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100% serious.
That makes me a sad panda.
100% serious.
Conveniently posted the day before release, too. Perhaps a month or two ago I might believe more that maybe she wrote that on her own voluntarily over possibly Sony asking her to write something semi positive to tug some heart strings on the old fans with the loss of Ramis.This is probably not going to make an iota of difference for some of you, but read the whole essay if you haven't already.
On My Dad Harold Ramis and Passing the ‘Ghostbusters’ Torch to a New Generation of Fans - Splitsider
Essay from Harold Ramis’ daughter Violet Ramis Stiel.
"As much as I wanted to stomp my foot and align myself with the opposition, there was no way I could stand behind the viciousness and ugliness that seemed to fuel these fundamentalists. From flat-out rejection of women as funny, to remarks about the actors’ looks, to the invocation of GB84 as ‘untouchable’ and disgust with ‘reboot culture’ generally, I was shocked by the anger and outrage. Are these people for real? I wondered. Sure, the timing sucks, but damn! I mourn my dad’s absence in this world as much, if not more, than anyone, but for people to say that he is “rolling in his grave” or would never have let a female-centered cast happen is INSANE. In his personal life, Harold Ramis was a kind, generous, and gracious person. Professionally, he was always about sharing the spotlight and making the other guy look good. Please, stop using my dad as an excuse to hate the new Ghostbusters. It degrades his memory to spew bile in his name."
I don't get why that is funny either. but I finally figured out the
Mike Hat joke.
My- Kat. Mike Hat. that's why he calls his dog a cat because of it's nickname, Mike Hat.
Of course, the secretary is too stupid to even remember how to breath, so he wouldn't think like that in general. let alone to cover up the fact that his new boss doesn't like cats and he tries to quickly change the subject and... oh god, my head broke.
we pretty much know this movie is another paul feig dumpster fire. and i can't imagine how they stretch it 2 hours,let alone 4...but it's going to be a long weekend to see what happens.
This is probably not going to make an iota of difference for some of you, but read the whole essay if you haven't already.
On My Dad Harold Ramis and Passing the ‘Ghostbusters’ Torch to a New Generation of Fans - Splitsider
Essay from Harold Ramis’ daughter Violet Ramis Stiel.
"As much as I wanted to stomp my foot and align myself with the opposition, there was no way I could stand behind the viciousness and ugliness that seemed to fuel these fundamentalists. From flat-out rejection of women as funny, to remarks about the actors’ looks, to the invocation of GB84 as ‘untouchable’ and disgust with ‘reboot culture’ generally, I was shocked by the anger and outrage. Are these people for real? I wondered. Sure, the timing sucks, but damn! I mourn my dad’s absence in this world as much, if not more, than anyone, but for people to say that he is “rolling in his grave” or would never have let a female-centered cast happen is INSANE. In his personal life, Harold Ramis was a kind, generous, and gracious person. Professionally, he was always about sharing the spotlight and making the other guy look good. Please, stop using my dad as an excuse to hate the new Ghostbusters. It degrades his memory to spew bile in his name."
I really hope you're referring to the reboot and not the article written by Ramis's daughter that was quoted in your post.This is probably not going to make an iota of difference for some of you, but read the whole essay if you haven't already.
On My Dad Harold Ramis and Passing the ‘Ghostbusters’ Torch to a New Generation of Fans - Splitsider
Essay from Harold Ramis’ daughter Violet Ramis Stiel.
"As much as I wanted to stomp my foot and align myself with the opposition, there was no way I could stand behind the viciousness and ugliness that seemed to fuel these fundamentalists. From flat-out rejection of women as funny, to remarks about the actors’ looks, to the invocation of GB84 as ‘untouchable’ and disgust with ‘reboot culture’ generally, I was shocked by the anger and outrage. Are these people for real? I wondered. Sure, the timing sucks, but damn! I mourn my dad’s absence in this world as much, if not more, than anyone, but for people to say that he is “rolling in his grave” or would never have let a female-centered cast happen is INSANE. In his personal life, Harold Ramis was a kind, generous, and gracious person. Professionally, he was always about sharing the spotlight and making the other guy look good. Please, stop using my dad as an excuse to hate the new Ghostbusters. It degrades his memory to spew bile in his name."
Harold deserved better than this badly written travesty, at least that is what he told me after I saw this POS.
I knew I should'nt have overindulged with that double Pepperoni pizza
Heres to him haunting the people responsible! :thumbsup
I really hope you're referring to the reboot and not the article written by Ramis's daughter that was quoted in your post.
"The personification of a cash grab." The best line to describe the reboot.GB news versus angry joe. Angry joe seems a tad more real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCP937VRfI4
the writer-director almost singlehandedly made it OK for funny women to carry film comedies with Bridemaids, The Heat and Spy.
This is the kind of thing that irritates me:
He makes decent movies, but why do his fans have to pretend that he invented female led comedies? This isn't written by a 4 year old right? They are aware that movies actually happened prior to 2010?
Sure but when was the last time such a string of women led movies happened before Feig and crew?
"The personification of a cash grab." The best line to describe the reboot.
This is the kind of thing that irritates me:
He makes decent movies, but why do his fans have to pretend that he invented female led comedies? This isn't written by a 4 year old right? They are aware that movies actually happened prior to 2010?
(had to look up some dates) but Bridesmaids was 2011...the last one I personally enjoyed that was female led PRIOR to 2011 would probably be Easy A, 2010. If STRING of hits is the requirement...probably Tina Fey's run in the 2000's.
But they go back to favorites from my childhood, like 9to5, or classics from the 90's like Fried Green Tomatoes, all the way back to the golden age of Hollywood when Gentlemen Preferred Blondes.
Should there probably be more? No question. When you do the numbers side by side the number of female led movies of any genre get dwarfed, but that doesn't make it any less silly to pretend that Paul Fieg is the one who discovered that women can be funny. Women were proving that (and setting box office records) long before he learned how to walk.
Maybe. I don't want to take away from him...I like some of his movies, and I do think it's good to have more women in lead roles so, more power to him on that score.it's the craziness of the internet at work and the cult of feig. this is why we think some articles are sony bought. it sounds like they are trying to pump him up to be some kind of womens rights pioneer or something.
It'll just prove to the world feig was right.. you could insult fans and get away with it...and we want more crap like this.
IMO it just proves that "Die hard fans" don't get to be the gate keepers of fandom.
get rid of the gate keepers and you get:
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