They did before this review. Now they're gamegators.
If you don't have anything to add to the discussion it's better not to post.
Let's wade into this mire.
CBG's entire premise is that those critics who enjoy the movie or those simply writing about this entire situation are not being honest. This is as faulty as assuming that those who disliked it are Gamergators.
The entire argument she creates ignores:
- The hate prior to the trailer
- The intentions and direct efforts of the production crew, outside of Sony
- The treatment of the previous remakes she lists
It makes people feel safe. For some, it's absolutely a dog whistle to hide behind and that's something I talked to Philosophy about. It's similar to the situation Rolfe ended up in and it's part of why he received the wrongly-aimed backlash. Saying "It's
only about nostalgia or a bad trailer" is utterly incorrect. I can go back to any early announcement of this project as a female-led picture and prove that handily.
Was it a bad first trailer? Sure. Was that bad trailer bad enough to be the worse trailer on YouTube ever, completely through organic likes/dislikes? Of course not. Most of the time a bad trailer comes and goes, alongside t's movie. Ben-Hur is following Ghostbusters and yet, nothing, so it's not just a general backlash to remakes either.
Is this ultimately worth all the hate? If we're going to honestly talk about this mire, then don't
just bring up Rolfe or Roeper. Bring up the absolute shitshow of tweets at Feig from the beginning. Bring up the everything thrown at every critic who gave a positive review as well. Or
the treatment of Patton Oswalt (that's his dead wife, btw). Bring up what happened to
Leslie Jones yesterday.
If you're going to hand-wring, at least hand-wring everything. Because this was not the film worth any of this.
So do I think CBG is a GamerGator or whatever? No, that's thrown around a bit too much. But I think her argument is insincere. Not because she doesn't believe it, but because it's only a limited scope of the entire situation. It's aimed to excuse a specific viewer.
RLM was expected. They love to go in when they feel a movie is bad and I figured that Mike would dislike it. No issues either way. People can dislike a movie.
I can't believe the shitposting gainst RLM because they didn't like Ghostbusters.
What is wrong with some of you.
Can you point to the bevy of comments about RLM that prompted this? Direct quotes are fine.
Seriously, y'all are tiring me out here. You had a ton of people in this very thread say they liked or disliked the film, without issue. It's when people go hard that it goes off the rails. Just chill.
