Ghostbusters reboot cast announced

[cabletech94]

welp, 2 and a half minutes that i'll never get back.

thanks, obama.

[Deberg_1990]

What I always liked about the original was the team dynamic.

Venkman was a really shitty scientist and skeptic. Stantz and Spengler were smart and took it very very seriously.

This makes it look like they are all smart and klutzy which is a boring dynamic.

[notorious]

Maybe the first time in history the plagiarized SyFy copy will be better.

[The Franchise]

[mnchiefsguy]

My God was that trailer awful.

[Just Passin' By]

5 times the new 'Ghostbusters' trailer destroyed the patriarchy

Who you gonna call? The new, very female Ghostbusters, that's who.

The first trailer for the all-new, all-female Ghostbusters is here and goodness gracious it is everything we hoped and dreamed for. In addition to being incredibly hilarious and visually on point, the trailer is also unabashedly proud of its four female leads and the feminism it is espousing. Don't believe us? We rounded up five times the trailer used proton packs to shoot right through Hollywood conventions about gender.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/e...orth/81258406/

[007]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/e...orth/81258406/

[GloucesterChief]

Originally Posted by Guru

As for point 2. The first ghost in the original Ghostbusters was also a woman, The Librarian. So, off by 30 years?

[Valiant]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/e...orth/81258406/

Only thing i got from the trailer was stereotyping dumb black woman.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by Valiant

Only thing i got from the trailer was stereotyping dumb black woman.

Sadly this is true.

Look at the original film again. Ernie Hudson wasn't doing a stereotypical 'shuck and jive' act

He basically played straight man to the goofy scientists

[Swanman]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Sadly this is true.

Look at the original film again. Ernie Hudson wasn't doing a stereotypical 'shuck and jive' act

He basically played straight man to the goofy scientists

Ernie played a perfect fish out of water character. In the reboot, the black chick will be playing a walking talking stereotype.

[Tribal Warfare]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/e...orth/81258406/

I hope it ruins Melissa McCarthy's career tired of seeing that unfunny bitch plastered everywhere.

[Gravedigger]

I still maintain that if they were concerned with equality between the sexes and breaking down societal norms they would've gone with 2 men and 2 women instead of doing the all female cast just to have an all female cast. If you want equality start acting like you want equality. This is like the Oscar's nominating no black men and saying they still value equality, and everyone loses their shit. I don't see everyone holding up protest signs and starting twitter campaigns with hash tags such as #GhostbustersSoFeminazi.

[Chieficus]

Originally Posted by Gravedigger

I still maintain that if they were concerned with equality between the sexes and breaking down societal norms they would've gone with 2 men and 2 women instead of doing the all female cast just to have an all female cast. If you want equality start acting like you want equality. This is like the Oscar's nominating no black men and saying they still value equality, and everyone loses their shit. I don't see everyone holding up protest signs and starting twitter campaigns with hash tags such as #GhostbustersSoFeminazi.

The all female cast for the crew doesn't bother me, but rather the fact that the jokes they've shown in the trailers have played down to the lowest common denominator. On the one hand they want to say, "Look at how smart these women are," but then they have them do the dumbest crap.

And in the original, Ernie Hudson played a nice foil to the others--no, he wasn't a scientist but he wasn't presented as this dumb, male bimbo. But that's basically all the trailer clips have done with Leslie Jones. It's like the writers sat around and said, "Hey, the black lady--let's make her as loud and dumb as possible, but she knows the streets."

So you get lines like, "The power of Penny compels you!" and "I don't know if it's a race thing or a lady thing but I'm mad as hell!"

I'm neither black nor a woman, but their presentation of her makes me feel offended on their behalf.

Yeah, GB and especially GB2 had dumb moments, but not at the expense of bottoming out the characters. They had the chance to do that with this, and show true empowerment: ladies who are smart and putting their skills to work to save the city, with humor mixed in. Instead the trailers feel as if they made the characters as dumb as possible, but then tried to say: "Oh, hey, they're smart (at least the white ladies), see all the equations they can do!"

It's insulting both to those they're trying to "empower" and to the legacy of the franchise...

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by Chieficus

The all female cast for the crew doesn't bother me, but rather the fact that the jokes they've shown in the trailers have played down to the lowest common denominator. On the one hand they want to say, "Look at how smart these women are," but then they have them do the dumbest crap.

And in the original, Ernie Hudson played a nice foil to the others--no, he wasn't a scientist but he wasn't presented as this dumb, male bimbo. But that's basically all the trailer clips have done with Leslie Jones. It's like the writers sat around and said, "Hey, the black lady--let's make her as loud and dumb as possible, but she knows the streets."

So you get lines like, "The power of Penny compels you!" and "I don't know if it's a race thing or a lady thing but I'm mad as hell!"

I'm neither black nor a woman, but their presentation of her makes me feel offended on their behalf.

Yeah, GB and especially GB2 had dumb moments, but not at the expense of bottoming out the characters. They had the chance to do that with this, and show true empowerment: ladies who are smart and putting their skills to work to save the city, with humor mixed in. Instead the trailers feel as if they made the characters as dumb as possible, but then tried to say: "Oh, hey, they're smart (at least the white ladies), see all the equations they can do!"

It's insulting both to those they're trying to "empower" and to the legacy of the franchise...

Kind of interestingly, Ernie Hudson's character was originally written as another scientist with multiple PhDs, etc. They never really give you his history in the movie, but in subsequent iterations of the Ghostbusters lore (novels, cartoons, video games, etc.), the Winston character is very much a scientist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Zeddemore