Didn't hate it because it starred women, I hated it because it sucked.

I didn’t find it as bad as the whole backlash would suggest it is. But they definitely went about it in the wrong way.

Make a straight up sequel, with the old busters retired, and the ladies as the new blood. Have actual, written out, structured jokes, and not have most of it be improvised (that’s how it felt to me at least). And I’m sure the nostalgia goggles a lot of us have with something we grew up watching didn’t help much, either.

I think it wouldn’t have been any better with guys in the roles. The problem for me is Paul Feig. He made a Paul Feig movie, not a Ghostbusters movie. It doesn’t fit with the other two. The humor, the atmosphere, the characterization are totally different.

As a little girl I didn’t have any problem imagining myself as a Ghostbuster, or an Indiana Jones, or as a Han Solo. But it would’ve been nice to have more cool adventure type, female characters for me to relate to as well. So I think it’s good they’re casting more women in these big movies, but to turn it into your biggest selling point (over actual story and quality) is wrong in my opinion. I don’t want mediocre “But now with ladies…” movies. I want good movies, with interesting characters, some of whom happen to be female.

I agree, most people hated it simply because it was a bad movie, not because it starred women. I think Kate McKinnon and Kristen Wiig are great and very funny but even they couldn't save such an awful movie.

I gave it a shot, and enjoyed my experience of watching it on the big screen, but ultimately it was forgettable; I couldn't tell you a single thing that happened. That's mediocre, which IMO is worse than being bad. I don't know why they couldn't just have an original idea about a team of ghost hunters. The large number of ghost shows on TV seem to be evidence that people would watch a new ghost hunting movie. It's just that the original is just too beloved to be remade.

I personally thought it was really funny and entertaining. I enjoyed it even more than the original Ghostbusters.

I hated it because nobody in the film was black.

I didn't hate it because it sucked. I hated it because it was marketed like it's actually good, but it really was not.

I don't actually hate terrible movies like for example the Twilight saga, Fifty Shades of Grey or even Baywatch and CHiPs. They don't insist that they were seemed as bad movies because people are mysoginistic and anti-feminism. That was just an absurd claim.

When your movie sucked, well... suck it up! No need to pretend that it's a misunderstood masterpiece that was a victim of some kind of injustice.

Yeh I agree with OP, the problem was whole approach - writing and directing.

But I thought Kristen Wiig was funny, there were some funny moments for sure. Just not enough to lift this movie from the shithole it dug itself. I found it cheap and irritating, too over-cooked.

The original Ghostbusters was funny, but wasn't "wink wink nudge nudge" every 2 seconds. Back when writers knew how to make movies.

The Chris Hemsworth character, I mean... really? Was not needed. Perhaps they were aiming to please girls or something? cheap.

Thank you! The idiots involved in this film have NO IDEA that it had nothing to do with gender. It had to do with the fact that a.) they recycled the original script, b.) they did not add anything new to the story at all, and c.) all the jokes were old, recycled, and executed poorly by the women involved. That, and the entire cast was very unattractive.

The people in Hollywood really don't have a clue what appeals to audiences anymore. All they see is what THEY like in the bubble, not what's outside of it. Doesn't help that the Writer's Strike of '08 robbed them of a lot of creative talent, and it's really showing after 10 years.