Ghostbusters vs masculinity's downranking campaign against "women's" movies and TV

Derrrrp, the topic/thread has me a little oversensitized. I honestly hadn’t even heard the opinion that II was reviled until the reboot. I’m the sort that owns a cartoon print of Vigo the Carpathian sooooo.

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That was savage. Also pretty accurate. My excitement for Ghostbusters 2 blinded me to its mediocrity upon release but I haven’t seen it more than a few times since then.

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Stay through the end credits, in that case. (Not just for the stinger scene, but relevant to this topic as well.)

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Yeah, it doesn’t hold up well.

That being said, Peter MacNicol pretty much saved that movie on his own. Without him I don’t think it’d be rewatchable.

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They’re not PERFORMATIVELY sexy for a male gaze.

They are, however, PANTS-SCORCHINGLY sexy for someone who appreciates character competency.
(I was sitting next to a friend who pointed out that she would MUCH rather see more Holtzmann than Kevin from an attractiveness point of view.)

The combination of those two is REALLY threatening to Dudes - where, by “Dudes”, I mean “whiny manbabies”. (Meanwhile, the buddy above and my spouse are both thinking about cosplaying Holtzmann and Yates respectively at Halloween, and I am thrilled.)

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NSFW (the imgur bathing toon)

Can’t be seen enough.

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Oh man, totally. He’s about the only reason I’d watch it again. Which I would, except that all the local libraries have at least two holds on every available copy.

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Heh, we all take turns posting it. :wink:

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I especially like the farmer-blow at the end that’s seemingly the last straw for the voyeur.

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“Everything you’re doing is bad. I want you to know this.” :laughing:

Agreed about Peter MacNicol. Also the scene with Egon and Venkman as fake ConEd workers arguing with the police and real ConEd worker never fails to get several laughs out of me.

“Yo”

But… that’s really about it. Don’t get me started on how much it bothers me how the Statue of Liberty’s gown “flows” while she’s walking (yes, with so much wrong about that whole set-piece, the whole gown thing irks me perhaps more than any other).

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Are you an expert on beings drippingst with goo?

I usually am right beside you on the quibbliest bits (and bits and bits) but the feely-slime doesn’t have a predictable response.

Great, now I want to buy the old GB pen and paper RPG to see their entries on slime logic :confused:

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Yes, keep it going I thought :slight_smile:

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I do appreciate the comic, but I’d love it if it was in spoiler tags with a little [NSFW] note above it.

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I support this course of action just because the GBI role-playing game had the BEST encumbrance rules ever.

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Better? Excuses btw.

Hooray!

No harm done.

Puzzling indeed! Much like a lot of the weird conservative whinging I encounter that “you just can’t do X anymore…” which suggests a real lack of strength of conviction.

Werd!

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You taught me a new thing :grinning: I was thinking of it as a snot rocket.

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Well, I grew up in farm country. Cornfields, grain silos, tractors, feed stores, and farmers blowing snot on the ground.

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Last night I asked my husband if he wanted to see the new Ghostbusters film. He asked if any of the old cast were in and I explained it was all new with four women.

His response, “That sounds way more interesting, when can we see it?”

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