Paul Feig says US presidential election was to blame for ‘Ghostbusters’ reboot box office failure

Hey Feig: The script sucked!

Dan Aykroyd is right. The film was just bad. Comedies like this need a grounded character, but all the characters were wacky. The improvisational stuff went on too long, reminding us of the current product of SNL. The special effects were bad. The villain sucked as did the ending. The original had some mile suspense and thrills, this one had none of that. There were some people who boycotted the film just based on the premise, but most people could tell it sucked just from the trailer.

Give it up! The movie wasn't funny, Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon are not funny, there was no chemistry among any of the leads. Bridesmaids was a huge hit so it's not that the public isn't ready for a female comedy. This move just sucked. Period.

Why would he want to rehash that mess?

Paul, accept a failure and move on. Stop playing the blame game.

I blame Milo Yianapolous. Remember he was deleted off twitter for not being a fan of Leslie Jones’ performance?

Stuff like that is why Trump won.

I typically love his work (especially with McCarthy and Wiig) but Ghostbusters 2016 was just a shitty movie. There’s no reason to rehash it. Everyone involved has moved on to better things.

This was one of the worst movies ever made. He sounds insane.

I actually didn't have a big problem with the women characters.

It was the story, dialog, and plot that sucked.

CLOSET KWEEN ALERT!

Paul Fag's GHOSTBUSTERS has some virulently anti-male gags in it, such as firing the guns into the giant ghost's crotch at the end.

Being pro-woman is one thing; being anti-male and trashing men all movie is another.

R11 I thought people were just being hyperbolic but you're right. Chris Hemsworth's character was an embarrassment. The villain was a swipe at male geeks, and of course that ending was totally stupid. This conception of girl power is so played out. People don't want to see overpowered characters in action movies period. Relatable characters of either gender is what gets people to care.

There was a bizarre amount of vitriol aimed at the movie before it was released. Mostly from trolls and regressives who thought attacking straw feminists made them look smart.

But then the movie was released, and conservatives and liberals could unite in their disdain for such a crappy movie.

Thanks for bring us together, Paul!

The movies wasn't terrible, it was just OK and comedies shouldn't be just OK. The girls should have been the original characters daughters continuing their work. AND the Hemsworth kid has zero comedy chops and was awful in his part.

“'I think some really brilliant author…needs to write a book about 2016 and how intertwined we were with Hillary [Clinton] and the anti-Hillary movement,' Feig said..."

Bwahahaha academics of the future will see how intertwined a lazy warmed over remake of an also lazy, but charming, older film and international geopolitics really are.

Honest Trailer shows the many ways this film was awful.

no One even mentions how awful bill murrays cameo was. That tells you how awful everything else was.

Feig is delusional.

That movie benefited from way more goodwill than it deserved *because of* the right-wing backlash. When I went to see it, the audience was force-laughing at gags that were objectively unfunny, they were that desperate to support it. The movie made a small profit, and Feig should thank the unhinged MRAs for that. Had it not been for them, Ghostbusters '16 would have lost money.

And, honestly, I thought the movie was sexist toward women. The female characters didn't remotely act like scientists, they were a sexist's stereotype of laydee scientists, and, given that, the "girl power" bullshit was insulting.

It seems like some studios have noticed how these right-wing backlashes benefit mediocre movies and have tried to capitalize on it. I'm 90 percent sure that's what Elizabeth Banks was trying to do when she tried to blame men for the failure of the Charlie's Angels reboot. Unfortunately for her, no one took the bait.

Back to Feig, I heard that he desperately wanted a dance number toward the end of the movie, and someone higher up told him no. Reportedly Feig broke down crying on set when that terrible idea was shot down.

Just tried to re-watch the trailer. Recall I could only watch part of it when I first heard of the movie coming out. Remember the Conservative backlash against the movie that ALL of the characters seemed to be trying to be copying masculine stereotypes but dismally failing, and therefore appeared almost indistinguishable. Personalities weren't distinct or different from each other either.

Why does Hollywood think that super powerful, successful women can't be sexy? It's either pretty and dumb and even bland or the total opposite (and still bland?) Give me the woman heroines of the past movies who were complex characters, fascinating to watch, and far more inspirational then the characters in this Ghostbusters' reboot.

They did shoot a dance number but it was cut. It played during the closing credits, much to my confusion.

Paul is a cutey, I'd do him.

The alt-right used the movie to give their followers something to rile against. Milo Y. orchestrated the whole thing of down voting the official trailer.

Lets face it "Ghostbusters" wasn't a great movie either, And for all the bitching about the re-make...I have two words for you "Ghostbusters II!

So Hillary is to blame for this too?

R23 RAPED MY CHILDHOOD WAAAAAAAAHHHH

R17 I'm surprised they got Bill to show up.

R21 he was kind of cute as Mr Pool on Sabrina.