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The more I think about this the less I like it.
One of my personal crusades is about how men still basically dominate politics and the corporate world, and how little progress we've actually made in broadening gender roles.
But this...this is recasting a classic movie with all women for no real reason. It comes off like a cheap gimmick, and I think it's as sexist as anything. They're not making a social statement. If they think they are, in reality they're making the wrong one.
If you've absolutely GOT to remake Ghostbusters, make it a team of mixed men and women, make them all competent in their own quirky way, and don't make them all pair up romantically, because, you know, it's possible for men and women to actually work together. In other words, re-make Ghostbusters. Hell I might even be able to stomach Melissa McCarthy in a movie like that. Just don't turn it into a bad parody of itself and please, please, please don't gang rape my childhood the way they're apparently going to. This smells of jar jar binks.
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