7 Reasons Men Need To Relax About The New Ghostbusters Movie

5. The Studio Is Backing The Film (No Matter How Much You Complain)

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Ghostbusters wrapped principal photography last September. It is May now. That means for nine months the film has been in post-production, and the studio brains trust has been putting its enormous resource and finances into polishing the final product, and constructing the marketing machine around it.

The film, in other words, is done. Ghostbusters 2016 is happening.

This realisation should help you relax for a couple of reasons. Firstly, if the film was legitimately the disaster that you're claiming to be worried about, it wouldn't have gotten this far in the post production pipeline. If there was a genuine consensus that the picture was sh*t, it would be delayed over and over again, until it could be buried in February. Film studios have no qualms about ruthlessly cutting losses on tentpole productions if the need arises. Therefore, even if the film isn't perfect, it's not going to be the catastrophe that MRA's are pretending to fear.

Secondly, though, all the male tears are really just helping generate even more buzz for the film. The ridiculous and juvenile tantrums have given the film the most incredible free publicity, and the vicious vitriol has made regular punters sympathise with the cast and crew. Your rage is literally helping the thing that you want to hinder.

You would be much better just to chill out and accept that it's here. If you want, you can silently boycott the film, and hope that it affects the bottom line. A surprising box office drop speaks much louder than any YouTube downvote ever has.

Although even boycotts are hugely problematic...

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