Ghostbusters Salt - Pro, Anti, whatever.

[Beaniebon]

And on the flipside, can't you just enjoy a mediocre movie for the dumb fun it is? Instead of insisting it carries deep sociopolitical meaning and only the truly enlightened are worthy?

I hate how you have to intellectually justify enjoying anything. It's culture wide pretension.

 

[Ravelord]

After the prodigious ammount of misogynistic criticism this movie receive (even before release), coming and watch it should be an conscious political act by our side (he's a white male), no matter how bad it was. But even then, it's wonderful.

The little boys ("machitos in the original, literally translated would be "little machos") that tore their hair before this remake (and not before any other, of dozen that are releseaed this year) will rage seing that, despite their boycott, the reboot was perfect.

Most of the (previous) reviews didn't focus in the need (or lack of) to pick up again the franchise, but on the fact that the new version had an all-female cast. A lot of the comments ranted using the tag line "they're gonna ruin my childhood". I have something to say to these enlightened purists: if a new version of your favourite movie (that almost no one, by the way, made reference before they started talking about the remake) is able to ruin your childhood, your childhood was ruined beforehand.

The new GB is not only the movie I would like for my female students or children of my surroundings, but it's also the movie I would like for my male students and children of my surroundings. Because on the mainstream movies we can rarely see a group of women experience an adventure, using science and technology, being FUNNY. It's intersting how few movies have women on funny roles. I don't mean like "look how awkward and drunk she is because her boyfriend broke up with her". I'm talking about wild, realistic, transgressor fun.

We're in front of a movie were women talk about the scientific method, where the women have sorority as a flag, where they get their hands dirty, they fight, they chase (and achieve) their dreams. We're before a movie were women have sexual desires and they don't fear to prove it, to show it, to flirt, to make a fool of themselves for those instincts. We're on a story where the protagonists are survivors of social exclusion, and scientists, and FRIENDS. Do you realize how many movies are about male friendship and how few about female?

It's a film where a group of women creates inventions, a group of women make their own business, a group of women save fucking New York. Did we see any time on the movies a group of women saving anything different from a wedding party?

And I think we talk too little and we don't appreciate enough. The work of Melissa McCarthy.

She is the Queen of comedy. Not of romantic comedy, of Comedy. This woman is not the new girlfriend of America: is not Sandra Bullock, nor Jennifer Aniston. This actress is far, is almost 50 years old and has managed to become to the movie industry what Jim Carrey of Adam Sandler were on their times.

However, I have to give two cons to the movie:
-I would have liked that the only non-scientist wasn't also the only non-white.
-I would have liked that the homoseuality that we sense in one of the main characters was as obvious as the heterosexuality from another of them.

Despite this, I strongly recommend the film. And I ask you to go to see it. We need more movies like this. And the activism is displayed by spending money, not only protesting.

My commentaries are on italics.

But seriously, this review...



Edit PS: if you feel that this would fit better the GB thread on Multimedia feel free to move it there.

 

[Positron]

The new GB is not only the movie I would like for my female students or children of my surroundings, but it's also the movie I would like for my male students and children of my surroundings.

It's a sad state of affair that stupid people become teachers.

Because on the mainstream movies we can rarely see a group of women experience an adventure, using science and technology...
We're in front of a movie were women talk about the scientific method...

The "science" is pull-out-of-ass ridiculous, and the talk about "scientific method" is as empty as a man promising a rose garden to his "dear princess". Makes you wonder why women are so easily hoodwinked.

We're before a movie were women have sexual desires and they don't fear to prove it, to show it, to flirt, to make a fool of themselves for those instincts.

Go see some porn.

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

My commentaries are on italics.

But seriously, this review...



Edit PS: if you feel that this would fit better the GB thread on Multimedia feel free to move it there.

Did this nigger type that in Finnish and post the google translate results?

 

[Ravelord]

Did this nigger type that in Finnish and post the google translate results?

Nah, the original was in Spanish, and it wasn't a formal review for a magazine or something like that. Just a dude telling his opinion that then was shared by my cousin. So maybe on some lines I went a bit literal, but I tried to adapt it the best I could.

 

[ESTOY POOPIN]

i liked the blonde scientist chick

 

[ZehnBoat]

I find it hilarious feminists care more about cheap token "representation" than quality entertainment, they are willing to pretend they liked this mediocre film because the leads are women and one is a lesbian.

Gimme those sexy identity politics and minority labels.

that's what bugs me about this whole thing
instead of wanting and supporting good media with representation
they're willing to wallow in shit just because someone stuck a sign that read "MUH WIMMINZ"
they don't want actual women, they don't want female characters
might as well have a bunch of men run around with women's faces tied to their heads screaming "I AM A WOMAN I AM A WOMAN"
as these people love reboots and changing already established characters and franchises being gender or race bent... do they think minorities and females can't stand on their own two feet and should settle for shadows of DA EBIL WHITE MALE?

Why can't people simply dislike a mediocre movie anymore? Now they just go on and on about how terrible it is. Stop A-logging movies, it makes you look :autism:

to be honest, there wouldn't have been so much hate if people didn't make this a political statement.
it would have had the usual "oh my god all reboots/sequels suck dick ugh 1/10" shit
but there would have been a lot more of the "it's okay/meh" crowd

 

[Brian May]

What ever happened to just not wanting to watch a movie because you thought it looked bad? Why does it have to be so dramatic nowadays?

 

[Positron]

might as well have a bunch of men run around with women's faces tied to their heads screaming "I AM A WOMAN I AM A WOMAN"

Anyone who claims to be a woman is automatically, literally a woman. Don't be a shitlord!

 

[MysticMisty]

What ever happened to just not wanting to watch a movie because you thought it looked bad? Why does it have to be so dramatic nowadays?

Because Tumblr is incapable of anything else. If they like something, disliking it makes you a cishet shitlord KILL YOURSELF!!! If they hate something, liking it makes you a cishet shitlord KILL YOURSELF!!!

 

[Beaniebon]

Because Tumblr is incapable of anything else. If they like something, disliking it makes you a cishet shitlord KILL YOURSELF!!! If they hate something, liking it makes you a cishet shitlord KILL YOURSELF!!!

I believe the poster was talking about people who were bitching nonstop about Ghostbusters 2016 and how it was a "Feminazi propaganda assault on their childhood", not really tumblr sjws (in this case, the opposite actually)

 

[AnOminous]

I believe the poster was talking about people who were bitching nonstop about Ghostbusters 2016 and how it was a "Feminazi propaganda assault on their childhood", not really tumblr sjws (in this case, the opposite actually)

Those were the same idiots who were screaming about Star Wars because they were triggered by the sight of a black man. They had no impact on anything.

The vast majority of people just thought it looked like a shitty movie, which is exactly what it turned out to be.

Most of the people tumblr and shitty journalists and the shitty director and shitty actors were screaming at were in the latter category.

 

[ESTOY POOPIN]

I was really sad it turned out like that but like all hollywood movies, what you don't want to be bad probably will be