My final thoughts on Ghostbusters 2016 (for now)
My feelings on nuBusters are that I'm swinging like a pendulum back and forth between the urge to not ever see the movie, based on the overwrought overreaction to James Rolfe's video from a couple months ago, and the urge to rush out and see it right now, based on archetypal GamerGate horseshit.
And, to be clear, I fully recognize (and indeed have even said before) that both of those are asinine reasons to see or not see the movie. I'm not going to boycott the movie because "hurrrr feminazis sjws women r dumb durrrr." But at the same time, I'm also not going to go out and watch this movie just because a lot of people are saying that we "must" be more supportive of women in leading roles or whatever, either, apparently regardless of the actual quality (or, perhaps, lack thereof) of the movie in question.
Good reasons to not see the movie are 1) I thought the trailers sucked ass (and if one is no longer allowed to decide, yay or nay, about viewing a movie based on the trailers anymore, then fuck off... it's not my fault you released a horrendous trailer that doesn't properly reflect your movie), and 2) specific reviewers that I like and usually agree with said that the movie sucked or was merely okay at best.
Good reasons to see the movie are 1) other people that I know personally whose tastes I feel I share have seen it and said they enjoyed it (and not for social justice reasons or whatever, but because they actually and simply thought the movie was funny).
So... yeah... it's still up in the air as to whether or not I will see this movie. I think that, ultimately, I will see it, eventually. I think the deciding factor for me as to whether I'll go see nuBusters in theaters or not, however, is the fact that I didn't even go to see the new Star Wars in the theaters. As such, I think I'll be okay with just waiting for the DVD/Blu-ray of nuBusters to be released and see that then, too (and, no, I haven't even seen Star Wars in the comfort of my own home yet, either, even though the disc versions of that have been available for a while). Maybe I'll like nuBusters, maybe I won't, maybe I'll just shrug and wonder why there was such a big deal about it, either way. Probably I won't post about it again until after I've seen it myself, unless some other big stinky dumpster fire gets ignited by either side of the "goddamn imbecilic shit-encrusted coin" again, but even then, I'll try to just pass on posting about all of that shit anymore (at least as far as nuBusters is concerned).
In any case, regardless of all of that, the harassment and abuse and foul behavior from both sides of the shit-coin are beyond the pale, but that dross, in my opinion, is above and beyond considerations of whether or not the movie itself is actually worth seeing, on the whole.
And, to be clear, I fully recognize (and indeed have even said before) that both of those are asinine reasons to see or not see the movie. I'm not going to boycott the movie because "hurrrr feminazis sjws women r dumb durrrr." But at the same time, I'm also not going to go out and watch this movie just because a lot of people are saying that we "must" be more supportive of women in leading roles or whatever, either, apparently regardless of the actual quality (or, perhaps, lack thereof) of the movie in question.
Good reasons to not see the movie are 1) I thought the trailers sucked ass (and if one is no longer allowed to decide, yay or nay, about viewing a movie based on the trailers anymore, then fuck off... it's not my fault you released a horrendous trailer that doesn't properly reflect your movie), and 2) specific reviewers that I like and usually agree with said that the movie sucked or was merely okay at best.
Good reasons to see the movie are 1) other people that I know personally whose tastes I feel I share have seen it and said they enjoyed it (and not for social justice reasons or whatever, but because they actually and simply thought the movie was funny).
So... yeah... it's still up in the air as to whether or not I will see this movie. I think that, ultimately, I will see it, eventually. I think the deciding factor for me as to whether I'll go see nuBusters in theaters or not, however, is the fact that I didn't even go to see the new Star Wars in the theaters. As such, I think I'll be okay with just waiting for the DVD/Blu-ray of nuBusters to be released and see that then, too (and, no, I haven't even seen Star Wars in the comfort of my own home yet, either, even though the disc versions of that have been available for a while). Maybe I'll like nuBusters, maybe I won't, maybe I'll just shrug and wonder why there was such a big deal about it, either way. Probably I won't post about it again until after I've seen it myself, unless some other big stinky dumpster fire gets ignited by either side of the "goddamn imbecilic shit-encrusted coin" again, but even then, I'll try to just pass on posting about all of that shit anymore (at least as far as nuBusters is concerned).
In any case, regardless of all of that, the harassment and abuse and foul behavior from both sides of the shit-coin are beyond the pale, but that dross, in my opinion, is above and beyond considerations of whether or not the movie itself is actually worth seeing, on the whole.