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Why The Ghostbusters Remake Matters

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Why The Ghostbusters Remake Matters
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One movie is making grown men on the internet very mad and the best part is…it’s the greatest movie I’ve seen in a very long time.

A reboot of its 1984 predecessor, Ghostbusters 2016 is everything I could’ve ever asked for and more. It doesn’t pick up from where the previous movies left off and instead is its own independent story with its own extremely independent characters.

And get this.

The main characters are women. Every. Single. One.

And they’re awesome.

Melissa McCarthy’s and Kristen Wiig’s character are lovably awkward, brilliant, and headstrong scientist whose friendship is more important than anything. Leslie Jones plays a street savvy MTA worker who joins their team and Kate McKinnon is the most badass blonde there ever was.

That’s not where the good parts about this movie end though. Lots of movies have women as main characters with their storylines dependent on pursuing men for their happiness but certainly not Ghostbusters.

With a plot that stayed highly under wraps until the release, Ghostbusters' storyline has nothing to do with romantic interest. It’s these amazing women being unapoligetically persistent in their pursuit in proving the paranormal and ultimately saving New York.

Finally, the cast not only includes a woman over 40 who makes no effort to be seen as sexy, but a plus size woman, an out gay woman, and a dark skinned black woman.

The only complaint I have is that it didn’t come around sooner because at ten years old it would’ve been nice to know that women can be just as badass as men are.

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