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[Bobby Roberts]

I was like 5 when I first watched the movie and it was my favorite movie.

Of your entire childhood?

Not a single movie ever got any better than that one for the entirety of your childhood?

Not saying this isn't the case with you. If you say it is, it is. I'm sure there are others who really do believe the same thing, but it's weird how outsized the reputation of Ghostbusters has gotten the closer to release this remake gets. How fundamental a place it occupies for people considering it's been dead for over 20 years now.

 

[Nibiru]

Imma let you finish last, but Transformers is the worst franchise of all time!

I was about to correct you and say what the actual worst franchise is but it probably is Transformers.

 

[plasmawave]

Of your entire childhood?

Not a single movie ever got any better than that one for the entirety of your childhood?

It's weird how outsized the reputation of Ghostbusters has gotten the closer to release this remake gets.

Does it matter? It was definitely one of my favorites among others. Things don't have to be so black and white you know.
I still watch the movie at least once a year.

 

[Fusebox]

Ghostbusters likely isn't a lot of people's favorite childhood movie, either.

It's not even a fucking kids movie.

Define 'kid'. I was 10 when the original came out and it took over my life, I had all the merch I could get my hands on and the theme song was my song of the summer. It's still easily one of my top films ever. Am I really the outlier in this case? How old were you when it came out, Bobby?

 

[Sanjuro]

I was about to correct you and say what the actual worst franchise is but it probably is Transformers.

Don't do it. Duckroll has a autobot family!

 

[PsychBat!]

Ghostbusters likely isn't a lot of people's favorite childhood movie, either.

It's not even a fucking kids movie.

HEY!

I watched RoboCop when I was 6 and I consider it a kids movie... for me.

Speaking of which... Can you fly?

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Does it matter? It was definitely one of my favorites among others. Things don't have to be so black and white you know.

It doesn't really matter, no, but since you were responding to my post where I said it likely wasn't a lot of kids' favorite movie when they were kids, and then you said it was, and now you're saying it was one of your favorites, and not your actual favorite when pressed, I guess that kinda proves the point, right?

If things didn't have to be black and white you didn't have to respond as such. Especially if you ultimately didn't mean it.

Define 'kid'. I was 10 when the original came out and it took over my life, I had all the merch I could get my hands on and the theme song was my song of the summer. It's still easily one of my top films ever. Am I really the outlier in this case? How old were you when it came out, Bobby?

I was 6.

That doesn't make it a kids movie. I watched Nightmare on Elm Street 2 the following year. Is that a kids movie now?

Ghostbusters wasn't a kids movie. I doubt it's a lot of people's favorite childhood movie because a lot of kids had a lot of that movie fly way over their heads, because it absolutely was not made with them in mind.

 

[Shamrock7r]

Ghostbusters is considered a family movie, imo

 

[Mr. Pointy]

Ghostbusters likely isn't a lot of people's favorite childhood movie, either.

It's not even a fucking kids movie.

That didn't really stop 80's kids watching Rambo, Robocop, Beetlejuice, Indiana Jones, etc. though.

Addendum> I don't have much attachment to GB, I've only ever seen the two on TV once our twice. But I've noticed that to a lot of 80's kids, it's probably up there with Back To The Future or Indiana Jones. I can see where the initial nostalgia butt hurt is coming from.

 

[plasmawave]

It doesn't really matter, no, but since you were responding to my post where I said it likely wasn't a lot of kids' favorite movie when they were kids, and then you said it was, and now you're saying it was one of your favorites, and not your actual favorite when pressed, I guess that kinda proves the point, right?

If things didn't have to be black and white you didn't have to respond as such. Especially if you ultimately didn't mean it.

No? I have a lot of favorites. How does that matter?
Ghostbusters can't be my childhood favorite because I also had other favorites? Wut?
See when I say things don't need to be so back and white?

 

[Laughing Banana]

Eh, Star Wars was unarguably a much larger part of many people's "childhood" but the franchise moves on and even thrives on a currently female-led move.

So people shouldn't worry too much about whether women-hating group will be able to topple this movie. What people should worry is whether the writing/comedy/etc will able to make this movie stands out of its own.

For me, so far, it seems like the answer is just a straight-forward no. Cringing all the way by all the "humor" displayed so far in this trailer.

 

[Nekofrog]

Ghostbusters likely isn't a lot of people's favorite childhood movie, either.

It's not even a fucking kids movie.

It was for me. My parents had it on a VHS copied over from someone else's VHS, and I clearly and directly remember being 3 years old and acting out the scenes as they happened. I would roll around when the ground started crumbling while they stood outside and gazed at the tower from below. Then I'd emerge from under the rocking chair when the person yelled "they're okay!" or whatever.

I never really saw Ghostbusters as a "funny" movie. For kids like me, it was a great action adventure romp in a spooky but SAFE setting. That was the Ghostbusters I grew up with. GB2 was the "funny" one (Janos is king) but it sometimes went off the rails in the spooky department and threw a pit of severed heads on spikes at you, upping the spooky adventure factor.

tldr; Ghostbusters shaped my entire childhood and are as close to my childhood as any kind of media consumption memory can be for a kid. And I'm psyched for the new movie. I honestly cannot understand the complete backlash that started from the casting announcement ages ago.

 

[Rabbi_Vole]

That didn't really stop 80's kids watching Rambo, Robocop, Beetlejuice, Indiana Jones, etc. though.

Fletch, Elvira: Mistress of the dark, Ghostbusters and Three Amigos were always on at my house growing up

 

[obijkenobi]

Melissa McCarthy literally punching ghosts made me do a :/ face

 

[Lv99 Slacker]

As long as it's not totally panned by critics, I'll see it. All the babies who have been whining about this movie long before the first trailer came out, are pushing me to do so.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

That didn't really stop 80's kids watching Rambo, Robocop, Beetlejuice, Indiana Jones, etc. though.

Like I said, that doesn't make them "kids movies"

You guys, just because you watched a thing that wasn't for you in your early years doesn't make the movie suddenly a "kids movie."

No? I have a lot of favorites. How does that matter?

I literally just explained this to you in the post you just quoted back at me.

 

[border]

Ghostbusters likely isn't a lot of people's favorite childhood movie, either.

It's not even a fucking kids movie.

As an IP, Ghostbusters has pretty deep and far-reaching kid appeal. It's not as if they didn't have multiple cartoon shows and a huge toy line.

 

[Bluth54]

I was able to find an archive of the Reddit plot summary post and this trailer defiantly proves it was true. Some of the things in this trailer mentioned in the plot summary:

Spoiler

One of the concert goers has a selfie stick (please kill yourself now) and takes a picture of the dragon-ghost as it is perched on Leslie Jones shoulder in the crowd.

The main villain Rowan that Jone's encountered in the subway, meanwhile is channeling more ghosts in shitty mirrors with a very large machine. (we see the mirrors with ghosts briefly in this trailer).

Rowan is now a ghost and possesses McCarthy, then Hemsworth after Jones slaps the ghost out of McCarthy. Hemsworth then travels on the ECTO 2 motorcycle to the ghost channeling machine to release them all.

[On the villian Rowan] He gets bigger and expands as large as a tall building, busting out of it exposing the portal.

 

[Nekofrog]

As an IP, Ghostbusters has pretty deep and far-reaching kid appeal. It's not as if they didn't have multiple cartoon shows and a huge toy line.

Freaking Robocop had a cartoon, video games, and numerous toy lines for CHILDREN.

ROBOCOP!

 

[TheWorthyEdge]

Better! But still...mediocre.

 

[plasmawave]

Like I said, that doesn't make them "kids movies"

You guys, just because you watched a thing that wasn't for you in your early years doesn't make the movie suddenly a "kids movie."



I literally just explained this to you in the post you just quoted back at me.

Your explanation makes no sense what so ever.

 

[PsychBat!]

Like I said, that doesn't make them "kids movies"

You guys, just because you watched a thing that wasn't for you in your early years doesn't make the movie suddenly a "kids movie."

If you can't see why Videodrome wasn't a kids movie then good day sir!

Spoiler

I watched that movie for the first time a few years ago and I was really unsettled.

 

[Mr. Pointy]

Like I said, that doesn't make them "kids movies"

You guys, just because you watched a thing that wasn't for you in your early years doesn't make the movie suddenly a "kids movie."

Wasn't it PG though? That's kid movie enough.

 

[Schattenjäger]

See, that sentiment sounds like "I want new, original things to enjoy as much as I enjoyed the original" which is laudable and commendable and all those other positive things.

But what it most closely resembles is "why can't this be something else, so I can easily deride and ignore it because it's not the thing I'm treating oh-so-preciously."

This is a close cousin to those arguments about how Batman Can't Be Black., basically.

"If this was "Spectre-Breakers 2016" it'd be easier to set to the side, but it's Ghostbusters so now I have to pay attention to it, and I don't wanna."

I think you and many people are simply over analyzing it .. It's really simple.. People hate remakes ... People are fed up with unoriginality ..
You take that same resentment and multiply it tenfold since ghostbusters is such a cherished film and you get all this extra hate

I guarantee you will get the same number of YouTube dislikes when the inevitable Back to the Future remake trailer appears

 

[Platy]

Was the original God of Egypt your favourite childhood movie?

This is not the George Lucas special editions of Star Wars.

This isn't even close to Terminator Genisys completly erasing Terminator 1 and 2 from the timeline ...

This is like Evil Dead or Dawn of the Dead .... movies that exists while the originals still exist for you to love

 

[Nekofrog]

I think you and many people are simply over analyzing it .. It's really simple.. People hate remakes ... People are fed up with unoriginality ..
You take that same resentment and multiply it tenfold since ghostbusters is such a cherished film and you get all this extra hate

I guarantee you will get the same number of YouTube dislikes when the inevitable Back to the Future remake trailer appears

Only if it genderswaps Marty and Doc. Then it sure as heck will.

 

[kunonabi]

Fletch, Elvira: Mistress of the dark, Ghostbusters and Three Amigos were always on at my house growing up

Dude, that was my house as well.

 

[BronsonLee]

How the flying fuck did Robocop come up again in another fucking Ghostbusters thread

 

[Grizzlyjin]

I never would have expected that Ghostbusters would get such visceral reactions from people. It's a movie, not your childhood.

I'll be seeing this. I like Ghostbusters and I enjoyed Spy last year. Pretty simple math for me, and worth a matinee ticket price.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

As an IP

I'm not talking about IPs. I'm talking about that first movie. Which isn't for kids. Never has been. Wasn't created, concieved, or executed to be for kids in any way.

Again, I'm not saying there aren't some kids out there for whom that movie was their childhood favorite. It takes all kinds. I'm saying it seems disproportionate to me how many grown men are now swearing up and down that Ghostbusters was one of the key formative experiences in their childhoods to the extent they feel this protective over it.

All that said: It's absolutely a great movie, and I understand why kids would be fascinated with it enough to return to it later in life and wake up to all the shit they never got back then, and I can readily see (and identify with) scenarios where the deep appreciation comes from discovering layers in the comedy you didn't (and couldn't) realize were there when you were younger.

But that's not really the same thing as "It was my favorite childhood movie!" That's "It's a movie I remembered from childhood that got better as I got older."

Wasn't it PG though? That's kid movie enough.

Lotta shit was PG in 84 that wasn't meant for kids. Same way lotta shit is PG-13 now that isn't meant for kids.

I think you and many people are simply over analyzing it ..

The alternative is a lot more likely, which is that you're oversimplifying it for the sake of not having to really poke at it more than is convenient.

It's not like these thoughts I'm thinking are tortured, complicated things.

 

[PsychBat!]

How the flying fuck did Robocop come up again in another fucking Ghostbusters thread

it was a joke of my doing that went horribly wrong and I blame you

EDIT: More like a facetious post.

 

[BronsonLee]

it was a joke of my doing that went horribly wrong and I blame you

I DIDN'T DO SHIT

 

[Nekofrog]

I went to my first day of kindergarten in 1989 in a Ghostbusters uniform and then wore it every friday

I just remembered that reading this thread.

 

[PsychBat!]

I DIDN'T DO SHIT

YOU WATCHED A MOVIE WITH YOUNG TONY STARK AND AUNT MAY! YOU DID ENOUGH!

 

[TheWorthyEdge]

I was able to find an archive of the Reddit plot summary post and this trailer defiantly proves it was true. Some of the things in this trailer mentioned in the plot summary:

Spoiler

One of the concert goers has a selfie stick (please kill yourself now) and takes a picture of the dragon-ghost as it is perched on Leslie Jones shoulder in the crowd.

The main villain Rowan that Jone's encountered in the subway, meanwhile is channeling more ghosts in shitty mirrors with a very large machine. (we see the mirrors with ghosts briefly in this trailer).

Rowan is now a ghost and possesses McCarthy, then Hemsworth after Jones slaps the ghost out of McCarthy. Hemsworth then travels on the ECTO 2 motorcycle to the ghost channeling machine to release them all.

[On the villian Rowan] He gets bigger and expands as large as a tall building, busting out of it exposing the portal.

Ew. That was bad...

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I went to my first day of kindergarten in 1989 in a Ghostbusters uniform and then wore it every friday

That just made me grin.

 

[BronsonLee]

YOU WATCHED A MOVIE WITH YOUNG TONY STARK AND AUNT MAY! YOU DID ENOUGH!

Yeah that movie was better than OG Ghostbusters.

AND Robocop.

 

[Bruce Springsteen]

Did my part. Downvoted.

The problem with this shit is the fact that they tried to find the female equiv's of the original cast. They literally act as it is some homage to the original movie which it comes of as insulting.

You actually felt insulted?

 

[Rabbi_Vole]

Dude, that was my house as well.

I was mesmerized by the tassel scene in Elvira as a child.

 

[PsychBat!]

Yeah that movie was better than OG Ghostbusters.

AND Robocop.

You probably thought Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was a good movie worthy of Bobby Robert's approval.

You'll never get away with this blasphemy! I'LL BE BACK!!!!

 

[plasmawave]

You actually felt insulted?

Did you see the new Lethal Weapon trailer?

 

[Puck Beaverton]

All children films should have ghost blowjobs.

 

[longdi]

Think it would also helped if the trailer did not have bunch of CGI ghosts doing bunch of CGI explosions.

WheneverI see stuff like this, I associate it with a mediocre film using computer tech as a lazy cover-up

 

[PsychBat!]

It really is now lol.

How about now?

 

[BronsonLee]

You probably thought Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was a good movie worthy of Bobby Robert's approval.

You'll never get away with this blasphemy! I'LL BE BACK!!!!

The only thing I remember about that movie was the mudfight, mostly because it came out when I was like 9

Bobby probably loved it, I know what he likes!

 

[PsychBat!]

So Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was Bobby's favorite movie: CONFIRMED

 

[Mr. Pointy]

Lotta shit was PG in 84 that wasn't meant for kids. Same way lotta shit is PG-13 now that isn't meant for kids.

I'm just curious, but what, for you, would be classified as a 80's kid movie?

As an aside, I'm trying to remember if the Ghostbusters toyline and cartoons came out during the first film or after the first film blew up.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Bobby probably loved it, I know what he likes!

We screened that for one week at my theater when I was a projectionist. Mon-Thurs it got maybe 3 people a night. The busiest night was Saturday. 8 people showed up. They left midway through and 3 of them fought the other 5 in the parking lot.

One of them threw a full 40 bottle at another's head and it just bounced off with a hollow "punggg" sound before breaking on the concrete. At that point the manager was like "I'm calling the cops" and they bailed out.

That movie is one of the biggest pieces of shit ever made.

 

[A Link to the Past]

Even more so than Pixels, Ridiculous Six - a movie that had a lot of complaints about racism (including by the crew) and which was made by someone who consistently makes shit - has more likes than dislikes.

 

[chaobreaker]

Ghostbusters likely isn't a lot of people's favorite childhood movie, either.

It's not even a fucking kids movie.

I agree with you to an extent but Robocop was one of the more raunchy and violent action movies of that time but got all of kid friendly toys, video games, and a cartoon series.