So, I find this funny for a few reasons. As much as women complain about how they are objectified and only appreciated for how they look, they seem to have no problem with something like this. It also points out the fact that women aren’t about representation like they claim, or they would have been fighting to keep the role for women. The fact remains it’s about moving their (gratuitous) weight around and showing who is boss.

But I’m calling it right now: They’re going to write him with a gushing, inexplicable crush on Melissa McCarthy’s character. You know…because equality. She’ll ignore him the whole movie while he is her pussy-puppy until the end, when she finally “grants” him a kiss/make-out/sex. As Mr. Zies pointed out in another thread, the old formula is getting REAL stale.

I believe this film will be a massive failure, McCarthy is over estimated as star power and I don’t even think women want to watch female ghostbusters.

Not to mention the original film is still loved even by people who were born well after it was made.

As many of you know, Sony is moving forward with a female-lead Ghost Busters film. Today, it was announced the role of the secretary, Annie Potts, will be taken over by…Chris Hemsworth.

What could go wrong?

It’s also odd as the original Annie Potts/Secretary character wasn’t hot anyway.

I agree. But hey, they need a hunky male-secretary obsessed with McCarthy because its the horror love story every woman wants to see play out.

I believe this film will be a massive failure, McCarthy is over estimated as star power […] Not to mention the original film is still loved even by people who were born well after it was made.

I hope so; I’m part of that group you mentioned. McCarthy annoys the f~~~ out of me and the only person in the cast who seems worth a damn is Kirsten Wiig and she doesn’t have enough star power to drive the film, either. Neither one of them are nearly as funny or talented as Murray or Aykroyd.

RoyDal wrote:

What could go wrong?

Rebooting the series is a bad idea. If they did a continuity and spinoff, I can understand that, but a reboot?

I should clarify in saying, a reboot with women in the place of the male characters.  My feeling on a reboot is that it resets canon of a series.  There has to be good reasons for this.  Again, I don’t have issue with a spinoff, but keep that film universe consistent.

An abomination, is what it is.

Ghostbusters needs no reboot, especially not a feminazi reboot, I hope it tanks hard.

The obvious double standards these women surely will conjure, will probably be vomit inducing as well.

Maybe we can use this movie to profile manginas  and white knights, kinda like Brokeback Mountain…..

Also, I’m betting that they’ll make Hemsworth look like a total dork being a secretary.  That’s basically my job right now and I’m made fun of quite often for it.  I get the college chicks coming in here all the time (I work at a University, as most know), and they ask me “you are the secretary?”

Usually I’ll remind them what great benefits I get by working for the state, and the great potential I have to move up…and I get tuition reimbursement if I pass my classes.  Now, mind you, I don’t say these things to impress them.  I just remind them subtly how I’m very happy on my own and how great the school benefits are helping me, and only me.