Ghostbusters reboot cast announced

[Jerm]

Your new Ghostbusters are....

Kristen Wiig
Melissa McCarthy
Kate McKinnon
Leslie Jones

http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/entry/view/id/903196

Just knew McCarthy and Wiig would be in this...****ing kill me now.

How long until Kevin Hart is announced as Slimer?

[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.

[Chieficus]

Sigh

The new trailer cut with "more Chris" is even worse.

[lcarus]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

There wasn't one joke that I even slightly chuckled at.

What about the part where the dumb chick has that really silly purple wig on? TAHAHA THAT WAS SO FUNNY!!!@!! A SILLY PURPLE WIG!! AND THEN SHE SAYS "Is it the wig???" TEEHEEHEE!













**** this shit. Give me my Hi-C flavor and then burn this shit.

[InChiefsHeaven]

Originally Posted by Chieficus

Sigh

The new trailer cut with "more Chris" is even worse.

Here you go if you can stomach it:




This really pisses me off. They are absolutely destroying a classic...pointlessly.

[InChiefsHeaven]

Originally Posted by lcarus

What about the part where the dumb chick has that really silly purple wig on? TAHAHA THAT WAS SO FUNNY!!!@!! A SILLY PURPLE WIG!! AND THEN SHE SAYS "Is it the wig???" TEEHEEHEE!



**** this shit. Give me my Hi-C flavor and then burn this shit.

The new trailer:

"OK, I don't know if its a race thing or a woman thing, but I'm pissed off."

BWAHAHAHAHHHHAAAAA...

[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!]

I made it better: http://bennyhillthis.com/?v=h8Lt02D6xno

[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

[Chieficus]

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

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

Hmmm... didn't know that. Thanks!

Yeah, the first movie he was presented mostly as a guy who came in looking for a paycheck. I forget the exact line, but he said something along the lines of: "I'll believe anything you tell me as long as a paycheck is involved." But it still didn't result in a dumbed down character.

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by InChiefsHell

Here you go if you can stomach it:




This really pisses me off. They are absolutely destroying a classic...pointlessly.

The makers of Fantastic Four are loving this.

[Barret]

Found on the new Ghostbusters trailer

[Beef Supreme]

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...

Wow, you spent way more time analyzing the suck of this movie than I would care to. I just watched about half the trailer and said "nope."

[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...

I think it's "the power of pain compels you!" Who the hell is Penny?

[lawrenceRaider]

Originally Posted by InChiefsHell

Here you go if you can stomach it:




This really pisses me off. They are absolutely destroying a classic...pointlessly.

I didn't think they could make it look worse than they did in the first trailer, but they have suckceeded.