$46 million and a #2 opening for a film that costs so much to make and market (gotta be one of the highest budgeted comedies ever) *and* benefited from more free publicity than any other film this year? Sorry, AV Club, GHOSTBUSTERS is a flop.

The only original-cast cameo that was interesting at all was Sigourney Weaver's, and I wonder if there is any plan to bring her back as a full-fledged supporting character in the sequel.

Aykroyd's is fine, but it comes at a bad time in the movie when the story should be moving forward and not stopping for 40 seconds to get a cameo in. What Feig should have done is given Aykroyd, for instance, Ed Begley Jr.'s role and made him part of the story.

Well, it isn't acting nor is it writing.

Jamie Lee Curtis got pissed off on the NEW GIRL set, because they made her stand in front of a camera and repeat lines that were shouted to her from off-camera. She believes that's why they never asked her to come back.

When is someone going to address the inadequacy of Kristen Wiig's wig, which someone must have stolen from Julianna Margulies' trailer?

And yet it was somehow more dignified than Bill Murray's cameo.

That is exactly where the character came from. Winston was not originally in the film, but was added because the characters needed an audience surrogate to explain the gadgets and backstory to.

You do have a point.

Wiig's wig is another matter. Did she borrow it from Julianna Margulies?

It doesn't help that Hemsworth has no flair for comedy. But the role is terribly written (as they all are). Writing "dumb" characters is fun, but the danger is when they become so dumb they're no longer believable. CHEERS writers once made Coach so dumb, he didn't know how to use a telephone, which is when they…

It's about time somebody made a GHOSTBUSTERS movie with the queef jokes that were sadly missing from the original.

Aren't you? There is no dialogue stating Hudson is not a partner equal to the others, and the film indicates that he is, so why not read it that way?

Well, I guess you can choose to read it that way if you prefer being angry.

Who's to say they didn't make him a partner? There's no evidence they didn't, and from what we see on screen, it sure seems like they did. Maybe GHOSTBUSTERS II makes it more clear one way or the other. And I certainly see no signs of intellectual inferiority

They weren't all equal partners?

I don't think there's evidence of that.

So true. Nobody will be talking about this film 30 years from now. I don't think anybody will be talking about any 2016 film in 30 years except maybe the STAR WARS sequel/prequel/whatever.

What kind of kid knows what a ghost BJ is? I don't see how that would affect little kids at all.

If that's a Bible, read it. If that's a gun, you drop it.