That’s an interesting question, and I actually don’t know the answer. My guess is that it won’t hurt his career much. With Feig’s long string of successes, he will still get the opportunity to direct a lot of major comedies on financial considerations alone.
Furthermore, considering how Hollywood is filled with virtue-signaling SJWs, and the fact that SJWs always double down, his antics might even endear him to many executives and producers. Fucked-up, I know.
Dude, I’m on your side, but one shouldn’t lose sight of the facts.
Unless something strange occurs, SJW Ghostbusters will eclipse $140 million domestically, and will get much more than that adding in international figures under any scenario.
Its opening weekend was moderately disappointing, but far from catastrophic. It remains to be seen how it will do. To make sure that it’s a major bomb as opposed to a movie that makes back its money 5-10 years down the road, my advice is to tell friends and family not to see it.
If only because the Sony executive fuckfaces threatened to sue Bill Murray unless he made a cameo appearance.
(Paid your way to suffering, you mean. Was she your dominatrix then? If so, then that seems like bad BDSM etiquette.)
Regardless, did you kick her down a flight of stairs as appropriate after the movie was over, especially since we’re apparently all misogynists here for having any criticisms about the movie?
Oh, I’m not losing sight of the facts. I just have to honestly wonder since it is possible even I never expected this movie to be as bad as say, Pan or Jem, in terms of both actual performance, much less in terms of money. I’ve already told the people I know not to see this, so that’s done anyway. Additionally, being unlikely to open in China at all hurts them a lot and even domestically Star Trek Beyond, Jason Bourne, and Suicide Squad alone do it give a lot of competition when it’s already having trouble on a “slow” weekend and will also still have to compete with Finding Dory, The Secret Life of Pets, and other things as well.
Will it make $0 dollars during the next three weeks because of that competition? No.
Will it likely have a lot of trouble of getting just to even $200 million before July has ended? Probably. We’ll have to see what its reported earnings this weekend are and go from there.
Also, that’s what SONY was threatening to sue Bill Murray for? Wow. Nice to know that SONY or at least its movie division manages to become worse and worse literally every time I learn something more about it. It’s almost impressive, actually.
(Also also, it’s a bit weird to indeed be on the same side for once, but strange bed-fellows and such.)
Just came back from the movie. Not going to go into super details but these are my notes.
. Overall I enjoyed it, pretty funny. Only one use of jump scare but it worked on my mom lol.
. The plot felt like a combo of what they did with the force awakens and felt like they watched the original cartoon series. The whole feel felt so familiar to the cartoon and not the original movies.
. It felt like it was made as a family movie. Honestly I have trouble remembering if this was pg-13…if it was I cant see why.
. McKinnon stole the fucking show. She was too good throughout. The two known leads were prob the weakest for me
. I think I’d like Leslie character to go to school to show she wants to be more of an asset ist to the team.
. They def were doin spirit world nods… Which prob also leads me to believe they watched the cartoon.
. Overall im happy… After credits was cool but I doubt it’s gonna happen.
From: Steinberg, David
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 3:06 PM
To: Venger, Leonard; Weil, Leah
Cc: Yankelevits, Daniel
Subject: Ghostbusters/Murray - Litigation Counsel [CONFIDENTIAL]
In order to more fully evaluate our position if Bill Murray again declines to engage on “Ghostbusters”, AG requested that we identify “aggressive” litigation counsel with whom we can consult to evaluate our alternatives and strategize. [Harkening back to his prior employer, of course, raised the name of David Boies.]
Personally, while I’m fine with aggressive, I think we are in much worse shape if this goes public so seems to me we should look for someone who isn’t seeking the spotlight.
Can we discuss at some point soon to provide a suggestion or two?
Thanks.
Honestly, I don’t recall either your username or a single past interaction we have had on these forums prior to this topic. Maybe we had some argument, but I sincerely don’t remember.
"I’d have loved nothing more than to give Ghostbusters a glowing review. Seriously! Can you imagine a better troll? Extolling the virtues of a film that my loyal readership has been warring with social justice warriors over for months?
But I can’t. You see, I strive to be honest with my audience. I went into Ghostbusters with a clear and impartial mindset, like some tall, slim, and devastatingly handsome statue of justice. (But no blindfold. It would be a crime to cover up these eyes.)
Ugh, I don’t know what to tell you. Ghostbusters is terrible. It’s more obvious than the reading on an EKG-meter in Zuul’s bedroom. The only frame of reference in which this movie functions is as a meta-movie, in which the Ghostbusters franchise is treated like a vampire in a Hammer Horror from the 60s. The beloved franchise from our childhood with a stake driven through its heart, head chopped off, body burned and buried at a crossroads.
The overarching problem with Ghostbusters is that the script is a greater abomination to God than any of the demons and ghosts in the franchise. I’m sure they could have done a worse job, but they’d have to study Tobin’s Spirit Guide to summon a script from an even deeper circle of Hell.
Mostly, it’s a lack of intelligence. In the original movie, the bad guys weren’t actually the ghosts — everybody loves Slimer and the Marshmallow Man. No, the bad guys were the clueless bureaucrats in the government, who set off a supernatural crisis through bumbling and red tape.
In this film, by contrast, the enemy is all men, while the government ends up playing dad. Every man in the movie is a combination of malevolent and moronic. The chick ‘busters shame the mayor so much they end up getting government funding at the end. Like all feminists, they can only survive by sucking on the teat of Big Government.
I’ll skip over the vacuous and incoherent plot. You won’t understand it watching the movie and you won’t understand it reading my summary so who cares. This, unlike any movie I’ve ever seen before, seems to have been conceived entirely out of spite, with the result that its plot is largely irrelevant."
That’s pretty much it. It’s fun, had some good laughs, the ending is stupid. It’s not a great movie, but it’s enjoyable and I don’t think it deserves the hate it’s receiving.
This pretty much lines up with what that first critic said and with my own ideas about the rewrites as well as what the damned told me. And of course it is in line with what the more mean spirited pro-reviews are spouting as well.