At this point I feel like I have to eventually see the Ghostbusters movie just because of all the drama about it.



I mean its a franchise movie trying to reboot a franchise so they can sell twinkies and juiceboxes. Where they couldn't get the original cast for years because Murray is a nut to get a hold of since he has no agent and only takes scripts from people he knows or a 1800 number he checks 3 times a year and then one of the actors dies. So they decided to take a different approach and have a cast that targeted a newly recognized demographic of female viewers after the incredible success of Bridesmaids.



But the new promotion of the movie greatly differed from the original fanbase and marketing of the original movie whose exploitation is the entire point of remaking and using a franchise. Then people took to the movie to either use it as a spewing point for their hateful beliefs or they promoted the film as something that needs to be successful because of the lack of female leads in traditional Hollywood blockbusters.



Thats even before the movie comes out.



I mentioned it before in the redlettermedia thread but did Sisters or Trainwreck get this kind of backlash being that it has a predominate female cast? I know the genres are different but I feel like the buzz was pretty good coming out of those movies.



If this never had the Ghostbusters brand attached to it would people even care about it? Is there such an insecurity by Hollywood to fund a film today without a franchise that people have some type of memory of?