When it was announced the actress Sandra Bullock would be leading an all-star female cast in “Ocean’s 8,” many skeptics were concerned that the film would end up like another recent gender-swapped reboot, “Ghostbusters.” As you may know, the Melissa McCarthy and Kristin Wiig “Ghostbusters” reboot was the source of a lot of social media debate and trolling, with the actresses becoming subject to online hate. In a new interview with Variety, Bullock talks about that controversy surrounding “Ghostbusters” and why she hopes people give her new ‘Ocean’s’ film a try.
When asked about the “Ghostbusters” situation, Bullock said, “That was unfair on a level that I can’t even not be mad about talking about. They literally walked into a firing squad.”
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She continues by explaining her statement and why she hopes that the conversation will change after “Ocean’s 8.” “You had five of the most gifted comedian actresses on the planet — I’m just gonna leave it at that,” Bullock said. “And it doesn’t just take five people to make a movie. It takes about 300, so, you know what? Let’s back off the meanness. Let’s have a year of kindness. The women are here — we’re not going anywhere. But this isn’t about just women. We like sitting at the table with men. We just want to be invited to their table as well because we like them at our table.”
It’s too early to say, as “Ocean’s 8” doesn’t open until Friday, but at this point, there doesn’t seem to be the same level of trolling as was evident with “Ghostbusters.” But still, there are definitely people out there that have already prejudged “Ocean’s 8” before seeing the film, based solely on the cast. Bullock has a message for those people.
“My advice for those people is just watch the movie [‘Ocean’s 8’] first and then go on Reddit,” she said. “It’s as simple as that. Watch it first.”
“Ocean’s 8” opens in theaters this Friday.
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Literally fake news
Just a question, concerning people saying to “give it a chance”: you do realize that the trailers already give the movie a chance, right? If someone sees a trailer, and thinks it looks like crap, chances are, they won’t see the movie.
The heist/con man thing is probably my favorite genre in all of film, and I was a big of the Oceans trilogy (and yeah while ’12’ was clearly the weakest of the three, I still liked it enough). I don’t really care at all about the whole “all female team” thing, that by itself doesn’t remove the interest for me or anything, my problem was more that, going by the trailers at least, they seem to be lifting A LOT of the story beats from the first remake. The head of the crew just getting out from a 5 year prison sentence (they even have it starting the same way, talking to parole board), the reveal that she’s trying to accomplish something personal at the same time of the heist (potentially then endangering the success of the whole thing). Hell they’ve even got the scene of the crew leader with her main righthand man asking the question “Why do you need to do this?”, etc etc…
But trust me nobody would be more thrilled than me to be proven wrong.
Well, no, not “literally”. If they literally walked into a firing squad, then they would, literally, BE DEAD. Ya know, cause of the whole physics of how multiple bullets traveling at high velocity at and then thru your skin would kill you.
“Literally” has got to be consistently the most incorrectly used word in the English language.
I found the main thing wrong with the Ghostbusters reboot was that these ‘gifted comedian actresses’ weren’t actually funny. It must have hurt that Chris Hemsworth got all the laughs. I’m a bit undecided on Oceans 8 but will probably go to see it as Sandra Bullock is my favourite actress but I think anyone having the attitude that ‘it’s got a female cast so the sisterhood should want to go see it’ knows nothing about films, or women for that matter.
No kidding! It’s not as if I want to go see a film just cuz it’s all men.