This right here. Fan boys and girls just want the original property respected while making a product everyone likes. It's why suicide squad although critically panned is making a killing in the box office.

I think you drastically over-estimated the power of neckbeards... they didn’t keep people from seeing it. The fact that it was a very average remake that no one asked for kept people from seeing it.

The sad thing here is that once again Hollywood is taking away the wrong message (as are many people in this thread).

You know what’s funny about your statement, you’re blaming the wrong people. You know how a movie makes money; with a large audience and repeat viewing. 1. A large audience. Taking out the ‘misogynist fucking neckbeards’, women make up about 50% or more of this country. If females from 8 to 80 went to see this movie,…

Ghostbusters was awful and the force framing of it as a feminist thing vs manbabies or whatever is eyerollingly cringeworthy. This is no reason not to make women led films. As you said, the landscape is littered with terrible films centered around men.

If word of mouth was that the movie is great (which it isn’t, it’s mediocre), then the movie would have gotten legs, which it didn’t. The only reasonable pitch to market an Ocean’s remake would be to sell it as a great heist movie (provided it is a great movie) instead of making this yet another litmus test on…

Just wondering one thing. Does that mean that women fell for all the negative press. If you took out the neckbeards and it was just women with the purchasing power, doesn’t that mean the take should have been much higher? What are the percentage of neckbeards in comparison to the rest of the general audience?