I promise you will cry tears of joy. At least, I most certainly did. I've seen the movie twice now and the same scene keeps getting me all choked up.
The female led reboot of the beloved "Ghostbusters" franchise has recieved ridiculous amounts of scorn and criticism since the day it was announced. The film's trailer is the most "disliked" video in Youtube history, with a comments section so vile it will make you lose your faith in humanity. This sexist backlash was a complete surprise to me, to be honest. As a feminist in the year 2016, I didn't think that a silly remake of an already silly movie would cause such a stir. But here we are, everyone. For as many men claiming that their "childhoods are ruined", I am happy to say that there are a lot of kids whose childhoods will be MADE by this reboot.
I am a 19 year old girl, and "Ghostbusters" changed my life. I sat in a movie theater and watched four intelligent, bad ass women fight ghosts and be funny as hell. If I had seen this movie when I was a little girl, I would have been sucked in. I'd be playing Ghostbusters all day every day, feeling strong and awesome. This Halloween, I hope your neighborhood is filled with little girls wielding proton packs and wild hairdo's. Kate McKinnon steals the show with every scene she's in as the ecentric engineer, Holtzman. Every smirk, every adjustment of her goggles is pure joy to witness. Her character is the reason I cried in the middle of an ACTION COMEDY. There is a scene where Holtzman is blasting ghosts with the Ghostbusters theme playing in the background. The bad assery of this sequence left me a puddle of tears. Girls can do anything. Girls can love science. They can star in action movies and completely kill it.
Ps. It's way funnier and scarier than the original, so that's pretty cool.
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