Online bashers of the ‘Ghostbusters’ reboot finally got to director Paul Feig on Wednesday night.
After fielding what, according to Feig, has been months of “misogyny and insults” aimed at him and his cast from armchair critics of the movie, the director behind such films as “The Heat” and “Bridesmaids” finally told them, “goodnight.” Oh, right after telling them, “Go fuck yourself.”
The most recent spate of mean tweets began when one user posted that Feig “threatens to pointlessly gender-swap everyone,” to which the director responded, “God, you’re tiresome, dude.”
It only got worse from there.
Showing signs of exasperation with speculative haters critical of the film’s undisclosed plot, Feig told another Twitter user, “You all have no idea what we did, so stop acting like you do.