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Ghostbusters trailer is out!!

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BeyondTellsEveryoneRealFacts · 03/03/2016 14:44

www.facebook.com/Ghostbusters/videos/967382456649089/

Reckon it'll pass the bechdel test?

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Figgygal · 04/03/2016 18:38

Ghostbusters being one of my favourite films I was very underwhelmed by the trailer the ghosts looked too cgi and yup street smarts less educated black character was just disappointing.

I'll still see it though obviously

thatstoast · 04/03/2016 18:34

Placemarking for later as don't have time to read atm. My main thought is they all seem too competent.

PalmerViolet · 04/03/2016 18:31

(plus, this looks funny as fuck)

PalmerViolet · 04/03/2016 18:28

Maybe the power packs only work properly is you insert a dick into them? Who knows.

The original film was a classic of it's genre. I fully expect this one to be as well.

Hovis2001 · 04/03/2016 18:23

I think the trailer passes the Bechdel test. Grin

That said, I was a bit Confused by it all, especially the point the article you post picks up on.

But, yes, the reaction to the all-female main cast was very depressing. I had a friend complaining on Facebook that it would utterly ruin Ghostbuster's to have an all-female remake. Why? What about the story makes it absolutely inherent to have an all-male cast? If anything, having a same-sex group of protagonists makes it more like the original than throwing in a token (and inevitably sexualised / romanticised) female would.

GreenTomatoJam · 04/03/2016 11:09

I did think that myself.. would it really have killed them to shake up the racial makeup a touch.

I wonder if it's because they already knew that they'd be hearing nothing but criticism for the all female cast, that they tried to keep the rest the same - but then, my stubbornness would have said that they should just go for it and really shake it up.

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BeyondTellsEveryoneRealFacts · 04/03/2016 10:39

Bumps own post with article about the rather dodgy race characterisation (3 white scientists and 1 black woman with "street smarts")

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/ghostbusters-leslie-jones-character-criticised-for-a6909681.html

"Nice to see that in 30 years, the number of black people in a ghostbusters film has gone from 1 to 1"

Apart from this (and the bechdel test), i'd like to talk about the criticism in changing the protagonists to female. It's depressing :(

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