(hasn’t seen The Force Awakens and doesn’t care to do so
I guess that means I’m sexist then. )
Oh wait. I already knew that since I hate everyone by default, so we’re good.
Besides, I currently do still want to see Rogue One oddly and that’s headlined by a woman; oh noes, incoming misogyny paradox meltdown.
Hmmm? Who is angry in here? Most of the people in here are morbidly amused in one way or another. At most, before specs came in here to snipe, the extent of anger here was vague annoyance at Feig and to a lesser extent McCarthy being idiots or getting annoyed at Raz0r for trolling or face-palming at Leslie Jones basically being Ms. Bojangles. That’s about it.
There’s way more disappointment here than anger and even with that there’s hardly that much disappointment since most of the people in here expected this movie to be a mediocre-at-best movie, which even the more positive reviews posted in here have basically reaffirmed at this point–your sacrifice is in vain, @Pertho.
I’ll agree that the anger towards the movie is largely overblown, but so is the self-righteous defending of it like it’s anything actually special just because the main cast are all women; wowzers, that’s never been done before, right Deathproof? Quite simply this would not have gotten to the level of general vitriol on the greater Internet it currently stands at if Feig and white knight apologists and other SJWs like him weren’t so insecure that they can literally brook no criticism without equating it to sexism or some other type of oppression that forces them to make insulting blanket statements and strawmen of people’s possibly valid critiques; that’s not even getting into the misandrist double standard of whom they target, i.e. James Rolfe.
I mean, sure, a bunch of people would have likely still cried that it was raping their childhood or whatever, but that was basically guaranteed to be the case anyway after all the this time, especially after Harold Ramis died and subsequently thus wasn’t involved. That’s generally par for the recourse with any franchise reboot, especially given everyone is rightfully cynical about Hollywood exploiting franchises purely to make money off of the name-brand rather than to try to actually do anything good with it.
[details=Spoiler]Seriously, though, a sudden dance sequence? As comedy? That also is just an idiotic movie if the protagonists could be similarly possessed? What.
I guess when Feig was saying he didn’t think men could be funny, he was including himself then. In before he gets sex change like the Wachowski sibling and subsequently implodes into his own newly crafted vagina once (s)he has a Jupiter Ascending-level meltdown.[/details]