Ghostbusters 2016

There's been more written about Paul Feig's Ghostbusters by people who've never seen a second of it than any film in recent memory. Look, it was always going to happen that there would be some kind of reimagining of the beloved 1984 classic starring Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson, it was just a question of how.

Since the original stars couldn't agree on a path for an official Ghostbusters 3 (mostly because Murray said all the scripts stunk), Paul Feig and his frequent collaborator Katie Dippold were brought on to reboot the whole thing. And that decision to cast it up with talented females like Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, and Kate McKinnon got a lot of sexists and nostalgia freaks riled up.

Well, those folks weren't going to pay to see Ghostbusters, anyway, and it's totally their fault because they're missing a film that respects its predecessor while crossing the streams into a new direction.