Just popping in to say I'm excited for this and the cast is awesome and I couldn't care less about the original GB movies.
Man, I like FOB and I love Missy but I just couldn't finish that song. That was a total bummer on different levels and I'm not saying that because I have a place in my heart for the original, it was just objectively bad. I'm sure people will enjoy it though, more power to them.
Not liking a trailer or having high hopes for a movie based on a trailer are one thing, but there's a ridiculous over-the-top venom towards this that other equally bad-looking movies don't get. Ex: That Zac Efron/Aubrey Plaza/Anna Kendrick wedding date movie looks like hot garbage and there's not a peep online about it. Ugh, I've seen that trailer at every single movie I've gone to for like the last four months, no joke. Still not sure how anyone can't see this and can deny it with a straight face.
I have enjoyed all of Paul Feig's movies so I have no reason to think this won't be good. The trailers didn't do much for me and I am not a big fan of Jones or Mickinnon, but I am sure the movie is going to be just as sharp as all of Feig's movie's.
I am the opposite, I don't think the backlash is nearly what everyone is making it out to be. Most reboots get some kind of backlash. There are probably some who don't like the all-female cast but I would say the majority of the comments I have read just state that the movie looks bad. The movie does actually look bad. Paul Feig is a talented director so I have no doubt it will be good but the marketing hasn't been as good as it could have been.
I think it looks terrible and I know I'm not a misogynist. The jokes are bad, they don't land, every trailer has made me cringe. I don't have to agree with anyone and nobody has to agree with me.
I can't take anybody seriously who thinks this movie looks garbage-tier based on the trailers. They're not amazing trailers, but they're not atrocious. They're middle-of-the-road at worst.
This Ghostbuster's is a reboot of a classic and loved franchise, while that Zach and Dave movie is an "original" script. I have a hard time believing you can't actually see the reason there is a backlash against Ghostbusters while nobody gives a shit either way about the other movie.
What about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Transformers? Warcraft? A third reboot of Spider-Man? Independence Day? Mad Max: Fury Road? Star Wars: The Force Awakens? Creed? All beloved properties, all got movies recently, some absolutely dogshit horrible. No other movie has received this level of vitriol. Why is this the movie to break records for YouTube dislikes and have YouTube critics decrying it before they've seen it? It is fine to like Ghostbusters. It is fine to think this movie looks bad (I have my issues with how people perceive trailers, but that's a different point). But to act like this is an insult to the franchise is just misguided. We are in a climate that just made a fucking Man From U.N.C.L.E. movie. Studios are buying properties and making movies. They don't change the quality of the originals. They don't change the memories or fondness or attachments anyone has for them. But to take issue with a reboot that's making inclusivity part of its aim that had already sold itself out to a shitty sequel, a cartoon, and a fucking Hi-C flavor is just selective backlash. Some people are upset for reasons that have nothing to do with the all-female cast. But the degree of backlash and much of the specific backlash is well documented to be born from cries of "PC" or misogyny. The evidence is out there and at this point irrefutable.
It is remarkable how long this debate has gone on. If the backlash was based solely on the merits of the marketing material, it would not be the most disliked trailer in history. In many ways, justifying and trying to explain away the sexist behavior of these people is worse than what they are doing in the first place.
Holy moly had no idea this was a thing A trailer played before the Purge and my girlfriend turned to me and said she couldn't believe how bad it looked. I strongly agree. I don't understand how we are misogynists for this line of thinking.
Think I misread some earlier posts that were directed at the mass dislike for the film that I thought were being aimed at individuals. Y'all carry on.
I actually liked Man From UNCLE, but I think your point was more who wanted that movie which plays into the misogyny and racist elements because execs keep making movies for white dudes even when poc and women and lgbt people are like hey we watch movies too look how much of us saw this movie
Yeah, I liked Man from U.N.C.L.E. too, it's just an example of how studios are mining any properties they can. They rebooted Voltron and Thunderbirds and they're rebooting Lost in Space. It's just how things are right now. You make solid points about the way that non-white, non-male, and non-hetero nature of pulling from these old properties as well. Mad Max, Creed, and Star Wars adapted well. Man From U.N.C.L.E. is great. I'm a big Henry Cavill fan and was happy to see him in a role that played to his humor. The Snyder Superman movies bum me out with how much they mute him.