Sony is highly unlikely to be giving Milo Yiannopolous a call anytime soon after the young alt-right icon vehemently attacked the female Ghostbusters remake.
Using strong language, even by the standards of those who hate Paul Feig’s controversial reboot of the beloved 1984 comedy, Milo accused the new film of being sexist and favoring big government.
Milo wrote in his Breitbart review: “Ghostbusters is terrible…the beloved franchise from our childhood [has] a stake driven through its heart, head chopped off, body burned and buried at a crossroads.”
He added: “The overarching problem with Ghostbusters is that the script is a greater abomination to God than any of the demons and ghosts in the franchise. I’m sure they could have done a worse job, but they’d have to study Tobin’s Spirit Guide to summon a script from an even deeper circle of Hell.”
“Mostly, it’s a lack of intelligence. In the original movie, the bad guys weren’t actually the ghosts — everybody loves Slimer and the Marshmallow Man. No, the bad guys were the clueless bureaucrats in the government, who set off a supernatural crisis through bumbling and red tape,” he writes.
“In this film, by contrast, the enemy is all men, while the government ends up playing dad. Every man in the movie is a combination of malevolent and moronic. The chick ‘busters shame the mayor so much they end up getting government funding at the end. Like all feminists, they can only survive by sucking on the teat of Big Government.”
Genius branding given the movie’s exclusively overweight lesbian audience. Bravo, Sony! pic.twitter.com/RFAi3t5A4J
— Milo Yiannopoulos ひ✘ (@Nero) July 16, 2016
Some, like Heat Street writer Will Hicks, have backtracked on their skepticism of the remake, upon seeing the film, but Milo — who has been a hater long before its release — doubled down on his criticism.
Milo reserved special scorn for Ghostbusters‘ female stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones: “The leads are searching for the friendly, buddyish camaraderie that men often build together, especially in dangerous jobs. This doesn’t ring true, because they aren’t dudes — even though they think, act and look like guys. These teenage boys with tits snigger at queef jokes — which no woman ever does — within the first ten minutes of the movie.”
Milo, who before he found fame as a political firebrand, wanted to be a London theatre critic, concluded his review with a seven-point thesis outlining a “true-to-life feminist reboot of the franchise.”
Although there is much speculation surrounding a sequel for Ghostbusters, Sony is unlikely to take up Milo on his suggestion that “I think I have the skills necessary to put together a much more effective feminist Ghostbusters story” in view of his review.
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