New ‘Ghostbusters’ haunted by casting errors

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5. Hollywood has been out of ideas for awhile

The blood in Hollywood is old. Most directors and writers have lost their touch. The executives and studio big wigs are dinosaurs who only care about profit margins instead of quality. Too many studios are releasing movies based on statistics and demographics. The movies have become too expensive and being turned out too quickly. The artform of acting and directing is being lost. And we rarely get any quality dialogue today.

This Ghostbusters movie cost $145 million to make. That's ridiculous when the original only cost roughly $70 million (in today's money). I'm not sure why movies cost so much to make these days. Why are big budgets so frequently green-lit. It seems as these budgets swell, the quality declines.

As for Disney, they are an exception, that company lives in a world of its own and they follow a very specific formula that has worked for them going back to the days of Walt himself when it comes to the animated stuff.