"It wasn't the worst film ever, so that means we should just forget about its misandrist dehumanizing hate campaign that started the moment they announced they would be excluding men from the Ghostbusters team. Let's forget about it all, despite the fact that the cast and director haven't issued any apologies for insulting and censoring anybody (including constructive criticism from women) who criticized the trailer and leading a false narrative that the film was being attacked by basement dwelling misogynists and racists (despite the fact that the film was greenlit by Amy Pascal, a proven misogynist racist). I just don't understand why people won't let this slide....."
-people trying to defend the movie
2016 Ghostbusters, the ill conceived brainchild of misogynist Amy Pascal and misandrist Paul Feig, aka the world's worst hypocrites, was a doomed production ever since its inception. From the moment of its announcement, it was clear that the filmmakers' primary goal was to push their "female equality"(in name only; the true word is misandrist) political agenda rather than deliver a quality comedy for either fans or general audiences.
When fans and audiences (aka the potential customers) stated their various complaints, Sony chose to make the baffling move to insult them, the mistake that led to Fan4stic becoming a box office flop, a mistake Sony is stated to have specifically wanted to avoid.
Perhaps most diabolical of all, the filmmakers proved that their supposed agenda of "female equality" was A MASSIVE LIE by purposely censoring and deleting the comments of women who gave objective constructive criticisms of the film. This was to perpetuate a propaganda campaign that dehumanized anybody who expressed dislike for the film as lethargic insecure misogynists.
"Professional" media outlets derided the superlatively disliked Youtube trailer as hatred from petty misogynists, referencing a handful of misogynist troll comments that were liable to pop up regardless of the film's quality. The outlets proceeded to treat this minority of comments as the reason for the majority of the dislike, a deception which was helped by the intentional deletion and censoring of many objectively critical comments from both men and women.
Interesting, acclaimed Youtube reviewers RedLetterMedia calculated the trailers numbers to reveal that although the majority of people who saw the trailer disliked it, only less than 1% chose to leave misogynist comments, proving that the claims by media outlets stating the film's dislike was caused by misogyny was a blatant lie. (The video can be seen here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UWROBiX1eSc)
Perhaps the egregious example of the dehumanizing propaganda campaign were the petty disparaging attacks by professional (Sony influenced) media outlets upon internet critic James Rolfe for his objective criticisms of the trailer, which hypocritically led to misogynist insults towards Rolfe's wife, who was derided as a "gold digger".
The film's director and cast also made unjust attacks upon the film's detractors while ignoring all constructive criticism about the film. Paul Feig infamously stated that "geek culture" (aka the fans of the Ghostbusters franchise and thus the most important potential customers of the film) were all "assholes". Melissa McCarthy stated that critics of the film were lethargic basement dwellers. Kristen Wiig stated that critics were mentally insane and needed psychiatric help. Kate McKinnon stated that critics of the film had psychologically unresolved "mommy issues". Most infamously, Leslie Jones engaged in a Twitter war which proved humiliating as her accusations of racism were countered with her own hypocritical Twitter posts.
Now exactly how much of the vilification of critics was voluntary is debatable. There are reports that Sony made the cast sign contracts to oblige them not to bad mouth the film (ironically to prevent a repeat of Josh Trank's infamous antics during Fan4stic's production that led to its financial flopping, antics which Sony ended up doubling down on during Ghostbusters, leading to similar financial results). McCarthy was reported to have argued about the film's direction with Paul Feig, as McCarthy's desire to adapt The Real Ghostbusters clashed with Feig's misandrist agenda. Also, it is reported that Kristen Wiig was heard on set numerous times telling her friends that the film was a disaster and that she made a mistake for signing on to it. So whether the cast insulted critics out of volition or obligation is debatable.
Regardless of the casts' culpability in the insults, the fact is that the film marketed itself not based on its inherently quality, but based on the lie that the film was being unjustly oppressed by misogynist trolls. Despite the media's propaganda to spread this lie, neither male nor female audiences were fooled. As a result of the marketing campaigns lies, insults, censorship, and propaganda, Ghostbusters plummeted financially to become one of Sony's most costly flops, costing them over $100 million in losses (see my prior article for details).
Ghostbusters deserves the merciless bashing it is receiving at the hands of the box office and gratified fans who are taking glee in the film's failure.
Most movies can just be judged by its merit and quality alone, regardless of production troubles. This film is different because the cast and director went out of their way to repeatedly insult and censor everybody who criticized the rather unlikable trailer.
And it would be one thing if only misgoynist/racist/trolls attacked the film, but Sony purposely erased constructive criticism from objective men and women to market their film under the lie that anybody who attacked the film was victimizing them. Even worse is that despite their claims of misogyny, the film ended up misandrist in its portrayal of men, thus making all of their insults and conspiring massively hypocritical.
So after months of being repeatedly insulted by the studio, director, and cast and then insulted by the hypocrisy of the film itself, one doesn't expect people to be taking glee in this film's failure? It's impossible not to judge this film based on its despicable behind the scenes controversies, because these controversies are exactly what the film was marketed under by Feig and the cast.
If you're wondering why people seem to be taking it personally, it's because the production staff from the start made it personal with their dehumanizing insults towards anybody who criticized it. Of course people will be angry and relish in its failure.
That's what generally happens when you repeatedly and unjustly insult and vilify people. They take great pleasure in your downfall. Don't know why this film's defenders expect different here.
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