I don’t think you understand what ageist means. It infers being prejudiced towards someone because they’re old. No one did that. I never remarked on anything else, and this-

They can’t describe why they think a decent movie is bad, because it’s not. They can though, go through it with a pedantically fine tooth comb that many beloved films wouldn’t stand up to, because they made their mind up to hate this film months ago.

Again, ‘a couple of examples’ is very vague. There is a singular poor motivation in the movie, and that’s Bats’ ‘mommy?’ turnaround at the end. Maybe that gets rectified with the director’s cut, which would explain the hiring of such a major actress for such an apparently small role.

Ageism? What are you on about? And I VERY much doubt you’re older... but what is this, a goddamn childrens playground?

No my eyes weren’t closed. What forum thread ripping into the movie because its fashionable to do so and further colouring people’s perception of the movie did you get that list from bro?

Nothing wrong with Wayne’s motivations until ‘our momma’s got the same name’; that was daft but in no way invalidates the whole movie.

I’m going to take it that English is not your first language...

“Anecdotal evidence is all we have. <— emphasize that period. your youtube proof is anecdotal, what people write is anecdotal, it is all anecdotal until we get real life numbers.”- More cop-out...

Then the bad guy wouldn’t have been Doomsday. Doomsday is literally that; the bad guy who brought down Superman. He’s a one note character. He has nothing more to offer.

“The motivations for the characters was pathetic”- at least we actually got some motivation. Again, Star Wars was very well received, and we had a completely unexplained bad guy... had to watch the BD extras to be told that he was generally abandoned by his parents and that’s how Snoke got to him. This movie, we’re…

“Anecdotal evidence is what we go by.”- No it isn’t, what a weak attempt at a copout.

“I don’t think that’s the case here at all. Everyone I know is giving the ghostbusters movie a chance”- Anecdotal evidence; head to youtube and watch some trailer reactions to get an early first look at how this movie is going to be slammed :)

Oh it made itself perfectly well understood. Far, far, far, far more than Star Wars, which did no much needed world building/character backstory, and people loved that. That’s not the issue here. People decided to hate this movie before seeing it. That’s the issue.

“The Android version is coming soon.”

If you know of Angry Joe, he literally thought this exact thing. He has worn a superman shirt for at least a decade. He was surprised Doomsday killed Superman, and that was his reasoning for not liking the movie. Yup. That’s how stupid deciding on a film beforehand can be, because then you have to scramble for reasons…

Nope.

“If you feel that “internet mole-men” making presuppositions on the quality of the movie are the ONLY people who disliked it, you’re flat-out wrong. ”

I haven’t checked it out yet, must do that soon...

And sometimes the internet mob collectively decides to hate on a film before its even out :) This is one case, Ghostbusters is going to be another. Doesn’t matter how good it ends up being. The internet mole-men have decided.

Thank god somebody said it. It had its odd moments and subplots that could’ve been cut, but really, it was a far better written movie than Star Wars.