7 Reasons Men Need To Relax About The New Ghostbusters Movie

Even if you finally acknowledge that you’re embarrassing yourself by displaying your crippling male insecurities so publicly, your boycott of the film won’t really matter in the grand scheme of things anyway.

Movie boycotts in the past have a pretty poor track record of affecting a box office return, because most of the time, calls for boycotts instantly make the masses more curious to watch the film causing all the buzz. The Da Vinci Code is probably the best example of this. Despite being one of the most boring films of all time, it found itself in an absolute poop storm of controversy when it was to be released, for reasons that make zero sense. Despite their volume and venom, the boycotts turned out to be wonderful for Columbia Pictures who went on to rake in over $750 million thanks in part to the free advertising they got from religious fundamentalists.

Other films that have been targeted for boycotts were certainly not harmed from all the free buzz either. The Passion of the Christ raked in an astonishing $612 million off a $30 million budget as controversy created curiosity. Additionally, the South Park movie, despite being rated R and facing all kinds of boycott calls upon release, managed to quadruple its budget in box office returns, and as a TV show is still on the air today after two decades.

So please, boycott. Nobody wants you in the theatre anyway. You’ll be happy, and everyone else who just wants to watch the damn movie will be happy too.