Where did the Ghostbusters 2016 movie go so wrong?

So recently Melissa McCarthy gave an interview where she stated she wasn't sure where all the hate for this movie came from. You can find the article here.

As we approach the latest Ghostbusters movie, which skips 2016 entirely, I'm curious to know what people liked/disliked about the movie.

For me, I was pretty interested to see where they would go with a female team taking over. I was pretty certain it would work and be interesting.

That was until I saw the trailer, which told me this was going to be awful and just completely missed the point of Ghostbusters. What I didn't like was:

Compared to the OG Ghostbusters, all four women were just generic comic relief. The OG movies had a balance of trying to be scientific, funny and action packed. The newer version was just making an attempt to be comedic about everything. Instead of four strong female characters, we just got 4 complete jokes.

The receptionist problem. In the OG movies, Janine is a sassy and competent receptionist, who is pretty engaging and relatable. The reboot decided to make the receptionist a bumbling male idiot, whilst trying far too hard to paint the all female team as the intelligent party. Total waste of Chris Hemsworth in this role.

The jokes, or lack of: OG Ghostbusters has just the right amount of humour in their movies. The line about the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man just needing to get laid always cracks me up. But the jokes land in those movies because they're written into the story, the story isn't written around the jokes. The reboot is way too loud and tries so hard to be funny. Screaming generic black character and screaming generic nervous character, aren't funny. Also getting kicked in the balls jokes have been done to death.

The human villain might've been fun but his plan made no sense and he wasn't written well.

But that's my two cents. Did you like the movie? Why? Why not?

Submitted September 27, 2021 at 04:23PM by DialZforZebra https://ift.tt/3m6Ibj3