{"id":48331,"date":"2026-04-12T06:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48331"},"modified":"2026-04-12T06:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:46:20","slug":"director-paul-feig-rips-unnecessary-outrage-over-stupid-sht-like-sydney-sweeneys-jeans-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48331","title":{"rendered":"Director Paul Feig Rips &#8216;Unnecessary Outrage over Stupid Sh*t&#8217; Like Sydney Sweeney&#8217;s Jeans Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Filmmaker Paul Feig took aim at popular culture and social media for constantly pushing \u201cunnecessary outrage\u201d and cited the kerfuffle over actress Sydney Sweeney\u2019s American Eagle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2025\/11\/06\/sydney-sweeney-refuses-to-apologize-for-american-eagle-great-jeans-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jeans ad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Feig, who directed films including <i>Bridesmaids, The Heat, Spy, A Simple Favor<\/i>, and the much-panned 2016 remake of <i>Ghostbusters<\/i>, appeared at <i>Variety\u2019s<\/i> \u201cPower of Law Breakfast,\u201d where he received the paper\u2019s 2026 Power of Law Award.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans | American Eagle\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AK8s3iqL99c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At one point during the discussion, he brought up the problem of Internet outrage machines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want free spirits,\u201d he said of the public discourse in America. \u201cYou can only control what you can, and people get through it. Sydney [Sweeney] had a contentious thing \u2014 but whatever,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnnecessary outrage is the biggest problem in our society right now. People get so outraged about stupid shit\u2026 when there\u2019s all kinds of things to be outraged about, becoming outraged about pop culture \u2014 trust me, I made the female Ghostbusters ten years ago and you would have thought I launched an invasion of Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2041938712292999564\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/2041938712292999564\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Feig\u2019s all-female remake of <i>Ghostbusters<\/i> was roundly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2016\/07\/11\/thr-female-ghostbusters-unfunny-mess\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized<\/a> by both critics and fans when it debuted n 2016. The movie was called an \u201cunfunny mess\u201d and lacking \u201cinventiveness.\u201d Another critic said the film was \u201cIt\u2019s all busy-ness, noise, and chaos, with zero thrills and very little sustainable comic buoyancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>The film also became a target of attacks online as fans ripped the film as woke for its terrible all-female cast.<\/p>\n<p>Feig directed Sweeney in the sexually-charged thriller\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2026\/01\/16\/woke-fail-sydney-sweeneys-the-housemaid-sweeps-past-200-million-at-worldwide-box-office\/\"><em>The Housemaid<\/em><\/a>, which became an international hit and justified the greenlighting of a sequel.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a>, Truth Social <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@WarnerToddHuston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WarnerToddHuston<\/a>, or at X\/Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WTHuston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WTHuston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2026\/04\/11\/director-paul-feig-rips-unnecessary-outrage-over-stupid-sht-like-sydney-sweeneys-jeans-ad\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker Paul Feig took aim at popular culture and social media for constantly pushing \u201cunnecessary outrage\u201d and cited the kerfuffle over actress Sydney Sweeney\u2019s American Eagle&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}