Astonishing how positive most of these comments here are while the overall rating is only at 68% at the time of writing these lines (not that bad, but not that good either). I see some obviously blind praise without any arguments backing it up. It didn't have that much misandry, or I expected just too much from comments I read/heard, mentioning and discussing the "best" issues already. Although, I tend to not analyze every little sideblow and let some inappropriate jokes slide. But objectively spoken it wasn't a good movie if you see past the issues the trailer and cast raised months ago. Intentional provocation for better marketing and media coverage (and it sadly worked). It still had certain misandry aspects and scenes that are problematic. But that's how it goes these days.
Let's condemn sexism towards women for decades, fight for equality until the majority is on the same page, then the toxic new generation of feminists arise, burn all previous work down to the ground and simply reverse the sexism what is supposed to be totally okay. Just as it is totally okay to classify each and every criticism as "it's not about you[men] anymore", implying everyone criticising the movie is male to begin with, or implying there aren't strong female characters here and there already, doing it much, much better than this Ghostbusters. While the counter "arguments" are like "man up", "you're sexist if you don't like it", "you are just a hater anyway" and similar. All while women are pressured to like this movie because, well, it's an all female cast, you have to like and support it! No matter what. The irony in this is hilarious and really sad at the same time. Cinemassacre's greeting and while I'm at it: Comic Book Girl 19 and Alachia Queen on Youtube raise interesting points and I feel inclined to stress that they are females. So their opinion might be - for some - more valid than mine, because sadly I've got a penis. (*gasp!*)
But I digress, the movie itself is terrible, it's highly unfunny, sexist towards women and men, mildly racist and most of all incredibly boring throughout with a recurring Bill Murray, while he isn't really recurring. But the latter was known, the movie was said to ignore the previous movies, so Murray is playing another rather unimportant character and is only a notch to fans of the previous movies, nothing more. Very disappointing. The CGI effects aren't the worst (overall) but for 2016 mediocre at best. Dialogues are dragging for way too long at times, when the Ghostbusters were called in to talk to "the man" for example, the movie lost my attention for several minutes. Something that rarely happens. Mostly the dialogues are simply stupid to avoid silence/only exist to create noise. It feels like there's no real plot, nothing seems relevant with what happens in this movie and I don't "feel" the sense of it, there's no point in it. The character Holtzmann was tedious and annoying to watch. Some could also say McCarthy is playing the same character in all movies she's appearing in and they might be right, there's no great difference as I can see it, but I like her in most movies (Spy was very entertaining). I have no particular issue with her character here but I wouldn't say she was any good either. Still, most of the issues this movie has have only indirectly to do with the female cast and come mainly from the terrible, terrible script.
The plot thing, dialogues and Holtzmann are probably my biggest gripes with this movie and Hemsworth as the embodiment of misandry this movie has to offer (+the villain, but that one possesses his body for some time, soo...). An all female cast is just as interesting as an all male cast: not really, it's boring writing (exceptions apply). While I dislike a forced diverse group to not attract any kind of "haters" just as much as an all-x-gender-cast, I'd preferred it if there would have been more variety in characters and a somewhat greater care and respect for all the characters that were actually there. Variety gives a writer more possibilities to write a good story but no one had this in mind for this movie, apparently. Perhaps because the involved decisionmakers knew this movie is bad?
The only entertaining thing this movie has/had to offer is what happened around it. What was shamelessly done to boost media coverage and how it on one hand wastes an opportunity and on the other exploits so-called "equality" on the backs of everyone who wants equality ("gender war" as Comic Book Girl says it). Generally, this movie isn't really worth all the controversy, because the movie itself has no relevance and will either be forgotten quickly or be another example for terrible reboots that get ruined because of money and money only.
I prefer my media to be without prejudice against a specific gender to push an agenda, be it money or superiority over the other gender. Good shows/movies that do something for equality treat every character no matter their gender, sex, religious beliefes, etc. with respect. Ghostbusters (2016) does not. If you want realistically strong female leads, "empowering" women, while no one is insulted for their gender, watch and support shows like iZombie, or The 100. Not this money agenda driven movie that wants us to insult each other over the wrong issues to create buzz.
Review by ds1BlockedParentSpoilers2016-07-29T02:48:43Z— updated 2016-07-30T17:08:15Z
Astonishing how positive most of these comments here are while the overall rating is only at 68% at the time of writing these lines (not that bad, but not that good either). I see some obviously blind praise without any arguments backing it up.
It didn't have that much misandry, or I expected just too much from comments I read/heard, mentioning and discussing the "best" issues already. Although, I tend to not analyze every little sideblow and let some inappropriate jokes slide. But objectively spoken it wasn't a good movie if you see past the issues the trailer and cast raised months ago. Intentional provocation for better marketing and media coverage (and it sadly worked). It still had certain misandry aspects and scenes that are problematic. But that's how it goes these days.
Let's condemn sexism towards women for decades, fight for equality until the majority is on the same page, then the toxic new generation of feminists arise, burn all previous work down to the ground and simply reverse the sexism what is supposed to be totally okay. Just as it is totally okay to classify each and every criticism as "it's not about you[men] anymore", implying everyone criticising the movie is male to begin with, or implying there aren't strong female characters here and there already, doing it much, much better than this Ghostbusters. While the counter "arguments" are like "man up", "you're sexist if you don't like it", "you are just a hater anyway" and similar. All while women are pressured to like this movie because, well, it's an all female cast, you have to like and support it! No matter what. The irony in this is hilarious and really sad at the same time. Cinemassacre's greeting and while I'm at it: Comic Book Girl 19 and Alachia Queen on Youtube raise interesting points and I feel inclined to stress that they are females. So their opinion might be - for some - more valid than mine, because sadly I've got a penis. (*gasp!*)
But I digress, the movie itself is terrible, it's highly unfunny, sexist towards women and men, mildly racist and most of all incredibly boring throughout with a recurring Bill Murray, while he isn't really recurring. But the latter was known, the movie was said to ignore the previous movies, so Murray is playing another rather unimportant character and is only a notch to fans of the previous movies, nothing more. Very disappointing.
The CGI effects aren't the worst (overall) but for 2016 mediocre at best. Dialogues are dragging for way too long at times, when the Ghostbusters were called in to talk to "the man" for example, the movie lost my attention for several minutes. Something that rarely happens. Mostly the dialogues are simply stupid to avoid silence/only exist to create noise. It feels like there's no real plot, nothing seems relevant with what happens in this movie and I don't "feel" the sense of it, there's no point in it.
The character Holtzmann was tedious and annoying to watch. Some could also say McCarthy is playing the same character in all movies she's appearing in and they might be right, there's no great difference as I can see it, but I like her in most movies (Spy was very entertaining). I have no particular issue with her character here but I wouldn't say she was any good either.
Still, most of the issues this movie has have only indirectly to do with the female cast and come mainly from the terrible, terrible script.
The plot thing, dialogues and Holtzmann are probably my biggest gripes with this movie and Hemsworth as the embodiment of misandry this movie has to offer (+the villain, but that one possesses his body for some time, soo...). An all female cast is just as interesting as an all male cast: not really, it's boring writing (exceptions apply).
While I dislike a forced diverse group to not attract any kind of "haters" just as much as an all-x-gender-cast, I'd preferred it if there would have been more variety in characters and a somewhat greater care and respect for all the characters that were actually there. Variety gives a writer more possibilities to write a good story but no one had this in mind for this movie, apparently. Perhaps because the involved decisionmakers knew this movie is bad?
The only entertaining thing this movie has/had to offer is what happened around it. What was shamelessly done to boost media coverage and how it on one hand wastes an opportunity and on the other exploits so-called "equality" on the backs of everyone who wants equality ("gender war" as Comic Book Girl says it). Generally, this movie isn't really worth all the controversy, because the movie itself has no relevance and will either be forgotten quickly or be another example for terrible reboots that get ruined because of money and money only.
I prefer my media to be without prejudice against a specific gender to push an agenda, be it money or superiority over the other gender. Good shows/movies that do something for equality treat every character no matter their gender, sex, religious beliefes, etc. with respect. Ghostbusters (2016) does not.
If you want realistically strong female leads, "empowering" women, while no one is insulted for their gender, watch and support shows like iZombie, or The 100. Not this money agenda driven movie that wants us to insult each other over the wrong issues to create buzz.
[Comic Book Girl 19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn_vAcFGTJU)
[Alachia Queen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ0_Ke1-mYA)