Kingpin wrote:DarkSpectre wrote:Numbers are numbers, Ben. Whether or not he was biased he presented factual evidence to build a case, a rather compelling one I might add
My concern is that because he's A) very clearly against the reboot and B) not associated with a reputable publication, that we only have his assurance that the numbers he's presented and calculated are accurate. I'll admit I haven't got the first clue about the system he's been using, so it might not be possible to skew the data in favour of the outcome he wants to present, but as I have no experience with it, there might be ways to cheat it that I'm not aware of.
He ignores some very blatant things as well to force his point.
One of the most important things you have to realize is for Power Editor to work, people have to have pressed the like button to follow a movie for Power Editor to pick up. For Power Editor to process that like, they must have their profiles NOT set to private. Also, people who don't like movies on Facebook for any reason whatsoever (I don't have all my loved movies liked on FB for instance) are not counted as well.
So, his numbers are flawed to begin with, but it gets worse:
2M to 2.2M of Ghostbusters fans have been turned off by the very premise of this reboot. Half the potential audience is just thrown away at the start with a film that is specifically designed to alienate them by entrapping itself in a radical feminist message (we’ll explore why this is true later).
Let’s focus on the remaining women and why they probably won’t show up to the box office, either.
He throws away all the male GB fans as they should not be interested in a female GB movie. That's an assumption that's just plain wrong.
It's safe to assume most of these female Ghostbuster fans are in a relationship with a man — one who is likely a Ghostbuster fan himself and feels alienated by this reboot and its divisive message.
Do you really think they’ll go to the box office without their significant other?
He thinks married people only go to the movies with their husband, which if a GB fan, should hate the movie because they are a man.
He also just forgets to mention a whole new target audience: teens and kids. Probably because they don't have Facebook, but remember how old all those GB fans were that he mentions at the start during the release of GB1 or Gb2? Right, those were all kids that became fans for life.
The tweets from Feig are taken out of context and I won't even start about the GB16 is a radical-feminist only movie. It's just very dumb.
For Ivan.