So late to the party.

Finally saw the new Ghostbusters trailer. It looks fine. It looks fine, guys. It doesn't look any better or worse than any other rebootish sequel thing that we've ever seen. I 100% believe that any/all criticisms that are being directed at it are purely based on the fact that it has a lady crew, because if this was an all-male cast with the EXACT same trailer, it would be getting fast-tracked around the internet as a genius/hilarious remake and would certainly not be receiving all of the wet blanket criticism it's getting right now.

We can't expect the high-caliber level of Fury Road in all of the reboots or sequels that come up. We got lucky with that one. Anyone who was expecting this Ghostbusters to be better than the original fooled themselves into disappointment. It looks fine and I will probably see it because 1) it's filled with a cast full of hilarious women and 2) paranormal stuff is fun. It's getting shredded because people have the highest expectations for females participating in any art form and if we are less than stellar, we get nodded off as trout; whereas men can be a part of a mediocre performance and get recognized as being hilarious.

If Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte and Jay Pharaoh were in this cast and said the exact same lines, word for word, and had the exact same shots, shot for shot, this film would be celebrated as smurf and the internet would be running to see it; there would be zero mention of "it just doesn't have that ORIGINAL GHOSTBUSTERS MAGIC [jerkoff motion]".

It's disappointing to see the negative reactions to this film in 2016. Go see it and contribute to the box office so we can have more of a chance of diverse films in the future.

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