And so I'm being thrown into a match with a wild fuckboy, making it clear that he won't go see this film because he's read bad reviews. So it's like alright, I'll buy that, even though every review I saw was generally positive and it's like where the heck are you seeing these bad reviews? And he's like how do you know it's going to be good if you haven't seen it....
and I'm like you JUST contradicted yourself up the wall mate!! But he keeps on, and on and on, and I'm stuck in this weird fight with a 'man of science' wanting to know my favourite films, then brings up lady Ghostbusters and goes off on a rant and won't listen to what I have to say. Oh but he will listen when I ask if he won't see it because it's got women in it? Then I was told not to bring gender into it... and yet he goes on to be the rudest little bitch about Leslie Jones, and at this point lads I'm completely done with this odd angst filled freak I never asked to speak to in the first place. He says that some of his favourite films have strong female leads, so I say if it's Kill Bill... then well done you. (Detect the sarcasm)
And my boyfriend put a stop to it.
But anyway I saw Ghostbusters, and let me tell you, if you're reading negative reviews about this film, and they are written by men? Then fucking put that away and I'll lay down the truth.
So I'm pissed off at the craze which manages to put down the whole cast and brands them as 'ruining' the original, and at the same time singles out Leslie Jones with horrid racist trolling. Seriously, it's freaking heinous.
Let me start this review/rightful rant with the main selling factor of Ghostbusters, the original was great and funny... but this, it's hilarious! Until you watch it, you will understand that it combines elements of SNL with each woman's individual comedy, and it god damn works well.
I cried!
I literally cried with laughter at two specific parts, concerning all three main cast members.
And let me tell you, Leslie Jones I would say was actually the funniest member of the Ghostbusters team. She has some of the funniest lines and pulls off her character well. At the end of the day, all of the Ghostbusters cast worked well together, and I haven't laughed that hard since Deadpool.
The reboot starts off with actually a relatively scary introduction, but only gets funnier from there. Two old friends are brought back together, Kristen Wiig - Erin Gilbert and Melissa McCarthy - Abby Yates, by the promise of ghosts after being apart due to academic purposes. So I've decided that I quite like it when, main characters start the film off in a feud. But with Ghostbusters, this time around there's no notice of the pair making up, they just sort of bond through catching ghosts, and there's very little meaningful parts, which I think works. That isn't to say that the film is just laugh upon laugh constantly, it's quite a lot more than that. Abby's lab partner Gillian Holtzmann is weird but smart, and the three gently start finding ghosts. Where Leslie Jones - Patty Tolan, steps in and joins after seeing them catch one and therefore leaves her job at the subway in order to put herself in a "room full of nightmares".
The gang hire out the room above a Chinese restaurant along with good looking, but dumb dumb receptionist Chris Hemsworth - Kevin. And let me tell you, he took on a lot with this character, and yet happily delivered. In parts I have to say he may have stolen the show.
So a ghost invasion ensues, thanks the help of long time freak and insecure male Neil Casey - Rowan North, who has a problem with the living and wants New York City back to the 1920-30s it seems, only with the dead walking around 'annoying' the living.
I realise I may not be selling this film well, due to the rage towards old time fans and trolls. But I implore you to see this, take your daughters and maybe cover their eyes at one part where the bird is flipped. But this film, it was needed, whether or not it was going to be insanely funny.
And if you think in anyway this reboot does not do the original justice, then open your fucking eyes and see all three remaining cast members make cameo appearances and GET TO FUCK!
It seems to be a fan-base of the original wanting to insert themselves head first into Bill Murray's nether regions who want this to be a flop, but it wasn't, it's the total opposite! And Bill Murray wasn't even that funny in it, Dan Aykroyd has the funniest lines out of the three, and also Ernie Hudson's last line ended the film with the whole cinema laughing.
And note that Dan Aykroyd isn't happy with the racism being thrown around, so you're not impressing anyone, literally. I feel from my encounter with the boy who refused to see a film with funny and strong females leads, had a main problem with Leslie Jones, calling her out on acting like 'a stereotypical black woman', whilst Ernie Hudson was 'totally normal dude in the orginal'. And I've found in my time in the adult world, in the time of opening my eyes, if there's one thing white cis men hate more on this earth than women owning the fact that they are a woman... it is a black woman owning their race and gender.
And that audience makes me sadder than anything on earth.
Go watch Ghostbusters and cheer yourself up from the world, I mean Ozzy Ozbourne makes a cameo!
