People bitch about Political Correctness and the culture around it like its something new. It's not. It started in the 70s and blew up in the 90s.
I recently watched a comedy from 1994, called PCU. In it, you see an American campus with vegans, hippies and feminists on it. A girl literally asks another one (both from the "womynist" group): "You went out with a WHITE MALE?" "I was a freshman!" "FreshPERSON, please".
Please bitch about how PC is getting out of control. How dem kids these days are ruining everything by being SJWs.
Nah man, it was always this way. So just ignore them. Nothing changed.
Times have changed, they influence society a lot more (compared to then...) now that there is this very popular thing for the masses: Internets and social media.
In the real world, it's still not that pervasive. It's only online that it gets horrible, but everything is worse online. Every belief or agenda is blown out of proportions when we get online.
Outside, shit is pretty much the same it used to be.
I used to think people were getting dumber, its more that technology has now allowed dumb people to have a voice. Early internet such great memories, many hours ejoying communities and trivia in irc..
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Now he posts shit all day long on facebook, twitter imdb etc. I think this has also given rise to the reboot, prequel etc. cashins because no need for effort / quality work.. Derp is happy with same story/ no story and compter scenes.
Who would watch it anyway? I can't imagine any chinese going to see some american boars trying to be funny with stale humour like what was shown in the trailer.
Not to mention pop culture references or references to the older movies, for which noone there gives a fuck about.
I personally don't give the slightest damn that the main cast is all female now. I doubt anyone here does. It's just the obvious reasons behind this decision that pisses most people off... and those cringeworthy reviews kinda give proof to that... god damn, "they" really got their claws in quite deep already...
Why, it’s almost as though these folks have made up their mind about this movie without seeing it!
By Jason Bailey | July 12, 2016
If this is your first time on the Internet since August 2014, first of all, congratulations, what’s mental self-care like? And secondly, you might be interested to hear that a great many grown men are very angry that they’re remaking a comedy from the ‘80s with some women. No, seriously, it’s somehow a big fucking deal! They started whining from the moment it was announced, took to forum boards and comment sections to voice their displeasure, produced temper tantrum video non-reviews, and made its trailer the most “disliked” video in YouTube history. (Even Donald Trump weighed in. Of course Donald Trump weighed in!)
When observers dared wonder if there might be a wee bit of sexism in what appeared to be an organized campaign to sink that trailer’s YouTube ratings, its critics insisted that no, no, it was just a bad trailer. Well, now Ghostbusters is seeing quite the poor showing among IMDb users, with (as of this writing) an average 3.7/10 rating among over 6500 votes – a remarkable thumbs-down from viewers, considering it doesn’t screen for general audiences until Thursday. Why, it’s almost as though these folks have made up their mind about this movie without seeing it!
This, um, mathematical oddity was first flagged by ScreenCrush, which notes that the film has received less than one thousand votes rating Ghostbusters from 10 to 2, but over two thousand handing it the “1” designation. They also discovered – and you may want to sit down for this – that the vast majority of those “1” ratings were given by users who described themselves as men between 18 and 44. I know, I know, I can’t believe it either.
Meanwhile, among film critics, Ghostbusters is currently doing just fine. Then again, they’ve seen the movie.
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Brad Jones (who play the role of the Cinema Snob on youtube) and Allison Pregler (who played the role of Obscurus Lupa) watched the movie. I don't always agree with what Brad Jones has to say (he didn't enjoy Scott Pilgrim, it's my favorite movie) but he never takes a side and is honest in his reviews. I might not agree with his tastes, but I agree that he doesn't hold back and explain his experience in details. So I figured I'd watch a bit of what he had to say.
Warning 1: his videos contain plenty of spoilers for the movies he saw.
Warning 2: this is 50 minutes long.
I only watched 10 minutes to get a good idea of what they thought. The short version:
She liked it, he thought it was meh. She thought it started average but got good at the end, he thought it was pretty much the same overall. Neither of them believes the movie is hate-worthy, regardless of if you're hating because "omg, it raped my childhood" or "omg, you're sexist". The movie has genuine laughs to offer, both laughed and not just AT the movie.
Surprisingly/thankfully enough, Leslie Jones (black fat woman) isn't the character she seems to be from the trailers. She was the character they hated the most from the trailers ("the trailers make it look like she's just screaming through the whole movie") but she was their favorite part in the actual movie. They used her worst scenes for the trailers. They weren't exactly sold on Melissa McCarthy, but she apparently plays it mostly straight, not the way she does it in movies people hate.
Didn't listen to more, but basically the movie seems to be a 6/10 or 7/10.
Many don't get why fans are angry with this movie. It's because people wanted another Ghostbusters with the original cast so badly. Sony blocked them repeatedly and then when it's finally too late and one of the cast dies, they decide to make this feminist flick that is a weak watered down version of the original with a PC/SJW agenda? It's like a kick in the face. When you read all the background stories revolving this, it only gets worse.
Basically, this movie can get a 8/10 rating on IMDB for all I care, I refuse to see it. It's like with the Transformers movies - hated the first, refuse to see the others because they completely wrecked the Transformers I recall as a kid.
SATURDAY AM UPDATE: Friday estimates have come in and Ghostbusters is right on track to match Mojo's expectations with an estimated $17.2 million Friday, pushing toward a weekend right around $46 million. While these aren't exactly blockbuster numbers given the film's $144 million production budget, they aren't exactly dire numbers either as director Paul Feig's films tend to deliver solid multipliers. In fact, the film's "B+" CinemaScore matches the CinemaScore for both Spy and Bridesmaids and is just below The Heat's "A-" and all three enjoyed solid legs. Ghostbusters is looking to deliver Feig's largest opening of all-time and the same goes for star Melissa McCarthy.
So it won't even be nº 1 on it's opening week... such is the power of the patriarchy, I'm afraid
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It's doing better than the other films the director has made but the budget is much larger so.. It doesn't look like it will bomb, but it's not unlikely it will be a flop.
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