It’s hard to comment on the decision to make an all-female Ghostbusters troop without knowing the mentality of the studio or director Paul Feig going in. There’s a strong feminist movement online, rightfully so, but sometimes this causes overreaction. It could ignite PR greed; was the intention to cash in on the demands of the film community for female empowerment, or did this come from a good place with social commentary attached? We’ll never know, leaving us to judge only one thing – the finished product.
Feig’s Ghostbusters has received some of the worst fan backlash I’ve ever seen, and I had figured that we’d seen the worst of it until at least the film’s opening on July 15th.
There’s no way the following TV Spot doesn’t ignite an apocalypse of rage among those who have already decided they hate the new take on Ghostbusters, which introduces the all-female quartet of Jillian Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon), Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig), Patty Tolan (Leslie Jones), and Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy).
The above shot comes at the very end of the following trailer and reveals that Slimer isn’t simply a lonely soul roaming the streets of New York seeking food to binge on. In fact, he’s got a female companion – lipstick, blush, pretty hair and all. Is it Slimer’s sister, girlfriend or wife, we don’t know, but it’s hard to understand how this would make any sense in this universe without some sort of a backstory. They’re driving a car in the TV Spot, so maybe they’re a couple who crashed and died together? I dunno. My initial instinct was to roll my eyes, while Jon Barkan’s was to send the below image that may or may not be work safe (does it make you tingle?).
What do you guys think? Are you feeling slimed?
