And not a single doot from the ghostbusters theme either. Makes a man wonder.
This one?
Also, I think the Lady Ghostbusters got cancelled because it was too good. They want Ghostbusters to be brainless schlock.
Nah, it got canned for a very basic reason: lack of any sort of conceivable mass audience.
And this has nothing at all to do with how good the movie is, I'm sure it's a perfectly serviceable movie.
Do young guys want to see an action-comedy-horror flick with fairly frumpy looking girls in it? Whether or not there's sexism, it's just not a magnet to draw that crowd. Older fans? It looks like a cheap cash-in, so it gets put in the "why bother" bucket along with the new Robocop movie, new Totall Recall, and all the other terrible "reboots" - most of which feature male stars BTW. Some pro-feminist women might talk about how much of a good role model it is, but they're not the type who go to see that type of movie: sites like TheMarySue probably have more articles about how everyone should see Ghostbusters 2016 than actual staff members who went to see the movie. And regular women don't want to see that either: they usually want to see cute guys running around. Chris Hemsworth was a secretary in that movie. Ask most women whether they want to see Chris Hemsworth as the action star or Melissa McCarthy and most will says Chris Hemsworth. Hell, I don't know any dudes who are Chris Hemsworth fans, it's all girls.
A bad movie will succeed if it's got the demographics right. Look at how terrible and boring all the Jurassic Park movies are, but they're consistently successful, because they know their audience, who want 2 hours of mindless dinosaur fights. They know their demographics. Ghostbusters 2016 basically failed because there's no actual audience for the formula they were selling. At least not enough of an audience to sustain the costs.
To the point: I'll bet bottom-dollar that even with everything else going on, more than half of the viewers for Lady Ghostbusters were men. They were basically betting the studio's future on the say-so of a crowd who were pretty much
never going to actually show up for a movie like that. The studio made a loss of $125 million dollars on the movie. It's as simple as that. Cancelled because it's a money-black-hole.
As for the new ones, they're probably going to be cleverer with the demographics. To be clever and not dumb, they look at the profile of people
who actually go to see movies like that and they build the main cast around that. A couple of geeky young guys and girls is a better plan than whatever it was they were going for in GB 2016.
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