Ghostbusters: 21 WTF Moments In The Female Remake

8. Where Should We Keep The Nukes?

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All of the Ghostbusters are geniuses (aside from Patty, but let's assume for one moment that she has both streets smarts and common sense here). So why the hell does Kate McKinnon's oddball think that it's reasonable to drive around in Ecto-1 with what amounts to a nuke on the top of their car. Have they not heard about fallout? Radiation poisoning?

It's clearly unstable enough to be a concern (and a help when the plot requires it), and it seems to serve absolutely no purpose to the 'Busters aside from being coincidentally useful when Slimer steals the hearse and then drives it straight at the vortex.

And then there's the issue of Gilbert and Yates diving into the middle of a nuclear blast and emerging with only white hair for their troubles. In a film that positively smashes you in the face with faux scientific terms, seeing them flout established scientific laws and cause and effect is fatal.

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