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Ghostbusters (2016) Trailer #1 (Feig, Wiig, McCarthy, McKinnon, Jones)
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Bobby Roberts
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I'm wondering if this particular announcement is at all coincidental:
Sony Pictures Consumer Marketing Chief George Leon Exits Post
Sony eats shit for a week straight with a bad trailer. New trailer issued, Consumer Marketing Chief out the door.
HMMMMMMMMM
Sony Pictures Consumer Marketing Chief George Leon Exits Post
Sony eats shit for a week straight with a bad trailer. New trailer issued, Consumer Marketing Chief out the door.
HMMMMMMMMM
brandonh83
Banned
Anyone responsible for ending that trailer with that possession scene should probably go, yeah.
UncleSporky
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Isn't an international trailer kind of a standard thing? It's not likely to be intended to right the wrongs of the first, is it?
Keihart
Member
I usually don't mind but this is a case were it will be like transformers.
Once upon a time when wearing a autobot logo meant that you liked the cartoons, now eveyrone asociete them with the horrible movies.
Once upon a time the ghost busters logo meant the movies and cartoons, now it will mean this piece of ectoplasm.
there is no return, so i dont fuss about it, but i do understand the "hate" for not respecting the franchise.
I hope that was his choice to step down, at least.
WordAssassin
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To clarify I don't think he meant he wanted to to be like an actual horror movie, but he said he wanted to have actually "scary" parts so that when the comedy happened, it was like a stress reliever.
I haven't read the Reddit post because I don't want to ruin the movie for myself, good or bad, before I see it. But from what others have said, even if it is 100% right about plot details, it sounds like it was written with extreme bias. Shit like "She says this cheesy line" or whatever it is I saw someone say taints the synopsis with a negative slant for anyone else reading it. "Murray tries to collect some slime and gets it everywhere" doesn't exactly do that sequence justice. Maybe that person didn't personally find it scary, so they said there's no scares. I've watched plenty of movies that have scared the shit out of me that others can watch without batting an eye.
Yautja_Warrior
Member
Yeah they are pretty standard really and definitely not intended to right wrongs of the other trailer, even though it actually does in this case, at least to some degree anyway.
MrCunningham
Member
"30 years ago, four FRIENDS saved the world"
Dear god, you can just see the back peddling in motion.
I will say that the new trailer is a little better than the first one, but it is still weird that they are going with the misleading intro.
Even if this movie turned out alright, the advertising has been terrible.
Count Dookkake
Member
It's like when Sky Marshal Dienes made way for Sky Marshal Tahat-Maru.
I would definitely like to know more.
MrCunningham
Member
What country are you in? it works find for me in Canada.
Also, I just realized that this is Sony Pictures UK, which is why they gave Chris Hemsworth an ample amount of speaking scenes.
plasmawave
Banned
They did?
Why would you crowd surf with the proton pack on? What if someone unintentionally breaks it and the entire venue explodes?
MrCunningham
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JoBlo to the rescue? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Y4au79xt0
Weird difference between the JoBlo upload and the Sony Pictures upload:
Sony Pictures UK:
JoBlo:
Paul Feig's credits are replaced by Sony Pictures. It's also funny to note that Sony Pictures used the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movie title and not the Marc Webb movie title. How embarrassing that they have to resort to the older Spider-Man series to make themselves look good. Otherwise the trailers are the exact same.
Candeldandel
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I'm pretty sure the joke is that it's neither. She's just a giant gal and would crush them if they caught her, whereas in many other discriminatory situations it could be either of those, or both.
WordAssassin
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The joke is that it's neither. She's huge compared to McCarthy's character, so the people didn't let her fall because she's a woman or because she's black, they moved so they wouldn't get crushed.
That's my take on it anyway. Maybe there's more to the joke in the movie but it's clearly not a gender thing since they carried off McCarthy and I doubt they'd insinuate it was actually a race thing that made all those people move.
UncleSporky
Member
It's probably much safer and less jury rigged than the old packs because they are smarter scientists than the old crew.
He was definitely the best thing in the new trailer for me.
brandonh83
Banned
Oh absolutely things are subjective as hell when it comes to horror, and I agree with you that the reddit write-ups are just more subjective points of view. Anything can be made to sound bad out of context. I'm a skeptic of the movie, but even if I read the reddit stuff (avoiding spoilers like you) I wouldn't put any stock in it, even if my opinions ultimately lined up with it after actually seeing it. But that's beyond the point.
plasmawave
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It's better...but I still don't like the humor.
FF Seraphim
Member
How much did Sony spend on this movie?
Couldn't have been much. It looks like a made-for-TV Nickelodeon movie.
It has a big following even outside United States. For years people wanted a Ghostbusters 3 movie(if I recall correctly there was an episode of The Critic about it), of course the dream has been gone since one of the main four guys passed away. Although they even admitted that the 2009 video game(the one for PS3, 360 and PC) is sort of a third movie in a way.
crazyrabbits
Banned
About $150 million at last count. Guessing that doesn't include P&A or factor all the associated costs with the scripts written over the years.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Actually, it probably does. Pre-production on stalled versions of the film will get rolled into the accounting for the finished version.
The two examples that jump to mind are Mad Max: Fury Road and Superman Returns.
Jeezus
Freeza Under The Shower
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that seems a little extreme for just one movie. Was he leftover from the recent CEO switch by any chance?
Stallion Dan
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Like you're ignoring my point that people watch movies they think they will like so the score is instantly skewed towards positive.
Keihart
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The props look really good but the movie still looks like spy kids, it's a tragedy really.
brandonh83
Banned
Pretty sure Bobby was kidding, he seems very well-versed in how this stuff works. It's likely coincidence.
A Link to the Past
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You didn't introduce that point until well into our discussion, which I guess means at some point you were simply offering nothing of value.
Again, my point still stands - Spy received negative reception for its trailer, and got positive reception for the actual product that was delivered. You not liking it means literally nothing to me because it doesn't affect my point to even the slightest degree.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Of course it does, it features more Hemsworth.
A Link to the Past
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I gotta say, the crowd surfing scene is terrible. The trailer doesn't offer an explanation for why Jones' character is allowed to drop to the floor, it just feels like a tired joke that, if it appeared in another film, it would be too soon.
hodayathink
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I don't think it's directly related to this, but Sony hasn't a movie truly hit with its marketing for almost 2+ years now. There's an argument that the last movie Sony made that you legit saw "the internet" get hyped for was either ASM2 or maybe 22 Jump Street.
Stallion Dan
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And that doesn't stop it being an objectively bad film, using tired jokes and what is considered poor forms of humour.
Spectre. But that's Bond, it basically sells itself.
American Hustle is the only one in that list that needed to be sold and got people REALLY excited IIRC.
cormack12
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I think that new trailer is about 10 times better than the first and it probably would have been perfect without the vomit and without the concert dragon ghost thing. Still a massive improvement though.
I think there's a lot of issues at play. Like saying they want it be genuinely creepy in parts, but then using stylistic CG for the ghosts. Stylistic CG that people are used to seeing in more kid friendly films for example. That style coupled with the gags we've seen just don't sell it. Even something like 'Monster House' sets the tone in its trailer much better and that's not even mentioning films like Coraline.
For context, my wife said she thinks it looks funny but more childish than the originals. Her mate who loved bridesmaids thinks it looks 'hilarious'. To each their own I guess. I think a lot of just have to accept that they've gone in a different direction with this new reboot, and it's the opposite of fans of the original would have liked.
I think there's a lot of issues at play. Like saying they want it be genuinely creepy in parts, but then using stylistic CG for the ghosts. Stylistic CG that people are used to seeing in more kid friendly films for example. That style coupled with the gags we've seen just don't sell it. Even something like 'Monster House' sets the tone in its trailer much better and that's not even mentioning films like Coraline.
For context, my wife said she thinks it looks funny but more childish than the originals. Her mate who loved bridesmaids thinks it looks 'hilarious'. To each their own I guess. I think a lot of just have to accept that they've gone in a different direction with this new reboot, and it's the opposite of fans of the original would have liked.
A Link to the Past
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lol, okay. Shouldn't you be posting on GameFAQs or something?
Good to know that your conspiracy theory about reviews and ratings exists for no other reason than because the reviews and ratings do not agree with you.
Jones is a large, 6ft tall woman, and easily weighs a lot more than any of her other castmates, what is there to explain?
It's an easy to get joke, but I've noticed a lot of people being obtuse about it. I've even read some comments from some people saying "Oh wow, of course this movie would make it all about race and gender!". THAT'S THE JOKE, the joke itself is mocking that perception that some people have about everything. There are guys who mock this film for "making it all about race and gender" due to a joke that's mocking the exact same thing.
If it were any other film, I suspect people would have understood the joke pretty easily, but for some reason everyone's looking at this film with rage goggles on.
A Link to the Past
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If it were any other film, I'd roll my eyes. I haven't seen that gag in ages. I hate to see it in this film.
excelsiorlef
Member
Objectively?
Dude. You can't objectively review a movie. The closest thing we can get to objectivity is consensus and consensus on Spy was that it was a very good and funny film.
Yep. Second trailer was fucking terrible, too.
Bond was produced and majority financed by MGM.
American Hustle was produced and (IIRC) majority financed by Annapurna.
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