Posted: Jul 20, 2016 8:04 pm
Briton wrote:Animavore wrote:So has anyone actually seen this? It seems impossible to get an unbiased opinion. On the one hand you have the haters who decided they were going to hate before it even came out; so their opinion is worthless. On the other you have the people who said they were going to watch it, sticking it to the haters; so their opinion isn't quite valid either.
This is the second movie this year this has happened (the other was BvS).
Quite an interesting slant on that when John Ladarola compares the Ghostbusters thing to attitudes towards Hillary Clinton. From 3:45.
It's a pretty crappy point. Plenty of people have torn this movie a new asshole without being racist.
On the other hand, the movie seems to be extremely racist as well as full of hatred towards men.
The comparison works much better on a different level: Just like Hillary Clinton and her supporters and staff attack critics by labeling them as misogynists, people are attempting to label critics of the apparently crappy new GB movie misogynists as well. Neither of these can handle the actual valid criticism, so they resort to attacking critics by labeling them and strawmanning them to hell and back.
Clinton doesn't suck because she's a woman. She sucks because of her crappy policies.
GB doesn't suck because the lead cast are all women. It sucks because it's a badly done movie. It gets worse because they took the GB brand and produced a crappy flick with extremely primitive humor and crappy acting which shits all over the original.