(Ha at the forced, failed comparison to Star Wars.)
The only thing surprising in here is that they aren’t moving into “this movie only failed because of sexism!” narrative I expected they would once the movie more or less failed at least commercially, but I suppose in this case, the two options are actually mutually exclusive for once. How hard do you have to be grasping at straws to try to use unofficial confirmation as proof of anything though? Not to mention trying to count the success of people going specifically and only for things related to the original Ghostbusters as a good thing for this movie? Delusions abound.
The two articles linked off that one are interesting:
The reason they aren’t going with the sexist narrative is because it completely backfired on them. Too many well known YouTube personalities already denunked the "sexist"card and word of mouth reaches people far more then any ideologically bias review. At the same time the success of sucide squad unintentionally destroyed the "nerds hate women"argument given how big of a plot point harely was in the film.
All in all Sony fucked up and has no more cards to pull out anymore.
Still, I expected them to try given those arguments were never based any form of reality. Sure, some men who hated the movie from the word go are genuine misogynists, but neither did they ever actually make up a more than a tiny portion–less than 1% if you go by the Scientist Man video above–of the discontented people who made their opinions known nor do they tend to be the type who respond to be shamed.
I might as well sign the death certificate on this thread, even if I’m not going to actually close it given that in about a month’s time, SJW Ghostbusters has both fallen from the Box Office Top 10 as expected–it ended up #12 this weekend–and not even come close to turning a profit or even broken even with its own budget domestically. Ha.
I had to go to Box Office Mojo for once to check since, as I said, it fell to #12 (which is still too high, frankly), so if anyone is interested one last time, then here it is:
I not sure what the funniest thing is: that SJW Ghostbusters apparently fell out of another 1,108 theaters this week or that Sausage Party, apparently also by SONY, did so well relatively speaking despite being stuck in the animation ghetto, R-Rated, and having Seth Rogen and James Franco attached to the point that unlike SJW Ghostbusters, it actually made a profit for SONY already.
Oh wait. It’s definitely the latter. Just going to borrow your .gif of Heston for this final post, @Starhammer:
Good riddance to bad, forgettable rubbish. I genuinely hope that the animations fare better even if SONY('s movie division) doesn’t deserve to do well at this point.
(In before Paul Feig commits suicide or at least has a breakdown.)
(Where did you even find that quote, Pertho? I ask because I’m not seeing it, though at the same time I would say it’s not quite as insipid as it appears, though it’s basically a still useless statement.)
Ha. Figures I resurrect this thread in trying to give it a send-off. Oh well. The article from that Carey Martell person was interesting, especially the Facebook Insight thing that I’ll have to look into despite otherwise wanting not to do with Facebook. The follow-up article after the movie started to obviously bomb is even more brutal: http://careymartell.com/2016/07/ghostbusters-reboot-flopped-deserved-to-bomb/.
Maybe if you squint extremely hard and ignore the fact that everyone in fucking New York should believe in ghosts given what happened at the end of the two movies that came before it.
It’s a reboot that was partly marketed early on, falsely, as a sequel. That’s it. It’s fitting that it wouldn’t be getting a sequel itself at this point despite being supposedly greenlit since even as utterly stupid as SONY('s movie division) has proven itself to be, even it doesn’t that much money to burn on something that wasn’t obviously wanted. They’re likely just saying that so that radical feminists don’t turn on them.
Wasn’t that the whole plot of the second Ghostbusters? New York completely forgot about the first movie? I haven’t watched in forever, so I could be wrong.
I know, I know, we don’t talk about the sequel. Kappa
Either way, glad to see this movie bombed, as it deserved.
Looks like Roland from the EGB toon is debuting in this one!!
So no Feig nor the team that worked on the movie are involved, and GB2016 is have their own separate universe from the IDW one!!
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I’m okay with this!!
IN Burnham, Scheoning, Delgado and the rest of the IDW team I TRUST!!
Their track record with the series from 2011 to the just finished story-line: Ghostbusters: International, have been top notch!!