And it is super-telling (as someone who thought GB2016 was simply a decent airplane movie) that the reaction to this new Ghostbusters is so much more muted than the vitriol that greeted the all-women version. I mean, it was not a great trailer, sure, but the most downvoted clip in YouTube history?

Case in point.

I kind of agree with this.

A few opinions of my own.

The first Ghostbusters, was lightning in a bottle, and I suggest everyone find this movie and watch it with the commentary on, because it’s clear that this movie was also almost a miss (and Ghostbusters 2 kind of shows what I mean). Written with Belushi in mind, a lot…

I hate what happened with the 2016 film. The misogyny is awful of course, but it was SO loud it clouded the whole movie, and suddenly the enjoyment of a movie in my favorite franchise this side of Star Wars became political. Now I can’t like or hate the movie (I love it) without making an implicit statement about…

Oh Leslie, you’re poking the bear. A very misogynistic, overweight, smelly bear with way too much invested in an overrated piece of pop culture.

I don’t think the villain was meant to be a stand-in for the fans of the original, I think he was just meant to represent violent, entitled men in general. I find it interesting that you saw that portrayal and thought of Ghostbusters fans though.

I was actually among those few folks who found Ghostbusters 2016 to be quite delightful all around. I actually saw it *twice* in theaters, even. Like a few other modern “reboot” type things, I felt that the cast would do well to have another sequel to sink into it a bit more without all the expectations of “omg…

I’m not a fan of this “I can direct it because I’m related to the guy who did it before” idea. Ignoring the fact that even Ivan Reitman couldn’t make a decent Ghostbusters 2, it feels weirdly like a monarchy or something. Jason Reitman has a solid body of work (although so does Paul Feig, and look how that went), but…

I think it’s probably less the film itself and more all the shit she in particular had to deal with online for daring to be in this film and the fact it’s getting all buried under the rug.

I’d say the one thing that makes it a fuck you is the “for the fans” line. It suggests the 2016 film was somehow against the fans, which plays into the whole narrative that an all-female cast was just some publicity stunt.

Yeah, McKinnon’s bag of tricks is empty. Her Pelosi is her Hilary Clinton with a black wig. Time to move on.

Rock N Roll is so old, dead and gone, that Greta Van Fleet might as well be Civil War reenactment enthusiasts.

Talented as she is at some impressions and comic moments, I wish the Kate McKinnon impressions parade could end already. She didn’t look or sound anything like Nancy Pelosi. The sketch wasn’t exactly great going anyway, but she took me right out of it any time she appeared.

I continue to have serious concerns about the dance SNL has done with Pete Davidson this season (simultaneously mining his personal life for publicity while also clearly being scared as hell for him), and I am getting vibes of the late ‘70s SNL when several cast members were completely out of it and were…

Look out for Refrigerator in 2021, as the next part of the Whitegoods Cinematic Universe.

The fact that everyone is failing at making copycat cinematic universes is kind of telling of what a great accomplishment the MCU is.

Actually, the worst thing about The Village is that you figure out the “twist” about ten minutes into it. Beyond that, it’s at least watchable for most of its running length, which is more than you can say for most of his films. People liked his films more when the studios forced him to actually edit them.

I wouldn’t say Robocop holds up better (they both hold up) but it definitely has a structure and a premise which lends itself to being updated. You can’t update Ghostbusters because it the premise itself is dumb and not inherently funny. It was just a framework for a very particular group of people to do their thing.

I always thought it was weird that in Ghostbusters II the Ghostbusters themselves actually used a logo including the II. Why? It makes no sense! They don’t know they are in a sequel, and the sort of blatant breaking of the fourth wall as in Deadpool really wasn’t a thing yet.

I don’t think any of this was supposed to be suspect. We knew Good Place people are formalist and they always follow the rules. This exactly the kind of thing immortal beings who think like Chidi would do. They have time to analyze all the possible consequences and they will take it. The funny thing that the one…