“It’s not really out to prove that women can be strong or funny or handle powerful weapons. In most…”
“It’s not really out to prove that women can be strong or funny or handle powerful weapons. In most movies, such offers of proof are accompanied by reassurances that the women in question are still sexy or maternal or eager to settle down with the right guy — that they fulfill some kind of conventional idea of femininity. Ghostbusters doesn’t bother with any of that, and in the process seems to be on the verge of inventing a new set of archetypes.”
– New York Times film critic A.O. Scott in So That’s Who You Call: The Politics of the New ‘Ghostbusters’ (via calystarose)
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Tags: right?, oh, I had the same experience watching it, as I had watching mmfr, pleased surprise, as it didn't suck, in ways I've been conditioned to expect all movies to suck, at least mainstream-y big hollywood genre movies, then growing affection and appreciation, as I read the happy analysis from people more directly marginalized by the conventional suckage, that's why I felt that way, that's why it's important.
