7 Reasons Men Need To Relax About The New Ghostbusters Movie

Ever since it was announced that the new team would be made up of four women, there has been a huge amount of anger regarding the new Ghostbusters movie.

Now, it is quite clear that the majority of anger over the movie comes from a thinly-veiled form of sexism, manifested amongst angry men who inexplicably feel threatened any time women does anything other than sit in silence. 

However, there are many others that will claim (rather unconvincingly) that they are not upset by the casting of women, and that they just think remaking the film is a bad idea. These souls appeal to a more esoteric form of reasoning, claiming that this version will forever taint their association with an iconic property they grew up with. While these claims are at least a little more imaginative than the ones steeped in explicit misogyny, they’re still bunk.

If you find yourself genuinely angered by the production of this film, please don’t be. There are so many more issues deserving of your rage than the new Ghostbusters movie. And there are so many reasons that your fears are unfounded, unnecessary, and kind of embarrassing. Here we list just a few reasons why you don’t need to be angry, and why your arguments are basically pointless.

Enjoy life. Don’t wake up and get angry over a movie. Just relax. It's a beautiful world out there.

There seems to be this ongoing assumption that the past decade has been the first time in film history that remakes have become popular. There is a general frustration with unoriginal properties, and angry men have been using this fatigue to justify their rage for an all-female Ghostbusters film.

But the claim is garbage. There is nothing new about this remake fever in Hollywood because working with existing properties is the lifeblood of the industry. Hollywood has built its wealth on remakes, adaptations, reboots, and blatant plagiarism since the very dawn of modern movie production.

Just take half a minute to Google Hollywood remakes. The lists are astonishing long and the films that populate them weren’t all produced in the past decade. Even ridiculous titles you wouldn’t expect, have multiple remakes and adaptations. Over the past century, there have been eleven different versions of Robin Hood alone, despite the fact you can count the good ones on one finger. And since 1982, there has inexplicably been three filmed versions of the Broadway musical Annie - as if the world didn’t quite understand the message the first time round.

If your argument is that you’re sick of remakes or reboots, then you’re going to have a hard time watching anything for the rest of your life, because remakes run Hollywood and adaptation fuels art. Just embrace it - or make your own movie.