Holy fucking shit!!! Just when you think things can't get any worse. Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Bill Murray turned up on Jimmy Kimmel to dance (yes, you read that right, DANCE) with the cast of the new Paul Feig helmed Ghostbusters. Namely Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones.
Check it out below and then read on while I do some Ghostbusting of my own!
Now, don't get me wrong. Seeing the old cast back together was spectacular. But seeing them stoop so fucking low? It was absolutely disgusting. Since the all female Ghosbusters was announced, it's being getting a huge backlash from fans and movie goers alike. And it hasn't stopped. Obviously, with the movie being released in a few weeks, Hollywood does what Hollywood does best. And that's throw a shit tonne of money at a problem to make it go away. How much wrangling and dealing was done with Aykroyd, Murray and Hudson to get them to jump through this dancing hoop?
Even if no extra cash is involved and it's just part of their press obligations, have they not got any fucking pride? They would have been better off crossing the streams again instead of this!
That aside, here's a movie that is desperately struggling to get any positive traction at all. So, getting the original cast back on board, in cameos where they DON'T play their original characters (Aykroyd is a fuckin' cab driver) and then get them to awkwardly jerk around on Jimmy Kimmel? Seriously good readers, I don't have to spell it out! Is that the only way to try and appease the fans, by getting the original cast, with their new minor, cameo roles, to do this kind of junk?
This is single handily the most cringe worthy shit I've ever seen. Nobody, looks comfortable. Not even in the least.
Paul Feig, what have you done? I've ranted at length on the podcast about this Ghostbusters, but fucking hell. Feig, you're better than this. Paul Feig is a talented writer and director. There is no denying that. And yes, it's a pain in the ball sack that people like me are shit canning a movie that we haven't seen. But the trailers managed to do their own shit canning. They were truly brutal, showing zero chemistry between the cast in awkward and contrived scenes. The trailers show that none of the magic has been recaptured and the cast in particular, just don't have the spirit! It's a case that it just doesn't work, in my eyes and the eyes of millions as well. Nobody is being sexist.
Surely, hasn't somebody somewhere said "Hang on a second!" when the backlash begun. And when it kept going and the backlash grew even bigger, did anybody take notice? Firing insults at Feig and his cast didn't solve anything as one twitter user was told "Fuck You" by Feig. I get that. They are trying to make a movie with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line. People are only human and that kinda shit wears you down.
However, the original Ghostbusters movie was a phenomenal experience. It was spiritual. Yes, it was a male centric movie, but crowbarring a bunch of women into the franchise, just doesn't make sense.
Hollywood currently has a hard on for strong, female centric leads. Fair enough. Hollywood is sexist? That argument can be made. But putting a bunch of women into a hugely loved movie franchise because they have boobies and baby chutes? Sexist much? Seriously Hollywood! Man up!
