So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[sheeplady]

So the Ghostbusters movie is shooting in Boston near the Tufts Floating Hospital (childrens). A few bunch of the kids put a sign in the window, "who you gonna call?" The cast/ crew spot the sign and the 4 female stars visit said hospital in costume. Kids and families love it. Tufts places photos on Facebook.

Awesome, right?

Well, apparently some people are so upset about the movie having an all female ghost busting cast that they attack the Tufts facebook page. Tufts even has to warn people to stop using profanity while deleting comments.

So my trivial thing that ticks me off is fan boys and girls who are obsessed with stupid shows/books/movies/ charactrrs so much that they lose touch with reality and how to interact with other people.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Seriously?!! You must be retired. Once you leave the house in the morning, you're at the mercy of a myriad of unforseen factors working against you. While I regularly leave early only to get to work late, I have on several occasions, believe it or not, left late and got to work early!

No, I have an hour drive each way in some of the worst traffic in the country. But that's irrelevant to the comment that an extra three minute light is the difference in being on time or being late. If that one light is an issue, it's easy to take it out of the equation.

 

[p51]

So the Ghostbusters movie is shooting in Boston near the Tufts Floating Hospital (childrens). A few bunch of the kids put a sign in the window, "who you gonna call?" The cast/ crew spot the sign and the 4 female stars visit said hospital in costume. Kids and families love it. Tufts places photos on Facebook.

Awesome, right?

Well, apparently some people are so upset about the movie having an all female ghost busting cast that they attack the Tufts facebook page. Tufts even has to warn people to stop using profanity while deleting comments.

So my trivial thing that ticks me off is fan boys and girls who are obsessed with stupid shows/books/movies/ charactrrs so much that they lose touch with reality and how to interact with other people.

Fair enough, but how ticked would many here be if they re-made Gone with the Wind or Casablanca with different genders?
I think Ghostbusters is a classic comedy in every sense of the phrase, something people will keep enjoying for generations.
So to make a cheap buck, and lacking the guts to try anything new, Hollywood is making a re-make with the 'flavor of the month' stars they can get cheaply.
Pathetic.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I don't think Rhea Butler telling off Sherman O'Hara would be quite the same picture, because Scarlett is actually a very feminist character, unlike that helpless simpering dipwit Melanie. Casablanca could work with the gender roles transposed -- someone like Barbara Stanwyck could have nailed the part of Regina Blaine, and some pretty boy like Robert Taylor could have done nicely in the Bergman role.

If you really want to see this debate descend into sad insecure pinheadedness, visit any Dr. Who discussion group and look for threads about "Should The Next Doctor Be A Woman?"

 

[HudsonHawk]

...sad insecure pinheadedness...

That's gold right there.

How long before they make a movie about Jane Bond 007?

 

[LizzieMaine]

If so, I look forward to reading leering beefcake articles about the "Bond Boys."

 

[Fading Fast]

If so, I look forward to reading leering beefcake articles about the "Bond Boys."

And if the model is consistent in its inverse, the men will be (as Lizzie said) handsome beefcakes who are also astrophysicists (or have some other PHD or a hyper-computer programing skills) with slightly edgy exteriors (owing to something bad that happened to them in their life) and Jane Bond's sex appeal will have no immediate effect on them, but underneath it, they are kind hearted and will be won over by Jane because her true character of decency and honor will be revealed over the course of the movie.

 

[p51]

If you really want to see this debate descend into sad insecure pinheadedness, visit any Dr. Who discussion group and look for threads about "Should The Next Doctor Be A Woman?"

I'm a Dr Who fan from way back (when the only way you could see it at all was ancient re-runs on PBS). I've heard all the arguments since the 80s...

 

[LizzieMaine]

I'm a Dr Who fan from way back (when the only way you could see it at all was ancient re-runs on PBS). I've heard all the arguments since the 80s...

Yep. It's the first question, the oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight....

 

[sheeplady]

Fair enough, but how ticked would many here be if they re-made Gone with the Wind or Casablanca with different genders?
I think Ghostbusters is a classic comedy in every sense of the phrase, something people will keep enjoying for generations.
So to make a cheap buck, and lacking the guts to try anything new, Hollywood is making a re-make with the 'flavor of the month' stars they can get cheaply.
Pathetic.

I wouldn't be, and Gone with the Wind is my favorite movie. I'd expect any remake to flounder so badly that it would be amusing more than anything else. Let them waste their money.

Talk about misplaced anger. In fact, I can't see attacking a children's hospital page over anything really. It's really low to leave nasty comments over a movie on a picture of a kid fighting a life threatening illness. These kids have enough stuff on their plate without some jerk getting his panties in a twist over a movie.

 

[p51]

Talk about misplaced anger. In fact, I can't see attacking a children's hospital page over anything really. It's really low to leave nasty comments over a movie on a picture of a kid fighting a life threatening illness. These kids have enough stuff on their plate without some jerk getting his panties in a twist over a movie.

You make a great point there.
But messing with a hallmark of some people's youth (especially people in their 40s and older, which are prime griping years) brings out the worst in some people.

 

[Stearmen]

That's gold right there.

How long before they make a movie about Jane Bond 007?

There have been several movies about the female Bond! She needed no gadgets to do her work. [video=youtube;0kfF3twDNq0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kfF3twDNq0[/video]

 

[LizzieMaine]

There have been several movies about the female Bond! She needed no gadgets to do her work.

I hear there's a remake in the works with Ben Affleck in the lead. "Mata Harry." They say Eastwood will direct.

 

[p51]

In the Jane Bond movies, I assume she'll get random men she just met to immediately do household chores for her? [huh]

 

[LizzieMaine]

Meanwhile, I'm sick and tired of "franchise reboots." Go ahead, make three big budget Spider-Man movies, and then *start over again.*

Not that there weren't tedious long-running franchises in the Era. I challenge anyone to tell one "Blondie" movie apart from any other. But at least they didn't "reboot the franchise" every three pictures. Maybe that's a francise due for a modern remake, with a grim, gritty look at contemporary suburban married life. Todd Field could direct.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

"The (insert classic film title) for a new generation!"

 

[ChiTownScion]

The worst- THE worst- remake of a classic was that Steve Martin, "Cheaper By the Dozen" thing a few years ago. Now generally, I like Steve Martin. But when you grew up reading the Gilbreths, reading about the Gibreths, haunting libraries looking for anything that you haven't already unearthed about the Gibreths, watching CBTD and "Belles on Their Toes" so many times that you've memorized the scripts, and even wanting to run away to Montclair New Jersey to beg to be adopted by the Gilbreths...knowing damn well that they've long since grown up and moved on, or worse....sorry. Some things should not be tampered with.

 

[ChiTownScion]

Meanwhile, I'm sick and tired of "franchise reboots." Go ahead, make three big budget Spider-Man movies, and then *start over again.*

Not that there weren't tedious long-running franchises in the Era. I challenge anyone to tell one "Blondie" movie apart from any other. But at least they didn't "reboot the franchise" every three pictures. Maybe that's a francise due for a modern remake, with a grim, gritty look at contemporary suburban married life. Todd Field could direct.

Nah. The reason the strip was funny, and the movies succeeded, was because Dagwood was upper class, and Blondie was a flapper who decided to settle down. Can you imagine Baby Dumpling playing with an Xbox?

It'd be like redoing Jiggs and Maggie and their short features: the reason that the Bringing Up Father strip was so funny is that it depicted the upward mobility of Irish Americans from shanty Irish immigrants to the middle class. Jiggs came into a lot of money but he just wanted to hang out with his pals and have his corned beef, and Maggie was always the one to put on airs. The older folks in my mom's family all "knew people like that," but were never honest enough to recognize their own parallels.

 

[Fading Fast]

Re ChiTownScion's post. I can't think of a modern remake of a classic that I liked better than the classic (or, other than for one or two, that I even liked). Perhaps it's because I'm such a classic movie fan, but I'm not sure that's it.

The new versions always seem forced into a modern perspective that undoes what made them special. "Sabrina," is a great example of this - a wonderful mid-'50s movie that captured the gender role boundaries and class and social distinctions and prejudices of its day, but when remade in the '90s, those boundaries and values were no longer the same and without them, the movie floundered without a real premise or real tension.

 

[p51]

The only movie remake I can think of that in my opinion improved on the original was John Carpenter's, "The Thing," as it was really close to the original story it was based on. The original film was just another schlocky monster movie with few elements of the original source material.

Nah. The reason the strip was funny, and the movies succeeded, was because Dagwood was upper class, and Blondie was a flapper who decided to settle down. Can you imagine Baby Dumpling playing with an Xbox?

But you know that's exactly what would happen. Look what was done to the Little Rascals and 3 Stooges movies. They all took place in modern times.