Thought I was in the b . net forums holy fuck <| sep |> This was bound to happen . We ' ve played like dogshit all game <| sep |> I don ' t agree with rebooting at all tbh . Rebooting a successful or good movie is almost always gonna be regarded worse , and movies that are maybe worth being rebooted like it had a good script and story but the acting was bad , it didn ' t have the budget , etc . will never be rebooted as it ' s not a guaranteed moneymaker . Rebooting to me , should be like restoring ancient pottery . You don ' t rebuild it with garish glues and cements , you fix whats wrong while preserving the good . As for ghostbusters , the cast itself wasn ' t the issue , theoretically , as I said . The fact is though , by making a female focused movie , they by definition threw out half the talent trying out . The problem with the movie is that every character was noticeably worse than the original , the style of the movie was 100 % different , and sense of humour was completely off , and the special effects were abysmal . In the original Ghostbusters , the black guy was awesome . He was nononsense , an everyman who wanted a good job , and it was funny because he was the straightman to the rest of the characters deadpan zaniness . The secretary was a badass , unruffleable character who was never made fun of , was intelligent , and was funny because she could not give less of a shit , and got her job by being damn good at it . Contrast that with making Hemsworth this dumb as a rock , pretty boy whose sole bit of humour was being made fun of for being hella hot and really fucking dumb . The movie was a critical pan , commercial flop , and honestly far more sexist than the originals , and the only reason why it was ever supported was as a weird flag for saying women are funny . No shit women can be funny , but why pick the worst movie possible for it when you have all most of Sandra Bullock ' s movies , Bridesmaid ' s , even some of Melissa Mccarthy ' s stuff is pretty good . People rallied for it because it was said if you were against it you were sexist , and that ' s basically how it earned any money at all , as pity money or a token of principle despite being an objectively bad movie . And honestly , I didn ' t even like the original that much ! I agree that the second was a cashgrab . The 2008 game though was pretty good .