CalamityPixel
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I'm praying to the salt Gods to deliver a good aftermath no matter how the film turns out.
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Ghostbusters (2016) movie review thread
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you can take your hat back. already plenty of those in there.
tearsintherain
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If you really want to see this movie early, you can still buy tickets as an AMEX card holder in many cities still. $10/ticket ($35 in NYC for reasons??), you will go to an early screening on July 12th (tuesday) the official release date is July 15th
https://www295.americanexpress.com/...ation=Choose your location&template=templateA
Not a great sign that 9 days after AMEX opened it up its still completely available, at least in the two cities around me I checked. Of course the last time I got early access tickets on my AMEX they were free, not sure why they decided to charge for these.
https://www295.americanexpress.com/...ation=Choose your location&template=templateA
Not a great sign that 9 days after AMEX opened it up its still completely available, at least in the two cities around me I checked. Of course the last time I got early access tickets on my AMEX they were free, not sure why they decided to charge for these.
obijkenobi
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The WE YouTube review, if true, literally confirms my worst fears of the movie. If the reviews are mixed, I'm definitely waiting till it's free on Amazon or Netflix
Well she's the only one that's being played for sexuality points, and at the very least it's going to be in an empowered way.
I'm guessing she'll throw some raunchy stuff about how ghosts have smaller peckers and rely on a few pantomimes for phallic references.
I hate how this has been the poster child to bring out of the woodwork horrible MRA morons, but the movie is banking completely on gender and gendered humor so it makes it easy for the idiots to have a go at it when there's actually a really legit conversation to be had if the movie is exploiting gender in a positive or negative way and how it could be a gigantic missed opportunity to subvert gender roles and perception by pairing it with such a huge property instead of the below average Paul Feig garbage it seems to be (for the record I think bridesmaid is alright).
Gonna be a shit show any way you slice it though
MoonsaultSlayer
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I can't think of a film that was straight up female bashing with the female villain being shot in the vagina by four dudes, so I'm not getting the "about time the tables are turned" comments.
I'm going to start going into these gender sensitive films with a "what if the roles were gender swapped, does the film's quality hold up, falter or improve?"
This film, based on trailers, spoilers and impressions, sounds like it'd be just as bad.
I'm going to start going into these gender sensitive films with a "what if the roles were gender swapped, does the film's quality hold up, falter or improve?"
This film, based on trailers, spoilers and impressions, sounds like it'd be just as bad.
Vincent Alexander
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This is going to be an interesting film to watch reviews and opinions on. I imagine there will be a crowd of people who say they like it and give it a positive review, no matter how much they hate it, in retaliation against the internet backlash. And I imagine there will be a crowd who say they hate it and give it a negative review, no matter how much they like it, because it isn't the Ghostbusters they're used to or "women" are in it. Then I'm left wondering how small the group will be leftover who just give their no bullshit, honest opinion.
MassiveNights
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I hope men survive this blatant attack on their rights to not be shot in the dick by a proton pack.
MoonsaultSlayer
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I think you have the wrong idea of me. Not even getting what you're suggesting based on what I wrote.
And those who'll give a not good/not bad review will still get shit because it's not one or the other.
Freewheelin'
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I haven't seen that film and have no desire to. I also think Ghostbusters looks pretty shit based on the quality of the jokes in the trailer, not because they change something about the original film.
Who cares if they
kill instead of capture?
The cast is fine, it's Paul Feig whom I don't trust.
going to come back to this, because it's such a completely dense and irritating comment to make it's worth diving deeper.
the modern blockbuster female is rarely dumb, in fact, they're usually the smartest in the room. like by some act of obnoxious compensation where all the male leads have these developed flaws, having a woman who is an innately narrow eyed quip happy ass kicker somehow makes up for her total lack of development.
i thought that's what people liked about feig and dippold being on this, they had the guts to make films where women could be dumb and obnoxious, riddled with flaws and actually capable of actual development. would parks and recreation be more progressive if amy poehler was smart and good at her job?
comments like yours are actually completely regressive, and partly responsible for all the shit female characterization in hollywood where the safest path is that of least resistance.
Voysa Reezun
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This is the best and truest fucking post in the history of the internet, maybe.
ElectricBlanketFire
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I think it looks bad, but not awful, and I like half of the cast.
I'm a man-toddler.
I'm a man-toddler.
Plasticine
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A piece of fiction should still have it's own internal logic. Apparently
the proton packs in the reboot are introduced with the same rules at the original packs. They hold the ghosts with the intention of capturing them. That logic is tossed aside and the proton beams start killing the ghosts instead without an explanation.
obijkenobi
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I totally get what you're saying. I think that if the powers that be had wanted to throw some female empowerment into THIS particular film and franchise (which I'm all about in general. My mom and my grandma raised me when I was young) then they should have gone with the Star Wars Episode 7 route.
E.g., a mixed gendered team with a strong female leader. No one was mad that Rey ended up being the one saving the day in Episode 7. And if they were, they were definitely drowned out by the majority.
But do men want to watch Bridesmaids 2? That's been the issue this whole time if you scrape away all the gross stuff - is a reboot attempt of an '80s action comedy franchise that had an animated series and sold lots of toys to young boys featuring this specific cast and crew actually a good idea?
Agree completely.
Freewheelin'
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my microwave is also an oven
I enjoyed Bridesmaids for the dumb, silly thing it was. If it's at least that quality I'll be happy.
I don't think I've seen any of his other movies. Didn't people like Spy though?
Plasticine
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That's great. Does it suddenly become a machine gun in the third act with no explanation?
You're missing the point.
It's equivalent to batman suddenly being OK to kill people in bvs because Synder thought it was cool.
It betrays the source material.
Inferno313
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Spy is fucking great, and Paul Feig's Freaks and Geeks is fantastic.
Freewheelin'
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Have you seen the film?
Is ghostbusters really such a holy cow that this causes offence:lol
"oh no they dont keep evil ghosts trapped forever in capsules like prisoners, this betrays the source material so terribly"
Yes, ghostbusters is indeed a well loved franchise.
Can't believe the length some people are going to blindly defend this film despite everything pointing to it being crap.
He had to have stopped watching the show at like episode 5 to come to that conclusion.
Spiral Insanity
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Of course a youtuber called Wreckless Eating is going to say it's terrible. I expect nothing less.
Freewheelin'
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I've literally just said I think it looks shit. I do not think changing this detail is one of those reasons.
MoonsaultSlayer
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I think he should have said it's like if Batman's rope he uses to tie up villains all of a sudden were corrosive and maimed or killed them.
Characters can have multiple interpretations, and something thst seems fundamentaly contradictory may end up being a great starting off point for a new story.
BvS is a cynical world without hope, amd ends on a positove note. Having Batman lose faith, kill people, and possibly reform is much better. No branding Lex is the sign he has moved on, and might have found some hope again.
Spiral Insanity
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It seems like a hated franchise to me. I see no love out there.
Can't believe the lengths some people are going through to blindly hate on this film.
Ghostbusters 2 sucked ass by the way.
streetsahead123
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Has anybody considered that maybe everybody but the Ghostbusters comes off as dumb or mean because everybody's going to be really skeptical and condescending of the Ghostbusters? Just like in the first movie? And there's for sure female characters in this movie that come off the same way. You can tell Cecily Strong's character will be like that just judging from the trailers.
Hello? This is Hailun!
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Movie looks like shit.
Review in OP is shit.
Everything is shit.
Review in OP is shit.
Everything is shit.
Freewheelin'
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are the ghostbusters' principles concerning this matter as key to their backstory as bruce wayne's
but what if you had a microwave that wasn't an oven and you went for a walk and you came back and all of a sudden it was an oven??
Patrick Bateman
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I'm pretty excited about reading some proper reviews.
freenudemacusers
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Men used to have principles and stand for something. This generation of men probably doesn't relate to that though.
I think it'll feel like a typical Paul Feig movie rather than a Ghostbusters movie at this point, so with those expectations I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised. I love McKinnon on SNL, I love Wiig, and I enjoy McCarthy well enough. I doubt I'll hate this. I just love Ghostbusters and hope this is decent.
NOLA_Gaffer
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I wonder what the overlap is of folks that defended the garbage fire that was Batman v Superman and folks that are hating this film just because of its existence.
Peter Ian Staker
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No, it really feels like a gimmick.
They are trying to attract couples who can't decide between the action flick and the chick- flick.
Basically a big budgetted version of those movies:
Spiral Insanity
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An almost perfect match, probably.
-shadow-
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My problem with this is that the fighting is much, much more dynamic then the original ever could do with everything being a practical effect of course. But the terrible CG and editing just... Ugh.
I'm down for changing the details and disregarding source material if it leads to a good movie. In this case it appears to be for a big dumb flashy CGI-fest which reminds me why I never watched any Transformers films past Revenge of the Fallen. So whatever.
It's worth remember that the reviewer wasn't a fan of the original ghostbusters anyway.
Anyway, all the reviewer said is that *this* film introduces the viewer to a certain "rule of ghostbusting", and *this* film then breaks it's own rule. For him, that lack of consistency was a problem.
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