Paul Feig Says ‘So Many Trump Supporters’ Lashed Out at Female ‘Ghostbusters,’ Then Trump Mocked the Reboot and ‘Everybody Went F—ing Cannibal’

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/paul-feig-blames-donald-trump-ghostbusters-female-backlash-1236157896/

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  1. > “The political climate of the time was really weird, with Hillary Clinton running for office in 2016,” Feig said. “There were a lot of dudes looking for a fight. When I was getting piled on, on Twitter, I’d go back and see who they were. So many were Trump supporters. Then Trump came out against us. He was like: ‘They’re remaking Indiana Jones without Harrison Ford. You can’t do that. And now they’re making Ghostbusters with only women. What’s going on?’ and got all upset.”

    > “Everybody went fucking cannibal,” Feig continued. “It turned the movie into a political statement, as if to say: ‘If you’re pro-women, you’re going to go see this. If you’re not, then …’ I didn’t think it mattered at all that the main characters were women, but people brought a lot of baggage.”

  4. He’s still whining about people not liking his mediocre ass reboot? Still??

  5. Can we please put this to rest? Everything sucked. The people who criticized this movie sight unseen for having female Ghostbusters sucked. The movie itself also sucked. The new round of reboots also suck (child Ghostbusters? A family of Ghostbusters? GTFO). And by the way, Ghostbusters II (1989) also sucked! There are no winners in the Ghostbusters franchise. There is one pretty good movie and a legacy of trash.

  7. I (a dyed-in-the-wool liberal) gave this movie a chance. Twice. It was painfully long and unfunny. There was no script and not enough good riffing to cobble together a feature. It had nothing to do with politics for me. It was just a bad movie.

  9. Fuck trump but also this reboot was godawful so find another excuse or move on Paul.

  11. God, I remember how ridiculous the commentary surrounding this was. The AVGN really got unfairly dragged.

  12. I, as much as anyone, would hate to agree with a Trump supporter, but the movie wasn’t great.

  13. This would have sucked even if it was a reboot with all men, it would have just been another Adam Sandler, Rob Snyder style comedy, yes there were bad actors trying to attack it for stupid culture war reasons, but Paul is one of those bad actors to, just from the other side, all he did was galvanize his critics

  14. Look. I really tried to like this movie. But it was just bad. And boring. I still haven’t caught the new ones, mainly because I love the original cast and I’m upset Egon isn’t in them. I am happy people enjoyed them and that when I do watch them will Enjoy them. But damn is Egon missed.

  15. Fuck Trump, but also I have no issues with a female led movie. This particular movie just sucked, idk what else he wants to hear.

  16. When you do need to cope from your own incompetence and life will give you an easy way out.

  19. Trump is awful. Ghostbusters reboot was awful. The running bit about wontons was painful.

  21. “Four female Ghostbusters? The feminists are taking over!”

    2016 was okay, but not great. Afterlife and Frozen Empire were awesome!

  22. The Plinkett review of this film is hilarious, though

  23. I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but lets be freaking 100% honest here. This movie was trash to begin with.

  24. Now it’s trumps fault the movie was bad and horribly written/acted? I wonder what he blames next? Global warming? Aliens? Actual ghosts?

  25. The movie wasn’t funny but the shit actresses got was horrible, Leslie Jones in particularly as the only black actress on the film the amount of online hate she got was awful even more awful her agent convinced her to do it.

  28. I mean, Fuck Trump for sure, but the movie was really bad. I’ve saw it in theaters and even tried given it a couple rewatches on tv. It’s a terrible movie and hardly funny.

  29. I despise Donald Trump and thought this remake was a pile of shit. Why can’t Paul Feig just admit that sometimes as a writer/director you just swing and miss?

  30. Yeah ummm nope. The movie sucked then and it sux now. Humour level is for 10 year old kids. Color scheme and effects were Goosebumps level crap. It just sucked hard, the dialogue crap and McCarthy needs to stop making movies.

    I hate Trump and hate this reboot almost as much.

  31. It just wasn’t good. It’s wild that I’ve enjoyed performances from the entire cast, but all together they made this clunker. I think I chuckled once during the whole movie at something Hemsworth did that I can’t remember now. The newer ones are even worse.

  32. must be difficult going through life getting mad about everything that is even slightly outside of your mental comfort zone

  33. The one nonpartisan issue that unites the country: that movie was unnecessary and it also sucked.

  34. Didn’t they meat industry sue Oprah for talking about mad Cow disease? Just let the Ghostbusters sue him lol

  35. I mean that reboot was fucking terrible… Trump didn’t ruin that movie, Hollywood did.

  36. This guy will just keep inventing excuse after excuse without ever admitting that the movie just sucked and the cast wasn’t appealing, regardless of their gender.

  37. No amount of bipartisan support would have improved tis movie. They had grenades that blew up the ghosts. GTFO

  38. He’s losing a lot of the goodwill he earned from “Ernest Goes To Camp.”

  39. There’s an interesting coincidence where movies and shows that are genuinely bad for 100 different reasons are always the first to blame the audience and specifically people on the right. I don’t believe any of it anymore. You made a bad movie; the majority of people on each side of the aisle thinks this about the Ghostbusters reboot, the Acolyte, Rings of Power, Star Trek Discovery etc.

  41. Lifelong dem voter here, movie was just unfunny and pandering.

  42. -_- bad movie being called bad by a bad person doesn’t make a bad movie good. Lord. This isn’t news.

  44. Paul, I love your work on Bridesmaids, Spy and I’m thankful for bringing the Soup back.
    But the movie just sucked. Much love but it’s not about Trump supporters here

  45. I’ll have to watch the movie, with all the hate I actually want to like it. I don’t like a lot of movies though

  47. Both can be true. It was just bad, then rightwingers used it to shit on how they hate all current things.

    Same thing happened to the Acolyte. It was just terrifyingly bad, then rightwingers appropriated the subject and before i knew it, my Youtube recommendations turned into an alt right pipeline.

  48. Female ghost busters was hilarious. I rewatch it once a year.

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