Melissa McCarthy still stings from 'Ghostbusters' backlash: 'I just don't know why people are so afraid of women.'
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It's not fear, it's boredom.
shareSheer boredom.
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MovieChat Forums > Ghostbusters (2016) Discussion > Melissa McCarthy still stings from 'Ghos...
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Wow, she's really tone-deaf, isn't she? It wasn't the fact that the cast was all-female. It was the fact that the film sucked so bad, nobody in their right mind would buy the dvd's to do anything but keep the garbage bonfire going in their backyard.
shareI only ever saw the trailers but the only funny person in them was Chris Hemsworth a male actor who isn't an actual comedian. In a film full of comedians and "comedic actors" that is saying a lot.
shareGuys like Ghostbusters, Guys don't like Bridesmaids and My big fat greek wedding. Everybody involved with this mockery knew this but Hollywood has so much money they don't care about making good movies anymore. So now they just want to go back and shit on men because of their sjw liberal bias and that's all that this movie was designed for
shareI liked bridesmaids, despite an all female cast, and I'm a guy. I didn't like Ghostbusters because it was shitty,lol. Bridesmaids is funny as hell.
shareSame here. Bridesmaids still cracks me up. I love the airplane scene.
shareAll female casts sell better in chick flicks rom coms like Bridesmaids.
shareOnly guys watch movies? I guess I've been having some very vivid hallucinations for years and years then.
Regardless of the quality of the film it is extremely self-centered to think that your demographic is the only one that matters.
Anybody can watch anything but at the core Ghostbusters and Halloween is for nerdy loner men and Bridesmaids is for woman you dont mix the two unless you are deliberately trying to stir the pot
shareThat's wrong. For whatever a misfire this film may have been, inserting the one-size-fits-all "sjw" argument is weak.
Everyone wants to make Money over pushing some dubious agenda and be perceived as a failure. I'm sure a lot of people thought it would come across as genuinely funny and not simply a polemic against men.
I wonder if the failure of this GBs is because the original guys were all a homely bunch which is acceptable while none of the ladies were exceptionally pretty and this isn't what we have been programmed to expect.
TBH, I'm sure the film wasn't all that great but I do like Ms Wiig so I don't write this off out-of-hand.
I like her, but she is way off base. This things where people hide behind a gender or race to avoid any criticism has gotten really old. If you don't like a movie with a female lead you're sexist. If you don't like a movie with a minority lead you're racist. I am sure there are those out there that automatically dislike a movie for those reason, but most of the time it's just because the movie you made isn't any good.
sharePeople were afraid of the gender swapping because it was pretty clearly a gimmick, nobody cares if it's a all female cast, it's not like a feminist piece. When it's an all male or female cast people tend to make it a point but it was never a point in 1984/89.
shareJesus Christ...when are they going to stop with this shit???
Some people probably hated the fact that women were cast, and that's ridiculous, but why the hell don't these dipshits ever mention that a lot of people hate when great classic movies get remade, especially when they don't need it and are fine the way they are.
It's so easy to play the "nobody likes women" game to make up for your failures. It's an easy cop out. These morons continually harassed the fan base instead of ignoring them, which is a HUGE mistake, and the movie wasn't that good. They missed the mark on a movie that a lot of people didn't even want made, and all they can say is "people are scared of women." Seriously, move the fuck on. It's beyond pathetic at this point. How about this Melissa, DO SOMETHING ORIGINAL instead of piggybacking off a classic movie? Have women star in their own franchises. But wait, does that take too much work? You actually have to, you know, come up with ideas and stuff. Nah, let's just gender swap already established movie franchises and pass that off as original, and if they fail we can always fall back on, "Well, they hate women, so that's why it failed."
Now when I say, "Hey, I watched Ghostbusters last night", I'll have to remember to say, "you know, the original 1984 film, not the other one." There should only be one "Ghostbusters". It's annoying.
These whack jobs are completely isolated and insulated from the rest of the world. They don't understand anything about the normal people who pay taxes to run the country and buy tickets to build their mansions.
Hollywood always has and always will be a business. Know your customer. If your product didn't make money. Your product was shit. End of story.
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