Are people really rooting for or against movie franchises and entertainment stuff like sports teams now too? Its annoying enough that people talk smack and have "teams" in politics.

the movie was... tepid.
It was boring. It brought nothing to the story or the franchise.

There was no need for it whatsoever, other than act as a SJW circle jerk so Sony could claim it was not sexist in its movie roles.

So yes, rooting against it is easy.

Same as anything else that is not needed.

It is like the FF movie. Why did they have to go and make Johnny Storm black? There was not need for it. Hell you could have still had the black father, just made him a stepfather, or adoptive father, and included more diversity.

No need to change the core character because of "muh diversity".

I wanted this movie to fail because this movie has prevented us from getting the Ghostbusters movie that we all wanted: Dan Akroyd's version.

He had been going through revision after revision, but the last one I heard about (before this one was announced) was going to be the original cast members (again, this was before Ramis' untimely passing) passing the Ghostbusters business onto another group of younger actors (one of the names I heard passed around all the time was Seth Rogen), who would then take over the franchise for future sequels. Murray would never commit to a script, so the last I heard was he wanted to be a ghost in a cameo only.

Instead, Ramis passed away, Akroyd had to scramble and then the studio went their own direction and hired Feig to do some weird reboot thing with an all-female cast.

Again, I don't care about the cast.....what I care about is that they f-ed everything up by doing it as some hybrid feminist reboot that never seemed certain just what the hell it was. If the original crew had passed the proton packs to this female cast and they continued from there, I would have been fine with it.

But that's not what we got. We got a SJW reboot and it failed because no one wanted a reboot. We didn't want a movie that refuses to acknowledge the first ones existed.

And thanks to this massive failure, we'll never get the Ghostbusters sequel we wanted in the first place. Thanks for f-ing everything up, gals.

I see you listing a bunch of men's names up there as the reason your version didn't make it. Then you blame it on women. That doesn't really make sense. It isn't the actors faults that they accepted parts to the script that was written....by men.

Dan Akroyd and Harold Ramis and Ivan Reitman already made a ****tier Ghostbusters movie than this one.

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Are people really rooting for or against movie franchises and entertainment stuff like sports teams now too? Its annoying enough that people talk smack and have "teams" in politics.

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Its going to be hard for me to like anything when its constantly being shoved in my face that if I don't like it, its probably because a have some sort of deep seeded hatred of women.

I wanted this movie to fail because a political segment took one of my favorite movies from my childhood and MADE it political. Its a movie about fighting ghosts. Why did we have to make it so much more?

If this was just female ghostbusters and nothing else, I wouldn't have this opinion, but because it was a bull**** move to make this into so much more, yeah, I'm really glad it failed.

and once again, no matter what these people do and how much they try to influence the outcomes, the free market ALWAYS prevails.

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Yeah that's why BBC has had so many great shows over the years, the free market.

Free market is what has given us risk aversion. It hasn't consistently given us better movies.

I watched about 30 minutes of it after watching the original on some channel the weekend the new one came out. Turned it off. Wooof.

I mean..i think what a lot of you are thinking but not articulating, is that it just looked like a money grab movie being made with talent women in it. I assume Wiig and McCarthy are doing it so that they can then do a "passion project" movie(plus tons of money to be in it in the first place).

Studios just aren't always so blatant about it as this movie was.

I'm happy it failed because the whole production showed such contempt for the public. It feels like the whole thing was thrown together by done executive with a computer and some market analysis. "Throw this out there. It'll make money."

So yall don't think taking a 12 year old to this is worthwhile? Serious question.

My 10 year has seen the original and liked it but it doesn't have the nostalgia it does for me. He thought the new one was great. Probably a combination of humor at that age and the nostalgia thing I mentioned.

Personally I went in thinking it was going to be crap and came out thinking it was meh so it out did my expectations.

Wife and kids saw it and liked it.

Only thing that didn't suck about this movie was Thor, who was hilarious. Dance routine was good.

This movie was absolute garbage.

As a child of the 80s I love the original... Haven't seen this new one and sounds like I didn't miss much!

Caught this on some movie channel, maybe starz.

Many of you are very polite in calling this movie crap. Other than special effects, this piece of hot garbage makes battlefield earth look like gone with the wind. OK that's obvious hyperbole, but it is a good awful movie.