AVGN & Ghostbusters - Did Anyone Actually Pay Attention?

This has bugged me for the last few days and now finally I can't take it anymore, when was James ever sexist in that video? This may surprise many of you (well, any who didn't read the Bio), but I am a Feminist. What is a Feminist? It's someone who believes in equality amongst genders, as in things like equal pay, equal rights, equal respect etc. The problem occurs when our voices are drowned out by extremists (commonly known on the Internet as a Feminazi). The real problem occurs when the extreme views of a Femionazi is mistaken as the views of a Feminist.

What has this to do with the Angry Video Game Nerd? Well the person who plays him, James Rolfe, did a video about why he wasn't going to see the new Ghostbusters movie and review it. Apparently from this video he was accused as being a sexist misogynist.....

.....except that he wasn't.

Anyone who was actually paying attention to what he had said would have know that the only time he bough up the fact that the new Ghostbusters were female was when he had said that people were referring to this movie as the female Ghostbusters movie and his response was that calling it that was stupid cause it's like calling the original on the male Ghostbusters movie. This was simply in regards to the fact the movie is simply called Ghostbusters and that it should have had something added to it to distinguish it from the original. Nowhere in that entire video was any sexist comment made, no "I'm not watching it cause the cast are women" speech. As such, I have no idea which moronic idiot came up with that conclusion nor who was stupid enough to back them up without watching it themselves. It's these people which hinder our progress in equality when they make controversy where there is none and cause the hate to flow our way instead or theirs. If some were actual feminists, then shame on you for making a mountain out of a non-existing mole hill. Yes, there will always be misogynists causing trouble, but we need intelligent discussions, not flat out insults. When we start doing that, we drop ourselves to a lower level and all meaning is lost.

As for my view on the movie. It doesn't look good and many of his points I agree with. Why didn't they add a second title to the Ghostbusters name (you know, like theGhostbusters Re-energized option James gave) as it does make it slightly confusing as to where it stands. Though to be fair, most remakes/re-imaginings that use the same title as the original rarely turn out good. I found most of the jokes in the trailers to be cringe worthy (though I did chuckle at the selfie scene in the second trailer), the ghosts look meh and the script seems terrible. The job of a trailer is to get you pumped to see a movie, but this has failed badly. The only positive thing is the actresses, who do appear to be giving great performances in it. Personally, I really want to see Kate McKinnon play her role out as it seems most of the trailers revolve more around Melissa McCarthy and Leslie Jones characters and she never really got much time in them. I recon she will be my favorite Ghostbuster in this film.

I had a discussion about this with my brother and we agreed that a bad trailer doesn't mean a movie will be bad. Though given how badly most movie franchise remakes/reboots have been, it has an uphill climb and as pointed out that the history of bad trailers leading to bad movies doesn't help. As a great critic once pointed out that you could have the best actors put on their greatest performances, but if the script is terrible then it wont be enough to save the movie.

I can only hope that these trailers were just bad editing and that the actual movie will be great.