Great video and everyone defending the way this movie was made and marketed should be embarrassed at how dumb they are.
Paul Feig wanted to make Bridesmaids 2. He should have just made Bridesmaids 2. It probably would have made just as much money and certainly wouldn't have shit all over an IP that mattered.
What amazed me was how easily people are still drawn into the whole misogyny, man baby angle based on such flimsy evidence. All it requires is a media blitz and even people here, where we have long discussions about the media, latch onto it. It's obscene.
The worst part is, people don't see the power imbalance, they don't see who the real bullies were. Think about it, papers were writing about these
poor oppressed millionaires, backed by a company worth
billions, who were arguing with normal folks who, SUPPOSEDLY can't even afford their own home (IE basement dwellers), I guess, and
somehow, somehow, it was the millionaires with the media on their side and the huge company PR machine who were the defenseless victims, and not the nerds being called every name in the book for having an
opinion and being those 'disgusting nerds'?
Really glad the RLM guys brought up that angle--what you have here is a bunch of very wealthy people, and a massive company, making fun of millions of people not based on their opinion but rather assigning them a stereotyped opinion based on who they are (An ad hom), and the media believes the wealth company/people need defending (You know, the same media that will decry capitalism and corporate greed in the next breath? You can't make it up).
In any case, I just hope some people feel a little foolish. This kind of activism is not 'helping the womenz', it's meant to help various media corporations who like to make money and can use 'think of the women' as a method to advertise better.