Gender is NOT Quality (Ghostbusters 2016)

WARNING NOTE: If you can't handle my opinion, feel free to go back to your safe space and grow up.

In the last hours I've seen threads and videos about people bitching about Ghostbusters 2016. This is not a movie I'd like to see, I've seen the trailer, it sucks because of the quality of the movie (Adam Sandler-sque jokes, awful comedy, the fact that it's a reboot based on the sole title of the movie...). I'm not a fan of the Ghostbusters, I've never seen the movies -though I'd like to watch them someday.

My brother, who likes watching movies, told methat the movie has a Metacritic has a 60% of average score (normal, not by users) and Rotten Tomatoes has a 75%. While the movie in the '84 has a score of 67 (8.7/10 of users'), and in Rotten Tomatoes has a 97%. I decided to research more.

Then here it comes: critics get called "sexist" for saying it's a bad movie ( www.inquisitr.com/3294139/ghos… ), the newspapers/magazines say that the movie is good because girls rule and women are funny ( cdn.discordapp.com/attachments… ), surreal reviews by SJWs and feminists ( i.imgur.com/RQu6Tiz.jpg ) and so on.

First of all, critics are there for something, they have to criticize comics, movies, books, and a long list in order to tell the audience what they want to know about the products. If a product is mediocre, people have to know; if a product has a good quality, people have to know as well. That's the basics of a critic. Honest critics that say the movie is bad for X, Y and Z should be awarded by a medal, because they are exposed to the anti-social social justice warriors who yell at them just because they didn't like their opinion.

A critic who doesn't like the movie but feels like HAS to say that the movie is good is a real problem, because they might think that SJWs will hug them with open arms and won't be harrassing them anymore. The job of a critic is evaluate movies, not satisfy people. Critics should be honest regardless of the outcome.

If you like the movie, great for you, I'm not going to brainwash you, because I respect your opinion and taste! But unfortunately, people who didn't like the movie are NOT you.

Second point: girls rule and women are funny. I should note that there are fantastic girls and women in the media already. Jessie from Toy Story 2, Alyx Vance from Half Life 2, Bayonetta from... Bayonetta, Lucina from Fire Emblem Awakening, and a long list of awesome characters in movies, books and games.

When it comes to character's design, you need to take care of every detail, their story, their skills, their appearance, their personality... If you make a character, make them into a girl and nothing else, that girl is not going to "rule" and possibly isn't going to be funny for the story you're making.

You have to take care of that character, give her a story, abilities and skills, a personality... If you take care of her enough, she'll become a decent character, and if you put much more effort in her, she'll become an unforgettable character for many people. That's how character development is, and I'm even a beginner.

Third point: the surreal reviews... Well, I have not much to say, the pic I posted above says it all. I don't like watching movies that much, I like games more, but you shouldn't give a positive review of a movie because the haters are misogynist, or because men are boring... Again, respect doesn't come with gender or politics or sexuality or other bullshit to focus with instead of the quality. If you want to review something, look for its quality, not the identity politics.

That reminds me of a game, Nights of Azure, that has one perfect score 100/100 in Metacritic because the game is progressive and the main character is a lesbian, instead of focusing in the storyline and game mechanics.

This is not the way things should be reviewed, but sadly, critics would get harrassed because of snowflakes who dissagree with them. And this has to stop.