7 Reasons Men Need To Relax About The New Ghostbusters Movie
6. Everyone Involved Understands Comedy (And Movies) Better Than You
Let’s just look at some numbers shall we?
Paul Feig’s last movie, Spy, grossed $240 million, on a budget of $60 million. The film, which stars Ghostbuster Melissa McCarthy, currently has a 94% rating at Rotten Tomatoes – which is a rating most filmmakers would swap their first born for.
The movie he directed before that, The Heat, has a 65% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, which is admittedly a step-down, but still a fresh grade. The film which again stars Melissa McCarthy grossed approximately $230 million from a budget of about $40 million – making it the second highest grossing comedy in 2013, in the USA.
The film that Feig directed that preceded this was Bridesmaids. Bridesmaids starred two Ghostbusters in Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy, and the film was also written by Wiig. Bridesmaids is widely considered a cinematic landmark, and a cultural phenomenon. Off a budget of just $32 million, the film managed to gross nearly $300 million, and to this date is the highest grossing Judd Apatow production ever. The film currently has a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Basically, what this all means is that the people involved in Ghostbusters are the most successful producers of comedy films in the past six years. Their opinions, their vision, and their talents vastly outweigh the contributions of every keyboard warrior in the world – combined. These people know the business and produce the goods. And these women, in particular, are f*cking hilarious.
You can relax - these people understand how to do comedy a lot better than you do.