Let's be fair, it wasn't *all* women.
They cast Chris Hemsworth as an airheaded receptionist, apparently as a big "fuck you" to the infamously misogynistic portrayal of Janine in the original that never took place. Or just because "MEN! BOOOOO!"
Either way, that managed to make it all feel incredibly toxic and passive-aggressive. Which was fantastic, because it acted as a temporary distraction from how utterly unfunny and derivative the whole thing was.
I've seen some really bad films. This is the only film I've turned off with 10 minutes left in ten final act because I was so utterly fatigued with how poor the entire experience was that I just couldn't take it any more.
(, Wed 28 Jul 2021, 20:06, Reply)
How did you make it as far as the final act? I watched about 15 minutes, realised the film wasn't doing anything for me, and went off to do something else.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 29 Jul 2021, 1:34,
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I like to see things through once I've committed to them.
But I'm pretty confident that the Ghostbusters remake is the worst film I've ever watched. I can live with bad acting, bad screenwriting, bad cinematography, terrible visual effects. But I don't remember ever seeing another film that has been so explicitly hostile towards its male audience while also so utterly misrepresenting it's supposed feministic values.
I think the thing that irked me most, though, is the fact that film only really exists because Harold Ramis died. Sony were already in the process of putting together a Ghostbusters 3. Bill Murray was having none of it, but Sony were pushing on regardless. Then Ramis died and instead of just pulling the plug on the project, they turned it into the fucking disastrous 2016 reboot and still had the hard necks to dedicate the film to Ramis in the closing credits, as if they hadn't been offensive enough already.
The whole thing was just a complete bastardisation.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2021, 6:20, Reply)