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26. It is a truly awful film

Here's the thing though - the problem isn't that it was all female or the actresses. Each of the actresses involved is incredibly talented, as we've seen in so much of their other work.

I blame Paul Feig. Entirely, completely, 100%. The writing was just terrible. The jokes aren't funny. It didn't fit with the kind of cynical, sardonic humor that made Ghostbusters. It was weird slapsticky, lowest denominator jokey, cringed the entire way through. I was on a plane with nothing better to do when I saw it, and I almost shut it off in favor of sitting there doing nothing. Not even on a plane.

If they had taken the same actresses and had just about anyone else write and direct, it could've turned out so much better.

And then when people pointed out how terrible it was, they got called sexist as a marketing strategy, which was weird. The main protagonist of the new Ghostbusters is a teenage girl. It's been pretty well-received.

Sometimes a bad movie really is a bad movie. And I love bad movies. But that wasn't good/bad. That was bad-bad. I wanted to turn it off on a plane. And I will watch nearly anything.

Someone allowed Paul Feig near the project, and that was that. I wonder what a movie with those same actresses and a competent writer/director would've looked like. I'd watch that movie.

Now I have to watch the CinemaSins video on it, just for balance.