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I looks fucking terrible, that's without the obvious feminist/Social Justice Warrior pandering, it just looks bad. The pandering makes it even worse.
Personally, I think they've gone about it the wrong way, and tried too hard to attempt to recreate and modernise, as opposed to evolve, it's 30 years since the original, they can get really creative with the "science" behind it.
If I was writing it, I'd have it where they have to face the backlash that this film is getting "Female Ghostbusters?! What the fuck is this shit, how are these women going to be the Ghostbusters". But they just happen to be the current incarnation, the original, and beloved Ghostbusters have retired or passed away, and there have been others come and go, and these are who we have. They have Government funding to really explore the paranormal and come up with new weaponry etc.
As for the story, they play into the sheer number of "Ghost Hunting" shows that are on TV, parody them. Like have Kristen Wiig watching one of them, and the guy on screen is pissing himself in fear, and she's there, exasperated saying "But there's nothing there!" and she'd be right, there was nothing there, because the shows are actually being used to make people believe that there are no Ghosts, and the Ghostbusters are a fraud, they're being put there by the villain in an effort to overrun the city with ghosts.
So, with these shows making people think that all of this is bullshit, pressure is put on the government to cut their funding, because they're wasting money that needs to go to schools, hospitals and the infrastucture, instead of some hocus pocus Hollywood bullshit that doesn't exist, and the Government have no choice but to cut the funding, the Ghostbusters are not only out of business, but they're a public laughing stock.
They can't get work in the sciences, because who's gonna hire one of those crazy ghost ladies, they can't even leave their house without being laughed at. And that's when the ghosts start to take over, before you know it, the entire city is over run with ghosts, and there's nobody around to deal with them. Then Kristen Wiig looks at the old Ghostbusters website, just as an e-mail is recieved, she opens it saying "Meet me at Ghostbusters HQ, bring the others". As they're waiting around, in walks Dan Aykroyd, and gives them The Rocky Speech, "We didn't have Government Funding when we caught the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, nor did we have Government funding when we brought the Statue of Liberty to life. People thought we were a joke when it first started, until we helped them. I see what's happening, you need to do something about it", instead of all the fancy gadgetry that they had when they had the funding, they restored the original equipment, they used what they had in the lab to create something new, and now here they come, the new Ghostbusters, and they're gonna kick somebody's ass.
But, that's just me, doesn't matter in the end.
Personally, I think they've gone about it the wrong way, and tried too hard to attempt to recreate and modernise, as opposed to evolve, it's 30 years since the original, they can get really creative with the "science" behind it.
If I was writing it, I'd have it where they have to face the backlash that this film is getting "Female Ghostbusters?! What the fuck is this shit, how are these women going to be the Ghostbusters". But they just happen to be the current incarnation, the original, and beloved Ghostbusters have retired or passed away, and there have been others come and go, and these are who we have. They have Government funding to really explore the paranormal and come up with new weaponry etc.
As for the story, they play into the sheer number of "Ghost Hunting" shows that are on TV, parody them. Like have Kristen Wiig watching one of them, and the guy on screen is pissing himself in fear, and she's there, exasperated saying "But there's nothing there!" and she'd be right, there was nothing there, because the shows are actually being used to make people believe that there are no Ghosts, and the Ghostbusters are a fraud, they're being put there by the villain in an effort to overrun the city with ghosts.
So, with these shows making people think that all of this is bullshit, pressure is put on the government to cut their funding, because they're wasting money that needs to go to schools, hospitals and the infrastucture, instead of some hocus pocus Hollywood bullshit that doesn't exist, and the Government have no choice but to cut the funding, the Ghostbusters are not only out of business, but they're a public laughing stock.
They can't get work in the sciences, because who's gonna hire one of those crazy ghost ladies, they can't even leave their house without being laughed at. And that's when the ghosts start to take over, before you know it, the entire city is over run with ghosts, and there's nobody around to deal with them. Then Kristen Wiig looks at the old Ghostbusters website, just as an e-mail is recieved, she opens it saying "Meet me at Ghostbusters HQ, bring the others". As they're waiting around, in walks Dan Aykroyd, and gives them The Rocky Speech, "We didn't have Government Funding when we caught the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, nor did we have Government funding when we brought the Statue of Liberty to life. People thought we were a joke when it first started, until we helped them. I see what's happening, you need to do something about it", instead of all the fancy gadgetry that they had when they had the funding, they restored the original equipment, they used what they had in the lab to create something new, and now here they come, the new Ghostbusters, and they're gonna kick somebody's ass.
But, that's just me, doesn't matter in the end.
