https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/new-all-female-ghostbusters-cast-767610 Excited, indifferent, or pessimistic?
Annoyed. Leveraging a classic movie to get fans to see an all-female lead cast is weak. Here's a thought, come up with an original script.
This won't work, they may have to just completely sanitize it and double-down on the CGI to cash in on that family friendly trough. These reboots sometimes neglect a lot of the original themes and metaphors that actually helped make the movie great, and just cash in on nostalgic scenes or moments. I think there was a lot in Ghostbusters about modern New York at the time, cultural clashes between yuppies, academia, bureaucrats and service workers; mid-life crises of unattached, unfulfilled professionals, the ghosts as remnants of the chaos from the '70s, along with a lot of templates for big-budget action films in urban settings. Granted, it's a whole other generation of teens and young adults to market to, so they might still succeed without placating all that whiny Gen-X nostalgia.
The entire pre-production news and hype cycle of the last 20 years or so has probably torpedoed more than a few original ideas and made now publicly run shops a lot more risk averse.
The best part about this is that I won't be paying to see this trash. Maybe I'll torrent if I have the time.
This is very true, and that is a sad state of affairs if you're a fan of movies... Thankfully you'll still get gems like Birdman/Whiplash/etc. every year from directors and producers who actually care about making good movies, but more often than not it's just a bunch of comic book adaptations that get rebooted every 5 years or Michael Bay action nonsense.
Or casting fictional white characters with real life black actors even! The insanity! What crazy scheme will Hollywood think of next?
There is no way in hell I will waste my time with this... All female cast in a comedy like Ghost Busters? I would rather watch Rosie O shave her legs while listening to Garofalo lecture a drunk fraternity kid about respecting womanhood. No no NO!
