re: Dan Aykroyd Says New Ghostbusters Tops Original

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Plus Ecto-1 was an old ambulance...not a freaking graveyard taxi

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Ecto-1 was, in fact, a Miller-Meteor custom built car, using a 1959 Cadillac professional chassis. It had the combination body, with limo style windows. Could have been used as an ambulance or hearse. Most likely it was built for a rural area and served both functions (because of the limo style windows) for the same service area.

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Racist

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A remake of Barbershop with an all white cast would be terrible, too.

(I can do this all day, folks.)

give up the shtick

You won't see a single post from me bad mouthing female comics. I've never said women aren't funny. I haven't spent hour upon hour crapping all over Amy Schumer. Don't think I've ever posted in a Melissa McCarthy hatred thread. Thought she was actually somewhat funny in Bridesmaids.

Me hating this movie has nothing to do with women. I didn't like the stunt casting. When you do something like this, more often than not, the writing takes a hit. The studio just gives up on getting a good script and decides to cover it up with stunt casting.

That seem more than a little plausible here. They've been trying to write a good script for decades and suddenly we get an all women cast.

Then, we get the horrible trailer. Mainly horrible because of the Jones character but we also get a rehash of plot elements from the first movie.

Then on top of that, they decide to remove the old movies from the universe yet at the same time mentioning the old movies in the trailer.

Sorry but everything I mentioned is a negative and it has absolutely zero to do with any form of misogyny.

Oh and quit telling us to stop making judgments based on the trailer. People have been doing that since the inception of trailers and more often than not, if a trailer BLOWS...the movie does too.

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The issue is they took a property that had essentially a cult following and did the most obvious stunt casting imaginable and just replaced the all male cast with all women. It was a gimmick...is that not clear?

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But why do you care so much? You're making as big a deal about it as some of the people that you're criticizing.

Maybe Wiig and Co. just wanted to make a funny movie and they love Ghostbusters? Maybe Paul Feig just thought it would be an interesting take to have a female cast?

I just don't see why it bothers you so much.

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I just don't see why it bothers you so much.

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Films (and television shows that get film treatment reboots) we recall from our youth - that we enjoyed and give us positive feelings of nostalgia - when they get shite on by Hollywood with crazy stunt casting treatments like this, it's not impacting my quality of life, but I feel justified in getting upset about it.

Whether it's Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the endless mucking about with a Star Wars universe we were happy with, or the terrible, G-dawful, 2009, so-called "Star Trek" film or whatever bit of Hollywood sewerage they want to pour down the sluice and have us all lap up like obedient consumers - I just say, "No. frick that. No thank you."

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There are definitely dramedies with male casts that involve deep friendships and tragedy.

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Are they entertaining? Are they sequels/remakes/reboots of other films or are they original content?

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Are they entertaining? Are they sequels/remakes/reboots of other films or are they original content?

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To be fair, I don't think dramas get remade/rebooted too much. But off the top of my head--Godfather I and II, Boogie Nights, Dead Poets Society, etc.

Stuff like Batman gets remade all the time. Sometimes the result is great, sometimes it's not.

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And when they make an all female, all black, all Asian, all gay, all intellectually disabled, etc., version of Batman it will be terrible and I will say so.

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A more valid analogy would be if they made a movie called The Dark Knight and had it starring Batgirl. The women aren't playing the original Ghostbusters. They're playing other characters in the same line of work.