True, from a purely marketing standpoint, Feig should have just shut his yap and let everybody tear him, his actors and his movie a new one.
That's not what happened. Sure, the movie was getting the usual contentious grumblings that follow every remake, but it didn't blow up until
after Feig started flappin' his hands and throwing a hissy fit.
And maybe he IS thin skinned in that regard.
He's thin-skinned in
every regard. He's a grown man with the manners of a repulsively spoiled child, and that;s why he disgusts me.
But at the same time I can't help thinking that he was warranted his verbal outburst...at least to a certain degree.
No, he wasn't. The people he's tying to bilk money from owe him absolutely nothing. He should be grateful for every scratched nickel.
Was it smart? No, not at all.
I don't care if it was smart, it was disgraceful behavior unworthy of a grown-ass man.
Was it stuff that needed to be said (and had alreday been said over and over again by other people in response to the vitriolic hate spewing from this board)? Yes! A thousand times, yes!
Horsesh!t. He took the 'geek culture' that had legitimate concerns with the first trailer that
he himself admitted was awful and threw them under the same bus as the 'a$$holes.' He deserves every single thing that came his way after that.
I can't speak for everyone, but I never defended the film itself - until I had seen it - but I did, and still do, pounce on people judging stuff they have never seen.
I judged whether I wanted to
see the movie based on the trailer. As with so many other remakes, I decided it looked like a pointless rehash in which I had no interest, and that decision was cemented by Feig's sanctimonious attitude. It has now become a point of principle with me
never to watch this sh!thouse fire of a movie even for free on a rainy Sunday. What are you going to do, make me buy the DVD?
It's the most stupid thing ever, and people were hating this film, en masse, long before it ever came out.
There's a reason for that, which of course, you're blind to because you never gave a rat-sh!t in a rusty tin bucket about the hate
coming from the movie. They were attacked in every form of media as the basement-dwelling virgin a$$holes of geek culture simply for loving the original and saying the trailer made this one look like day-glo garbage. They even pitied James Rolfes' wife simply because he refused to review the movie. Now, how the splintered
f*@k do you expect people to react when you talk to them like that?! This board, and others like it, is probably the main reason why the forums are shutting down. They no longer fill any positive use on this site, because people can't behave in a civil way.
F*@k civility. Manners do nothing for art. All they do is allow mediocre hacks like Feig to thrive unchallenged, and all IMDb is doing is capitulating to the banality they call a 'positive, useful experience.' They're dislocating their elbows patting themselves on the back over this, and it makes me want to throw up.
I give f*@k zero. It's like giving no f*@ks, only without the calories.
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ralph_2ndedition
7 years ago
I read hate before any trailer was released.
Before any teaser was released.
I read hate as soon as the first still image became public.
That's that.
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patrick_bateman_90029
7 years ago
Ignore Natalia. She's an absolute liar and perpetual victim for life who's had it out for this movie since Paul Feig was announced as director near two and a half years ago and has let her anger towards a frivolous remake practically dictate her entire online life:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082450/board/nest/235536103
There's a difference between a differing opinion and a forced one.
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Egon_Spenglers_Slinky
7 years ago
What a gigantic baby you are
"Absolute liar"? Like saying you're leaving this board and then coming back? Enjoy your irrelevance as long as you can - your pretentiousness masquerading as intelligence and culture isn't fooling anyone
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patrick_bateman_90029
7 years ago
Oh, don't worry about me. Worry about yourself, baby, and ALL that free time you're gonna have in six days when you don't have IMDb to give yourself a voice anymore.
Although you get points for using words like "pretentiousness" and "masquerading". I'm sure that 99 Cent Store dictionary is gonna pay off for you one of these days.
There's a difference between a differing opinion and a forced one.
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Egon_Spenglers_Slinky
7 years ago
'm sure that 99 Cent Store dictionary is gonna pay off for you one of these days.
Can I borrow your 1950's joke book when you're done?
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tzogas
7 years ago
Ignore Natalia. She's an absolute liar and perpetual victim for life who's had it out for this movie since Paul Feig was announced as director near two and a half years ago and has let her anger towards a frivolous remake practically dictate her entire online life
^THIS.
Oh, and here's a motion picture about my puppy, a tennis ball, and an inflatable pool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWUR-1p35vU 1 min. 42 seconds
**Have an A1 day**
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Final_Hitokiri
7 years ago
I read hate as soon as the first still image became public.
You mean that one of the main cast and about 30 other ladies all holding up a sign that said "Girl Power"?
Yeah, nothing alienating about that in a supposedly progressive and modern movie...
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ralph_2ndedition
7 years ago
I saw that image, but fail to see what is so threatening about it...
Must be frail egos a'plenty out there.
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Final_Hitokiri
7 years ago
Well, when the director says "We're making a modern and progressive reboot"... but you see 4 women, no men, and 3 white ladies and one black... that's not really progressive or modern.
Adding in the "Girl Power" is just a crass move on the Director's part to try and win favor with a very small, but very loud, minority group.
So not only is the concept lost, the advertising right there alienates at a minimum, half of your audience.
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ralph_2ndedition
7 years ago
What WOULD have been "modern and progressive" then?
Btw, I liked it, modern or not. Didn't change my life or anything, but I thought it was a fun couple of hours.
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Final_Hitokiri
7 years ago
Merely gender-swapping the characters around does not make a film modern nor progressive. They didn't even attempt to switch the ethnicities around. 3 white scientists form the company, and a black character without the scientific background joins them later. It's just lazy.
At a minimum, why not make the one black character a scientist?
Or how about instead of 3 white women, there's already a mix?
Or a combination of males and females?
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ralph_2ndedition
7 years ago
Most people that were complaining about the "gender swapping" were basically saying that they weren't interested when the original cast wasn't doing it and hollering about it not being right without Murray, Aykroyd, Ramis and Hudson...
Indicating that had Ghostbusters 2016 been even LESS different than what it is, that would somehow have been ok.
The "real Ghostbusters fans" obviously doesn't want new or different, and certainly not modern or progressive. They just want same ol' same ol'.
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Natalia-Alianovna-Romanoff
7 years ago
The "real Ghostbusters fans" obviously doesn't want new or different, and certainly not modern or progressive. They just want same ol' same ol'.
Wrong. Realisatically many of us knew that there was an expiration date on how much longer Murray, Aykroyd and the rest could do these movies. We were hoping for a passing of the torch film, ala Star Trek Generations. We got none of that.
#DontBlameMeIVotedForBernie
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Natalia-Alianovna-Romanoff
7 years ago
I read hate before any trailer was released.
Before any teaser was released.
I read hate as soon as the first still image became public.
The hate stems from the fact that the reboot was almost immediately announced after Harold's death. Basically, not waiting until his body turned cold. This was even before the cast was announced. People waiting all these years and were teased for a second Ghostbusters sequel. After Harold died, we were going to understand that a second sequel wasn't going to happen....then that dreadful reboot announcement came. This franchise needed a reboot about as much as Elvira needs a padded bra.
#DontBlameMeIVotedForBernie
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