And couldn’t see your whole reply to my question because apparently you deleted it. or some shit?
Anyway, just because GB 2016 has a whole female cast doesn’t make it a good movie. Sony should have just left well enough alone and hoped to hell people would go see it instead of trying to force the Feminism thing down peoples throats.
Ummm, normally I don’t jump into a discussion that’s already heated like this, but:
I would genuinely like to know what about the 2016 Ghostbusters movie you thought was bad, or made it objectively a bad movie. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I’ll readily admit it wasn’t perfect, it had some facepalm moments, but those were only small instances in an overall great story. I personally found it to be hilarious, relatable, witty, decently plotted, a good addition to and commentary on the original movie, as realistic as you can get when the movie revolves around pseudoscientific catching of ghosts, and all around a fun, entertaining movie to watch. I’m not seeing any bad points here.
I’m sure it’s an enjoyable movie. And I don’t have a problem with that. It’s just see the same discourse I this post that Sony is using to justify it and it bugs me on an egalitarian level.
So your objection is not about the movie itself, but about Sony’s tactics in promoting the movie? You’re saying the fact that it has an all-female cast does not automatically make it a “good”/enjoyable movie - which is not the same things as saying that you personally think the movie was bad, in and of itself. Correct?