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Message: <blockquote data-quote="payn" data-source="post: 8356129" data-attributes="member: 90374">The Fieg reboot was on the other day and I watched the second half again. It helped formed my ideas around why I didn't like it (why I dont like Fieg movies in general.)The original movie had these intellectual outcasts trying to prove their theories. Most folks treated them like crackpots, because they seemed like it. Though, shortly later they prove that ghosts exist and save the city. They end as heroes of NYC that everybody loves them.In Feig's ghostbusters you have these outcast intellectuals that folks simply dont like. Their crackpot ideas is only another layer of the hate cake. Even after they prove  ghosts exist, folks still hate them. They save the city and folks still want to bury them. Feig's humor has a brand like the  Fharely brothers. Its usually a meanspirited punching down of a bumbling idiot(s) that nobody likes who somehow manages to fail forward and save the day. Fieg's characters are the butt of every joke start to finish. That said, I loved the cast of Feig's reboot and all the characters. The jokes just felt beat to death and of course the Fieg formula made it a hard film to like despite having some things going for it.</blockquote>