ANOTHER ONE:
TL;DR You're a misogynistic asshole if you think this politically correct Ghostbusters remake is a bad idea and anyway you're a slave to Sony, Disney and Warner Bros., you have to buy whatever crappy movie they put out there because they're the studios who brought you the good movies you like.
GHOSTBUSTERS FANS DON'T HAVE TO BE YOUR AUDIENCE. GHOSTBUSTERS FANS ARE DEAD.
Who you gonna call? Anyone but ‘Ghostbusters’ fans.
(Ty Burr, film critic for the Boston Globe)
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Earlier this week, Sony released a second trailer, and if it’s an improvement, it’s not enough to get your hopes soaring the way Sony probably wants. And again has come a wave of online revulsion, with hundreds of thousands of fan-boys and fan-girls mashing the “dislike” button in dismay. The YouTube response that went viral came from comic/critic James Rolfe of the entertainment site Cinemassacre, who sat coolly behind a desk and explained why he will not be going to see “Ghostbusters” at all when it opens in theaters.
“Judging from the trailers,” Rolfe says in the six-minute video, it “looks awful. . . . If you already know you’re going to hate it, why give them your money?” That’s right — he’s a movie critic who’s refusing to do his job because the coming attractions look bad.
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A lot of online posts in the wake of the second trailer have run along the lines of “I don’t hate the new ‘Ghostbusters’ because I hate women. I hate it because the preview looks terrible.” Yet only a fool would think a remake that starred, say, Will Ferrell, Seth Rogen, Jack Black, and Kevin Hart would be getting anywhere near the same amount of heat.
The misogyny is a particularly nasty strand of a generational DNA that sees the pop-culture touchstones of childhood not simply as movies to make us laugh and feel good but as sacred talismans never to be sullied. Insults against the holy Koran of entertainment. But who really owns “Ghostbusters,” “Star Wars,” “Superman”? It’s not you. It’s not even Ivan Reitman, George Lucas, and Siegel and Shuster. It’s Sony, Disney, and DC/Warner Bros.