*scifi *wtf

Adding video to channels (Scifi, Wtf) - requested by ant.

Really is a shame that they had to turn off comments in their video. Then again, considering how the 2016 Ghostbusters was somehow more offensive than Donald Trump (at the time anyway), I'm just questioning the definition of insanity.

Was there any talk on Videosift when Ghostbusters was announced? And the kind of backlash that was almost as bad as it was everywhere else?

We're not YouTube (thankfully) but the overall feeling was that this is still going to suck.

Interestingly enough, Paul Feig recently actually admitted in an interview that he understands a lot of the backlash at this point.


Not the sexism so much, but the fact that when the movie first came out, he was in film school. He went, he saw it as a comedy with great special effects, and that's what he was remaking.

What he didn't realize, that as much as the film itself was just a comedy to him, a lot of kids grew up watching it and idolizing the main characters, myself included. It's not necessarily the gender swap that was the issue, it was the remake in its entirety.

The honest trailer nails that aspect prettymuch.

Of course, it didn't help that it really wasn't funny.

That's not to do with the all women cast though because I don't like most of the comedies from Hollywood - especially the ones from the new gang of male comedy leads that they just churn out one after another.

In fact, of all recent American comedies the ones that have stood out to me have been The Other Woman and The Heat, both of which are all female leads with very little male involvement. I can't think of any male led ones that I liked, certainly nowhere near as much as those two.

But one line that made a lot of sense in there was when it said "proves once and for all that girls can make middle of the road studio-mandated franchise bait just as well as the boys!" -- which is a really good point. Men are churning out all those shit comedies, why not women too? I don't like any of them, and they deserve equality in my apathy.

The only redeemable part of that shitfest was Kate McKinnon, and probably because her character was so self-aware and 'not-giving-a-fuck' that it made it worth watching for her.

Could also be because I have such a raging crush on her it borders on obsession.

Whatever else was wrong with the movie, I was shocked at how unfunny and ridiculous Chris Hemsworth's character was.