If I were a ghost I'd lie down and surrender to four sexy Ghostbusters like
Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and Leslie Jones. I wouldn't
take Chris Hemsworth seriously, with or without his hammer. He's just a stupid
men that the girls keep around for his good looks. There's been gender
reversal in films before, but I can't think of any other film where it's
pushed as far as in this film. Why shouldn't women objectify men? Men have
been objectifying women for hundreds, maybe thousands of years.
When I reviewed
the first Ghostbusters film
two days ago, I said that I didn't know whether the 2016 film is a sequel or a
reboot. It's irrelevant what the director or the screenwriter says, I'm only
interested in what the film itself says. The trouble is that the film itself
isn't clear. It doesn't reference the original film, which makes it a matter
of choice. The original actors appear in cameo roles playing different
characters, which suggests that it's a reboot. So my decision is that it's
probably a reboot.
Or a remake? In film jargon, a remake is when a single film is made again,
whereas a reboot is when the first film in a series is made again with the
intention of making a new film series. The correct word for this film is
definitely reboot, because the post-credits scene contains a hook for a
sequel. Whether or not a sequel will be made is in doubt. The fans rejected
the film, and it was a box office failure.
I sometimes say, deliberately being provocative, that I'm the only person who
likes "Ghostbusters 2016". The statement is obviously false, but I know that I'm
in the minority. I'm willing to argue about the film with anyone,
preferably over a glass of beer. It has a powerful villain (even if he's only
a seedy hotel janitor), it has better special effects than the original, and
it's funnier than the original. Most of all, it has four powerful women in the
lead roles. Their gender isn't an object of humour, it's just taken for
granted. The people who hate the film, most of whom hated it before they even
saw it, consider it sacrilege that their four heroes from a classic film have
been replaced by women. Is it misogyny? Of course it is! If a reboot had been
made with male actors there wouldn't have been such an outcry.
Oh, and the film has a cameo by Ozzy Osbourne. That's a bonus in any film.
My Blu-ray contains two versions of the film, the theatrical version and an
extended version. After watching both versions, I can definitely recommend the
extended version. It's often the case that scenes are cut or shortened to
improve the pacing of the theatrical version, but that's not the case here. I
suspect that the extra scenes, approximately 17 minutes, were only removed to
get the film's runtime below two hours. Nothing is superfluous in the
extended version, it's a perfectly crafted film which only suffers from
cuts being made.
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