I understand the frustration with a female Thor but the situations are completely different. This team of female ghostbusters are different characters from the original team of male ghostbusters. It's not just replacing the men with women, it's about going a new direction with unique and intriguing characters.
Also whoever says Melissa McCarthy is unfunny is ****ing delusional
What exactly do you find so stimulating about her white, trailer trash comedy? Why does constant swearing make you laugh, because that's all she does? If I see McCarthys name on a movie, that's my cue to skip it.
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If the only reason you dislike what we've seen of the film so far is that the all-male cast was replaced with an all-female one, then frankly you're the type of person that this film is going out of its way to shit on anyway.
"It looks unfunny/boring/cheesy/whatever" is a valid criticism, "muh boys' club" is silly.
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Jane Foster isn't Thor Odinson. I mean, you could argue that they're both just replacing someone in a role.
Eh, either way it doesn't matter.
I tend to enjoy McCarthy's crude humour, but the dialogue in that trailer alone... Ugh. I really hope it's just a badly cut trailer, and the next one we get is more encouraging. I also wonder if Hemsworth is going to do anything more than what Janine did in the original.
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My concern with the movie is the choice of casting, not the fact these new Ghostbusters are women. Nothing about the job says it's male exclusive. These wouldn't even be the first Ghostbusting women in the franchise. Ladies and gentlemen, let me take you back to 1997 to a show that continued canonically after the movies.
Notice the fourth member? Yeah, a woman.
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After the original Ghostbusters disbanded, Egon was looking for a new team to mentor and one of those recruits was a woman named Kylie Griffin considered among many fans as the best character in the show. There were even times in said show when Janine the receptionist would don a suit and assist in ghost busting from time to time and that never drew controversy so everybody acting like all men criticizing the trailer are sexist can kindly piss off.
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I liked Extreme Ghostbusters, and I did bring up that there was a fourth member who was female somewhere...I did bring it up with my sister since she was happy about a female team
For some reason I liked both Ghostbusters 1 AND 2. I just never got the hatred that the sequel gets. Was it better then the first movie? No, but then most sequels do not surpass the original.
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I was really hopeful for this movie until i saw the trailer. Aside from the the blonde actress, the cast looks as though they completely missed the mark. I like McCarthy but it looks like she's playing the same exact character that she always plays and that's not a character i want to see in, ghostbusters. The movie looks like nothing but a script full of dull one liners and bad jokes.
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