I'd be interested (disclaimer: I would not be interested) to hear what you think is the difference between "racist" and "racial stereotyping".
This is exactly the kind of smartass, sophomoric comment that I was trying to avoid by bringing this topic up in this forum. From the tone of your writing, you appear to be thinking that this kind of comment is clever. If that's the case, you've set the bar very low for yourself.
And I assume you have the same problem with the original movie, where the main cast was three white scientists and one "street-smart" black guy who got a bunch of stereotyped dialogue?
Since you've explicitly told me that you're not interested in what I have to say, my advice to you would be to not ask followup questions after that. I'm not very interested in anything you have to say either, from the juvenile tone of your post. Despite this, I'm assuming you're an adult. So my other piece of advice to you is to stop making juvenile attacks like this on people with differing opinions.
Ironically, the exact thing I was posting about was people acting like you, Wintermute. I am done communicating with you.
Wouldn't you agree that it's a wild coincidence that the breaking point for all of the reasonable non-misogynists (who happen to have huge overlap with the MRA/Gamergate/etc crowd) would be a reboot with women?
That's a pretty loaded statement. First of all, rather than responding to Wolfe's arguments, you're lumping him in with a group of people, "the MRA/Gamergate/etc crowd," and then declaring him guilty by association with a group he's not even part of. You're doubling up an Association Fallacy and a Traitorous Critic Fallacy. That's very unfortunate. I'm not even going to spend much time addressing this, other than to say it's not a valid argument, and you should stop that sort of thing.
As for the wild coincidence part, it's not a coincidence at all. Ghostbusters fans have been waiting 27 years for a sequel that continues the original movies. Instead they got a reboot. Fans didn't want a reboot, they wanted Ghostbusters III, they wanted their franchise to stay alive, and not be co-opted by a different series with the same name. When that's exactly what happened after a wait of so long, they got very vehemently angry about that. That's a very different story from, say these remakes:
Point Break, Ocean's Eleven, Dawn of the Dead, Robocop, War of the Worlds, The Wicker Man, Annie, Assault on Precinct 13, Clash of the Titans, The Italian Job, Get Carter, The Hitcher, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Karate Kid, King Kong, The Longest Yard. Most of these were not series, but one-off movies, and even the ones that were series, like Robocop, lent themselves much better to a remake than a sequel.
One exception, not part of the above list, was Fright Night, which could have very well had a third part rather than rebooted. Unfortunately, Fright Night just doesn't have the fanbase of Ghostbusters, so that wasn't a big a deal. I am a true Fright Night fan, and believe me, I was pissed. There were so many ways to continue the story and reward the fans, and they didn't even bother. I felt very much like Ghostbusters fans do now.
Screenwriter Max Landis wrote an incredible treatment of Ghostbusters III. It's a crying shame nothing will come of it now. As for reasonable non-misogynists, here's someone else with a Youtube channel that I like, Comicbookgirl19.
Here's ComicBookGirl19 talking about why it's important to be honest about Ghostbusters, and she re-iterates Wolfe's and my points. Maybe she's one of those crazy Men's Right activists, but I doubt it.
Here's another woman's opinion of the trailers. It's not good.Here's another female genre fan with a movie review. She doesn't like it. Here's another review by a woman. Guess what? She doesn't like it either. And on and on and on. And I'm done here. The current level of Social Justice Warrioring in pop culture is terrible, when people can't even express their opinions without being grouped and labeled and then being subjected to a Politically Correct ad hominem beatdown by people operating on the level of schoolyard bullies.
I came in here to respond to that, and instead, I'm subjected to the same treatment myself. This is terribly disappointing to me. I've wasted too much of my time already making this post, especially considering what I'm replying to. But I didn't want to leave this unsaid. Now that I have, I'm not going to waste any more time getting sucked down replying to juveniles. I was expecting something better out of the forum and fans here at Escape Artists, but apparently the PC torch-and-pitchfork crowd is thriving here as well.