Paul Feig, director and co-writer are all women. ghostbusters (2016), which still blames Trump supporters for its spectacular failure.
Unfortunately, it took this guy eight years to do a little introspection about how bad that movie was and how the marketing seemed to be trying to alienate its core fans. is. But no, he still blames us…
“In 2016, Hillary Clinton was running and the political climate was really weird at the time. There were a lot of guys looking for a fight,” says the little crybaby. said of guardian. “When things would overlap on Twitter, I would go back and see who they were. So many people were Trump supporters.”
“Then Trump turned on us. He said: 'They're remaking it.' indiana jones Without Harrison Ford. You can't do that. and now they are making ghostbusters Only women. what happened? 'And I was completely upset. ”
it's true. Mr. Trump said: And it was interesting.
Feig said, “Everyone has become cannibalized. This movie has turned into a political statement that says, 'If you support women, you should go see this.' If not, then…”
“I thought it was perfectly fine for the main character to be a woman, but people brought a lot of baggage with them,” he said.
Let's go to the field of science.
Point 1: In case of commercial failure lady ghostbusters The cause was America's sexism against women-only reboots, but why did that happen? oceans 8 Hit after about 18 months?
Point 2: How did Trump fans cause this failure when Hillary Clinton received about 66 million votes? You don't even need 25 million voters, less than half, to get box office success. Roughly speaking, approximately 15 million people paid to see it. lady ghostbusters Here in North America. Assuming that all 15 million of those tickets were purchased by Hillary voters, that means 51 million Hillary voters did not bother to go see the movie. So…
Why is it our MAGA bros' fault that 51 million Hillary Clinton voters didn't want to see an all-female remake? ghostbusters?
Point 3: lady ghostbusters It opened pretty well with $46 million. In other words, he killed…
Point 4: The movie was simply awful: sexless, uninspired, choppy, with no memorable scenes or characters, and no big laughs.
Point 5: Remember, those involved with this film chose to capitalize on and lean into the online outrage rather than ignore it. Instead of boldly saying this was a movie for everyone, the filmmakers tried to further divide fans in the foolish belief that they could make more money at the box office by excluding Hillary supporters. How stupid was this? And this? And this?
Point 6: Do Trump supporters have the power to kill Hollywood projects? Yeah, I hope so…
That aside, if the movie had been any better, it wouldn't have lost tens of millions of dollars.
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