Not all film critics touted the propaganda for this summer's box-office flop feminist Ghostbusters, and film critic Richard Roeper (certainly no friend to conservatives) didn't fall in line.
Speaking on “The Adam Carolla Show” podcast, Roeper reiterated his review that deemed feminist Ghostbusters a "horrifying mess" while pointing that film critics were less than honest when reviewing the film. It scored 73 percent on Rotten Tomatoes while receiving a 57 percent audience rating and a 5.5 on IMDB.
"I feel like I have pretty conclusive evidence that the people who do the [film] reviews lean a certain way politically, and that’s fine," Carolla said. "They tend to be more liberal.”
"When they take a movie like ‘Ghostbusters’ and they put the all-female cast in there, I think they lean a little toward it. ‘Hey, this is empowering,’ even if the movie itself wasn’t as good as they would have liked," Carolla continued. "They tend to give it a nod because they feel like it’s a step in the right direction, or this is progress, or I wanna be on the happy side of history."
Roeper agreed with Carolla's assertions while citing that he was actually attacked as a sexist on social media for giving it a poor review.
"I think you’re absolutely right, whether subconsciously or not,” said Roeper. "I find it hard to believe that after having sat through that dreck, that three quarters of the critics out there really saw that as a fine example of a reboot of a pretty classic, legendary motion picture. It was just bad."
As noted by HollywoodInToto: "Roeper doesn’t lean to the right like Carolla often does. The critic once blasted the religious right as opposing interracial marriage and tolerance. He also is brutal on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump via his Twitter account, although he certainly has company on that front from many conservatives."
Roeper maintains that he tries his best to keep his reviews sans politics.
"I gotta review the movie for the movie, for people spending $12 to $15 bucks to see [it]," he said. "If anybody in their review says, ‘it has good intentions,’ and ‘this is progress,’ … how condescending is that to the filmmakers? That’s a sexist, condescending review."
"What kinda droves me nuts, to take a turn toward the political for a second — the accusation that you’re being sexist, misogynistic or racist when you’re reviewing something is a misogynistic, sexist statement," Carolla stated. "The fact that you can’t express [an opinion on ‘Ghostbusters’] without being called sexist is a sexist comment."
Roeper also took aim at those who said only women should review a movie like feminist Ghostbusters.
"Great, then we should have five-year-olds reviewing ‘Finding Dory,'" Roeper said.


