Meet The All-Female Ghostbusters Team

[NeutralStasis]

Could work, but the casting is a bit crappy. There are better actresses that would be stronger in the roles with established comedic careers, much like the original cast. While I have no proof to support this, it would seems somewhat possible that stronger actresses might have avoided the casting call, as the concept of the all female cast was unappealing to them and where they are in their careers.

The fact that they jumped to an all female cast is partly where I start to struggle with the concept. It honestly feels like it going to be forced, and that leads to shitty entertainment. Diversity is a natural part of the human experience, and should come naturally in our entertainment, but like other projects, this looks like it will be forced.

I think several people above me posted that the idea of even doing a reboot is a bad one, and I agree with this completely. Some stories need to be told once and never tried again.

 

[Queen Michael]

I just wish that they'd included Sarah Silverman. Oh, and Kate Willert. And also Lindsay Ellis. (Shut it. A Queen can dream.)

 

[Phasmal]

Spoiler: Oh look at all the comments.

Fair enough. Looks cool.
I might check it out if the trailer is good, but I was never a huge Ghostbusters fan.

I'm kinda irked about people complaining about it being an all-lady lineup. Why not? All-dude lineups aren't exactly rare.
Oh well. Best of luck to this film, looks like it's going to need it.

 

[Foolery]

An all female cast? Sure. Don't see a problem there. Besides, 'busting makes me feel good!

 

[Dragonbums]

Oh look, there's the obligatory black guy girl. Seeing as we're all playing the SJW card on this issue, couldn't they at least made it more diverse?

The SJW within me can tolerate that there might have been some sentiment of positive discrimination in a 1980s film. Why should they follow this when they seem to be on a course to fuck-up every Ghostbusters was?

Yeah it's totally because of SJW like thinking. It's not like having an all white cast with one black person has been a thing that's been done in movies now for decades long before the "SJW" craze even started :/.

 

[Dragonbums]

Anyway back to the positives I'm pleasently surprised by this list. The only thing I was worried about is if they were going to go with the "babes with guns" route, but this looks like a well rounded cast of people.

I'm not gonna be a debbie downer over the female cast like some people in this thread.

 

[Dragonbums]

Same as there was no reason to change Rue into a black girl in the Hunger Games movie, just cause she was black in the book.

Rue is black in the books and black in the movie...so what exactly was the change here?

(Also, notice how having a black character must only be done for PC reasons, not because they were the best available or something)

What if they were the best available actor for the role?

This is literally the problem with people crying PC. There is a very real chance that for ONCE they actually reviewed actors of various ethnic groups and sex equally and decided that an actor that wasn't white was best for the role. But of course the assumption is that they did it because "SJW's". No one has any proof that they did it for diversity reasons. They just assume it because we are so used to seeing white actors do practically every major role in major movies 90% of the time that CLEARLY the only reason a non white actor is in a major role is because they are either in a Tyler Perry/Black cinema movie or Hollywood is "pushing" an agenda.

 

[hermes]

This is literally the problem with people crying PC. There is a very real chance that for ONCE they actually reviewed actors of various ethnic groups and sex equally and decided that an actor that wasn't white was best for the role. But of course the assumption is that they did it because "SJW's". No one has any proof that they did it for diversity reasons. They just assume it because we are so used to seeing white actors do practically every major role in major movies 90% of the time that CLEARLY the only reason a non white actor is in a major role is because they are either in a Tyler Perry/Black cinema movie or Hollywood is "pushing" an agenda.

The problem why this is considered gimmicky is that they always referred to this as: the new ghostbusters, and they are girls now. Like that justified the reboot because it was a "fresh" take on it. So, the reason for the choice of a black woman is not because of diversity, it is because Ernie Hudson was in the original.
This is not really diversity, it is just a gender bender.

 

[Kittyhawk]

I still remember going to see the original as a kid, and while I welcome its getting made, the cast kind of has me scratching my head and asking, why not go with a male and female cast, than this all female quartet? It totally smells of trying to make Ghost busters appeal to an audience its not really for.

Its a supernatural action comedy that didn't need to be mired in gender politics. Wouldn't a more mixed cast of male and female allow for a wider legion of viewers to watch and enjoy it? On top of that, fast forward and say this new GB flick does well, won't an animated series follow as well as merchandise, that are pushed at kids? All female merchandise...?

Had they chosen at least two male actors, I'd be more excited for it. Now not so much, but maybe they can prove me wrong. We'll soon see if this quartet can carry the action, as well as they might the comedy.

 

[Phasmal]

I still remember going to see the original as a kid, and while I welcome its getting made, the cast kind of has me scratching my head and asking, why not go with a male and female cast, than this all female quartet? It totally smells of trying to make Ghost busters appeal to an audience its not really for.

Its a supernatural action comedy that didn't need to be mired in gender politics. Wouldn't a more mixed cast of male and female allow for a wider legion of viewers to watch and enjoy it? On top of that, fast forward and say this new GB flick does well, won't an animated series follow as well as merchandise, that are pushed at kids? All female merchandise...?

Had they chosen at least two male actors, I'd be more excited for it. Now not so much, but maybe they can prove me wrong. We'll soon see if this quartet can carry the action, as well as they might the comedy.

But... the original cast was all men?
And...
Male is also a gender.

Ugh. Y'know what. I'm just gonna not.

Spoiler: I can't even with these comments

 

[TallanKhan]

Meet The All-Female Ghostbusters Team

At the moment, this new film's plot is expected to have no connection to the previous two movies.

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What?

Its a third Ghostbusters film, how the hell can it have no connection to the previous movies?

 

[Simskiller]

Oh look, there's the obligatory black guy girl. Seeing as we're all playing the SJW card on this issue, couldn't they at least made it more diverse?

The SJW within me can tolerate that there might have been some sentiment of positive discrimination in a 1980s film. Why should they follow this when they seem to be on a course to fuck-up every Ghostbusters was?

WHITE IRISH! ASIAN! AFRICAN! ABORIGINAL!

TEAM RAINBOW ASSEMBLE!

Is it bad I'm trying to think what race Slimer should be to make it more rainbowrific? It's already green.

 

[Signa]

Maybe I need to see them in costume, but I feel like I'm looking at the next cast of The View. I don't know any of those actresses.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I'm kinda irked about people complaining about it being an all-lady lineup. Why not? All-dude lineups aren't exactly rare.
Oh well. Best of luck to this film, looks like it's going to need it.

Any Ghostbusters line-up that's not the original cast is bad, very bad. Remember when years earlier there were talks about doing another Ghostbusters and maybe putting, like, Ben Stiller in there? *shudder* Same thing here, except replace Stiller with McCarthy... which may actually be even worse.

Seriously, just make a new movie with an all-female team of scientists/alien hunters/ghost detectives/whatever. Stop sucking the marrow from the 80's.

 

[EvilRoy]

I'm kinda irked about people complaining about it being an all-lady lineup. Why not? All-dude lineups aren't exactly rare.
Oh well. Best of luck to this film, looks like it's going to need it.

Any Ghostbusters line-up that's not the original cast is bad, very bad. Remember when years earlier there were talks about doing another Ghostbusters and maybe putting, like, Ben Stiller in there? *shudder* Same thing here, except replace Stiller with McCarthy... which may actually be even worse.

Seriously, just make a new movie with an all-female team of scientists/alien hunters/ghost detectives/whatever. Stop sucking the marrow from the 80's.

I kind of agree with you here. I mean, if the story is going to have no connection to 1 or 2 anyway, then why bother making it a Ghostbusters movie? You may as well just grab "sci-fi", "all female", "action-comedy" and go an make your own new movie from scratch, just throw on an "inspired by" at the end. Its not like they're gaining much by attaching it to a fairly old, reasonably worn out IP like this - and they already proved female foursome as a main cast can generally work so they shouldn't be depending on that anyway.

I think it would be one thing if they were doing another Alien/Predator/Resident Evil movie, where the antagonists are iconic and tied directly to those names or even another Dark City, where the setting is central to the plot, but can be used to carry another wholly unrelated story.

Ghostbusters was unique because it had ghosts, engaging likeable characters, and a fairly novel premise. The setting was New York (which will never be interesting again), the premise and antagonists are no longer novel, and the characters won't be in this movie because we are getting new ones. The new ones may be just as good as the old, but you don't need to name your movie Ghostbusters to get good characters.

 

[Ishal]

unleeeeeeeeeessssss you were implying it was made for "fat" [footnote/](AKA unappealing to my little man downstairs Via conventional standards)[/footnote] femenists [footnote/]CAUSE ALL FEMENISTS AND SJW'S ARE FAT AND DO NOT PLEASE THE D WHY ELSE WOULD THEY CARE!!??[/footnote] who do nothing but complain on tumblr? [footnote/]seriously though proper attractive women subsist on nothing but male vailidation and therefore do not "feminism" and hurt my feelings by condemning things I like[/footnote]

because as we all know a whole woman cast is purely pandering unlike an all MALE cast because men are in fact humanitys default

OH BUT YOURE NOT SAYING THAT ARE YOU? no of coarse not

fuck me escapist you do not disappoint

YOU GUISE DO NOT DISSAPOINT

And neither do you, Vault. Neither do you

OT: I don't know what to say. These women are comedians? I've never heard of them.

Ghost Busters is one of those Nerd/Geek culture films/franchises I never got into.

Back to the Future, Doctor Who, Ghost Busters, etc. Just not a fan. I mean, I guess being progressive is good. It's just, cliche is cliche. As others have already pointed out what the cliche's are, it just kinda makes me scratch my head. If having cliches represented by both genders is that important, go for it.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I kind of agree with you here. I mean, if the story is going to have no connection to 1 or 2 anyway, then why bother making it a Ghostbusters movie? You may as well just grab "sci-fi", "all female", "action-comedy" and go an make your own new movie from scratch, just throw on an "inspired by" at the end. Its not like they're gaining much by attaching it to a fairly old, reasonably worn out IP like this - and they already proved female foursome as a main cast can generally work so they shouldn't be depending on that anyway.

I think it would be one thing if they were doing another Alien/Predator/Resident Evil movie, where the antagonists are iconic and tied directly to those names or even another Dark City, where the setting is central to the plot, but can be used to carry another wholly unrelated story.

Ghostbusters was unique because it had ghosts, engaging likeable characters, and a fairly novel premise. The setting was New York (which will never be interesting again), the premise and antagonists are no longer novel, and the characters won't be in this movie because we are getting new ones. The new ones may be just as good as the old, but you don't need to name your movie Ghostbusters to get good characters.

Ghostbusters also took its subject matter very serious, probably due to Aykroyd being kind of a weirdo like that. But it really lended a proper sense of weight to the supernatural presence. Slimer was actually kind of creepy and menacing and so were the hell hounds, and the entire coming of Gozer made perfect sense as to why ghosts were suddenly showing up. I know it's primarily seen as a comedy, but the way it implemented the whole ghost angle was fucking solid.

I really don't see them replicating this in the remake. They couldn't even recapture it in the sequel by the same director and with the same actors and writers.

And seriously, how could they make an all-female Ghostbusters team and not cast Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett turned Ghostbuster!? Like, how fucking killer would that have been?!

 

[Ishal]

And maybe this is me just not being very intune with American female comedians, but the bulk of their material generally consists of 'Look how out of control we are, eventhough we're women, WOOOAH!' I'm fucking looking at you McCarthy, you're 'obnoxious fat person' routine is old and stale. Replace McCarthy with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and throw in Catherine Keener, and maybe we'll talk... just maybe.

It's not just you, in fact. Another person thought the same thing about women comedians, and got a decent amount of flak for it.


He raised some good points, imo. But I don't really follow female comedians, or comedy in general for that matter. Though Tina Fey is pretty funny sometimes.

 

[mad825]

Oh look, there's the obligatory black guy girl. Seeing as we're all playing the SJW card on this issue, couldn't they at least made it more diverse?

The SJW within me can tolerate that there might have been some sentiment of positive discrimination in a 1980s film. Why should they follow this when they seem to be on a course to fuck-up every Ghostbusters was?

Yeah it's totally because of SJW like thinking. It's not like having an all white cast with one black person has been a thing that's been done in movies now for decades long before the "SJW" craze even started :/.

Whoah, check out the snarkiness on you.

My original point was seeing as they are trying to do something different when they could've actually tried doing something different. Still, GB is a little racist whether inherently or consequently I do not know but what I do know rehashing the original origin stories will make it racist without any justification. Hindsight.

 

[the December King]

And seriously, how could they make an all-female Ghostbusters team and not cast Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett turned Ghostbuster!? Like, how fucking killer would that have been?!

I am really hoping that she is somehow, somehow involved... but then again, if it's a re-imagining, they'll probably not have a Dana Barrett at all...