Ghostbusters Reboots and Remakes

The new Ghostbusters movie trailers have become a  study in gender politics. The heroes of the film will all be played by female cast members, so it has been suggested by many writers that the people who don't want to see this movie must therefore be all gamergate-types with male-chauvinist agendas. Sadly, it is well known that these morons exist in droves. If someone could explain to me what the fuck is wrong with the new generation and where their troglodyte attitudes towards female characters came from, I would love to hear it. My generation, especially those of us who considered ourselves as outsiders, had Buffy Summers, and we loved her. Things have moved backwards since the nineties and I don't like it.

But, I'm not interested in seeing the new Ghosbusters. So, what's my problem? Judd Apatow seems to think that if you want to take a pass on this movie then you probably like Donald Trump. Why do I run from the idea of a rehashed Ghostbusters like it's a reincarnation of Zul?
Ghostbusters wasn't exactly classic cinema, but it was charming, goofy fun and something we all loved...and highly quotable. I just don't see the use in doing it again. I'm open to being proved wrong. I'll pay attention to what people are saying, but I don't have a lot of hope.

In recent memory, George Lucas stripped all the charm out of his original trilogy through his constant re-edits to the point that I can't watch them anymore, J.J. Abrams created a new Star Trek universe that makes me dizzy, attempts have been made to remake Robocop,Total Recall, and Connan, and Tom Hardy grunted his way through a new Mad Max adventure that honestly didn't make much sense.

There is a new Point Break in the works that I have no plans to see unless I read some really good reviews of it. Speaking of which, the entire plot to the first Fast and the Furious movie was just Point Break with cars instead of surfing, which is fine, they did something different with it, and it was good, stupid fun.
There are rumors of a new Highlander floating around. The first movie was cool, but they really fucked up the sequels. I'm not over excited about the idea of a remake, but, what the hell, it's not like it could be any worse than Highlander 2.

Sometimes the time is ripe for a remake. This year there will be a new Magnificent Seven with Denzel Washington apparently playing the Yul Brynner character. The original Magnificent Seven came out in 1960 and was an adaptation of the 1954's The Seven Samurai with the wonderful Toshiro Mifune. There has to be at leas one generation or more that has never seen either classic.

The one franchise that always carries a license to reboot is James Bond. There have been six canon 007's so far. Daniel Craig hates the sexist spy so much he just refused a mind-boggling offer to play him again. So, Gillian Anderson is campaigning for the role. The Bond franchise is the dinosaur in the room; maybe a gender switch might freshen things up a bit. It's no stretch at all to imagine Gillian Anderson as an asskicker on H.M.'s Secret Service and being sexy as hell doing it. I want to see this, but we will probably have another James and not a Jane. Maybe Barbara Broccoli and company might take a look at Gillian Anderson and think "spinoff". They could even do a crossover allowing her to say "I don't take orders from you, Mister Bond, I'm a double-0". That would be excellent.