Ernie Hudson has nothing bad to say about the 2016 Ghostbusters, but he’s not sure why they did it
He says he liked the movie, but he understands why fans wanted to see one more about him
Modern society has effectively chosen to reject the existence of Ghostbusters (2016), a.k.a. Ghostbusters: Answer The Call, a.k.a. The All Female Ghostbusters Reboot, which is maybe not proof that the insidious tentacles of misogyny have been wrapped around all of our throats and left us unable to tolerate anything that was once for boys being modernized so that it can be for everyone (see also: Star Wars: The Last Jedi), but it’s definitely not not that. There are worse movies—there are worse movies about the Ghostbusters—but it has been determined to be on the wrong side of history and we must therefore eternally condemn it to the pits of movie hell.
Just look at this interview with Ernie Hudson, who once again stepped into Winston Zeddemore’s ghostbusting jumpsuit to bust ghosts in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, and whose attitude of “it’s fine, I don’t worry about it” regarding Ghostbusters (2016) seems unfathomable to The Independent. Hudson’s one objection to the 2016 movie is that he doesn’t really understand why Hollywood made that one instead of just making another Ghostbusters movie with the old Ghostbusters, which is understandable since he was one of the old Ghostbusters, but The Independent says he came across as “somewhat skeptical” or the new one and that he “seems bemused” by its existence—despite specifically noting that he has “nothing negative” to say about director Paul Feig, and that the new cast members were all “brilliantly funny on their own.”
Hudson says he “enjoyed the movie,” but he figures that old Ghostbusters fans were “really invested in the story and the characters” of the first two movies, and of course he’s going to say that because he’s one of those characters, so the new one was “disappointing” to them. He’s not really saying anything bad about the movie, and in fact he’s barely talking about it at all beyond saying “they should’ve just done another one about me and the guys I know,” but The Independent latches onto the word “disappointing” and runs with it.
It’s difficult for the world to see Ghostbusters (2016) as anything but evil, and as long as these new Ghostbusters movies that are more faithfully beholden to the originals keep making money, then we can all remain comfortably swaddled in the blankie of nostalgia and never be forced to imagine a world where women can bust ghosts just as well as any man.