Alright guys, this one’s a bloody doozy.



Twitter – and we really do mean *all of Twitter* – is melting down right now because one whiny man-baby refused to review the new Ghostbusters film.



In fairness, said man-baby is a film reviewer, so this isn’t a case of a man bravely stepping into the Twittersphere and telling his 34 followers that he won’t be seeing the “all-female Ghostbusters” because you shouldn’t mess with a classic, or… something. (But not the women thing. Definitely not the women.)



He is in fact James Rolfe, a 35-year-old gamer whose YouTube account Cinemassacre has two million subscribers. And he decided not to review Ghostbusters, explaining why in six and a half minutes of utterly dire content.





It is pretty infuriating, and tbqh with you, we don’t really want to embed it. If you must watch it, it’s here.

But his reasons for not reviewing it centre around something he’s deemed “name-make”, whereby the new Ghostbusters is capitalising on the franchise name forcing all of us, for all time, to refer to the Bill Murray classic as the ‘1984 Ghostbusters‘.



Also Harold Ramis is dead. And Han Solo and Chewie aren’t in it. This whole thing gets pretty weird.

But the really important thing to take not of here is that while he’s trying to savage a film for not giving us the ‘Han Solo and Chewie on the Millennium Falcon‘ moment without seeing the damn thing, he also very, very specifically doesn’t mention doesn’t mention the all-female cast.



It seems like an absurd oversight when critiquing this film to not mention the gender-swap, but it’s in fact a very calculated decision that allows Rolfe (and his supporters) to fight off criticism by claiming, correctly, that he didn’t even mention the casting while simultaneously blowing on his dog whistle till he’s fucking blue in the face.



So, yeah, Twitter has positively erupted. It looks like the whole thing began with Patton Oswalt‘s tweet…

I really wanted to hate this Cinemassacre GHOSTBUSTERS review but I’m such a fan of noisy, thick-saliva swallowing it won my heart. — Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) May 17, 2016



….and escalated from there.



wow, wait until the meninists who are mad about female ghostbusters find out what MOMS are — jomny sun (@jonnysun) May 17, 2016

Hey males: Suffering from GRR (Ghostbusters Remake Rage)? Simply undergo puberty. If symptoms persist for more than 4 hours, call a doctor. — Adam Proteau (@Proteautype) May 17, 2016

I Refuse To Review The New Ghostbusters Movie. Here’s Why. pic.twitter.com/IJyqfBVJC9 — Ur Problematic Fren (@untimelygamer) May 17, 2016

People mad about the all-female Ghostbusters reboot are going to lose their minds when they hear about all-female Passion of the Christ. — Jessie (@NicCageMatch) May 17, 2016

You know which fictional character would LOVE an all-female GHOSTBUSTERS? pic.twitter.com/CkPa2RNaZZ — Brian Lynch (@BrianLynch) May 18, 2016

I give them the benefit of the doubt and assume all the guys refusing to see the new Ghostbusters movie are actually just v scared of ghosts — Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) May 18, 2016

Torn. I hate women but thought the Ghostbusters trailer looked really good. — Trevor Moore (@itrevormoore) May 18, 2016

the phrase “all girls ghostbusters” is an ancient incantation to summon defensive people on twitter with 14 followers — Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) May 18, 2016



Of course, this isn’t a one-sided debate here – this is Twitter. And Twitter has erupted into a giant civil war the likes of which it shall never recover (probably).



Labeling EVERYONE who dislikes #Ghostbusters as a ‘whiny fragile man’ is turning what WAS a tiny spark of backlash into a raging forest fire — Blake Northcott (@ComicBookGrrl) May 17, 2016

hating the new Ghostbusters movie =/= misogyny — Panda (@DrtyHippiePanda) May 18, 2016



This whole thing has descended into one giant clusterfuck where everyone is arguing with everyone about entirely different points.



Or, as you might like to call it, the internet. Fucking peace out.



Source: YouTube / Cinemassacre.



Photo: YouTube / Cinemassacre.