To think ghost busters didn't need men?

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It's a really good film. It wasn't lacking because of no menz. I'm sadly not that surprised about the backlash from the male half of society but why do they care so much?

The racist backlash against Leslie Jones is completely vile as well. She's obviously committed the cardinal sins of being successful, funny, female and black.

The film was hilarious, it really didn't need male main characters. Nothing was missing. Maybe it's that that's hurting a certain type of man's psyche and why they can't get over a great film without them playing a central role.

There was absolutely a male backlash. I'm sure most men didn't care either way, but there were orchestrated campaigns against the film from certain MRA groups. One of them hacked YouTube to falsely show the trailer as the most downvoted in history, and several reviewers and the film's director said they'd received unprecedented levels of abuse before the film even came out.

These MRA groups do orchestrate campaigns against women and against feminism, look at the Father's Day thing.

There is also a lot of gender bias in the movie industry and in the media. There was an article recently comparing how the media reported on Ghostbusters compared to several male-dominated films that objectively did a lot worse at the box office. A female-dominated film needs to be an unqualified critical and box office smash before it'll be regarded as successful, while many male-dominated films don't even break even and get middling reviews and the media still present them as being hits.

I hated the original Ghostbusters and have zero interest in seeing the remake (and hate remakes) but the extreme sexism and racism the film has sparked is disgusting and shameful.

The squash the tomato campaign was amusing though. So much butthurt!

I agree completely!

I loved this so much and my DH (who still hasn't forgiven me for 'making' him watch the Jaden Smith / Jackie Chan remake of The Karate Kid) laughed all the way through it too.

As a side point we both came out crushing on Kate McKinnon...

Was at a comic-con today and met a lovely group of ladies cos-playing as the Ghostbusters. They were great fun and fab to talk to.

I hate reboots.... But I really liked Ghostbusters. I'm disappointed that it's had such a bad write up and reviews. It's a great movie - lots of funny moments and just enough nods to the original movie. I genuinely think that it was doomed from the outset, there were a lot of miserable old (male) buggers who would never accept it. Not everyone had to love it but I think it was pretty much written off before it had its chance...and all because it had a female lead. Isn't it mental that in this generation, we can't make a film with a pretty much all female lead and highlight that very fact?!

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It didn't help that the film makers said that anyone that didn't like is was sexist (paraphrasing)

As for no sexism, I'm not sure that you can say that as they had a thick hot guy, the villain was male and bitchy mayor's PA.

That aside it could have been a good film.

I watched the original film but I am not going to see this remake. I think it is all a bit tokenistic to be honest.

if you want to make a film with an all female lead cast then why not write something for them specifically. not a sloppy seconds from a leading male cast film.

it all seems a bit lazy to me and just shows what a crap time women in films have as opposed to their male counterparts.

if you went and enjoyed it good for you. I don't feel strongly enough to make a massive fuss, just don't like crumbs from the mens table.

and if I get called a sexist by the film makers - so what - I have been called worse.

lets see the same film makers write a new production with some good strong female leads.

if you want to make a film with an all female lead cast then why not write something for them specifically. not a sloppy seconds from a leading male cast film.

Unfortunately there is a reason: because it's about a billion times harder to get an original screenplay made than a remake or a sequel. It's stupid, because (imo) what people most want is original stories. And a lot of studios and industry people will not touch anything female-led except romcoms. I've been involved in projects where directors or prod is have said "I'll do it if you add a male protagonist.

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Personally i would have been negative about it just because it's a remake (same as i feel about the new Point Break) but Ghostbusters is worse as it comes across as "look a remake but it different as it has females". Would have been more impressed if they had made it as a sequel with a different story and introduced as the new generation team.

I was expecting to hate it but absolutely loved it! Laughed like a fucking drain, both me and DH did!

Chris Hemsworth was comedy gold and I have an massive girl crush on Kate McKinnon too. She is gorgeous!