excelsiorlef
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Next to no one called it a feminist masterpiece and most acknowledging the sexism issue did not claim everyone who disliked it was a sexist monster.
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Mr Plinkett reviews Ghostbusters (2016)
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Next to no one called it a feminist masterpiece and most acknowledging the sexism issue did not claim everyone who disliked it was a sexist monster.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
If you want to play revisionist history and ignore the James Rolfe event, that's up to you.
You should take your own advice on equating "tiny parts of the internet" from last year though:
Agent_Carnage
Member
His reviews are pretty lenghty. His famous Episode 1 review was like an hour and a half. He does into great detail.
These things, they take time.
If you go to the effort of showing examples side by side, it's going to be lengthy.
Red Liquorice
Member
The review is half the length of the movie itself.
excelsiorlef
Member
That's how they do it.
When they do it well it absolutely justifies the length of their reviews.
Sony
Banned
I've enjoyed this review more.
And more than double as good!
Devilinthiscity
Member
Had no idea about that Dan Aykroyd clip. He seemed pretty displeased. Anyway, the review was great. Pretty much nailed what made the movie insufferably bad for me. The Papa Johns Coca Cola thing was pretty surprising as well, lol.
Your name just makes this great.
I'm pretty sure Dan Aykroyd was going to be the producer of Sony's Ghost Corps that oversaw the Ghostbuster franchise movies and that's probably not happening now.
excelsiorlef
Member
I still don't understand why the budget wasn't 50 million max
biggersmaller
Banned
Nailed it. Great review.
This debate makes my head hurt.
I like GB 2016. Not because it's a feminist film. I just like GB stuff. But I don't hold OG GB up as a goat classic.
Spieler Eins
Member
Just shut the movie division down and buy FROM Software. Let's go.
MrCunningham
Member
Bend Over, Bend Over, let Plinkett Come Over....
Didn't I see a post from you the other day calling someone out for speaking on behalf of somebody else?
Yet here you are..
Azure Dream
Member
...Sell it to Disney.
rackham
Banned
Can't believe people still think there was a sexism problem related to this movie.
There's sexist comments on every Youtube video. SONY or Paul Fiege was actively deleting comments on youtube trailers that didn't align to their "PEOPLE ARE SEXIST THAT'S WHY THEY DON'T WANNA SEE THIS MOVIE."
How nefarious can you get. Not to mention that that trailer made Leslie Jones look like a loud piece of shit and the rest of the cast as bumbling idiots. The trailer was the biggest piece of shit I've probably ever seen.
Also, ugh at people having to explain every single thing about this review- even the fucking narration voice of Mr. Plinkett.
And people mad at James Rolfe for calling a piece of shit for what it was?? Fucking pathetic.
There's sexist comments on every Youtube video. SONY or Paul Fiege was actively deleting comments on youtube trailers that didn't align to their "PEOPLE ARE SEXIST THAT'S WHY THEY DON'T WANNA SEE THIS MOVIE."
How nefarious can you get. Not to mention that that trailer made Leslie Jones look like a loud piece of shit and the rest of the cast as bumbling idiots. The trailer was the biggest piece of shit I've probably ever seen.
Also, ugh at people having to explain every single thing about this review- even the fucking narration voice of Mr. Plinkett.
And people mad at James Rolfe for calling a piece of shit for what it was?? Fucking pathetic.
And that's BS. From watching BTS/making of stuff, Feig had a big creative role in at least Spy beyond "just" being the director. He's no Edgar Wright when it comes to the visual side, but to downplay his role in Spy & such is dumb.
Or it's probably because some people don't give enough of a shit to remember things about random posters on a dumb internet forum.
I know I don't even look at the names of the posters most of the time, it doesn't matter to me.
Spieler Eins
Member
I'm glad that I don't recognize most American B-tier brands. Like when people complained about product placement in Breaking Bad, all I'd ever perceive is Coca Cola - never heard of the rest.
ForkNetwork
Banned
People were mad because he refused to pay to watch a remake he had zero interest in.
Its just...huh?
What James Rolfe event?
Puck Beaverton
Banned
People still not getting why people laughed at Rolfe's brave stand against reviewing Ghostbusters.
BassForever
Member
Guy who makes internet videos talking about stuff who made a lot of videos talking about every element of ghostbusters made a video explaining why he wouldn't see the new one since his fans would have badgered him for a review hoping he would trash it. That really should have been the end of the conversation.
gutter_trash
Banned
The Product Placement portion exposed the shameless nature of the film.
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as for James Rolfe, too many people are really looking for a villain.
I was hyper pissed about the Robocop reboot that I decided to NOT WATCH IT; then I decided to do the same with Ghostbusters.
James Rolfe was in the right when it came to a franchise that he adored and wishing to keep his memories of his beloved franchise intact without taint
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz8X2A7wHyQ
Spieler Eins
Member
Or is it? They do that expectation joke all the time, like the sperm one at the end.
Triggerhappytel
Member
I'm about half an hour in. Good review so far - much better than his Force Awakens review, but I think in part because this is much more obviously flawed film (felt like he reviewed TFA because it was expected rather than he had good material for a Plinkett review).
I first saw it only about a month ago and thought it was straight-down-the-middle average. Lot of potential there, but the jokes almost all miss, it lacked any scariness (I still find the original two pretty creepy in places) and the action scenes were total shit.
I first saw it only about a month ago and thought it was straight-down-the-middle average. Lot of potential there, but the jokes almost all miss, it lacked any scariness (I still find the original two pretty creepy in places) and the action scenes were total shit.
TheDinoman
Member
That'd be funny, but I doubt it. They typically avoid doing HITB episodes on family/kid friendly animated features.
But Plinkett has reviewed weird kid shit like Baby's Day Out and Cop Dog in the past, so maybe....lol.
Spieler Eins
Member
You're doing great, really awesome idea going with that singing number... that's from some Disney movie, isn't it?
Wizard of Oz actually had way less of an impact outside of America, I don't think I've ever seen it aired around here, unlike certain other classics
Those were joke reviews for people who enjoy his character shitting on something stupid. Then you have reviews like this one where he breaks down a movie into fine, detailed pieces.
I doubt he'll do the Emoji movie, unless there's depths to it's badness.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
The side of the media shitstorm in favour of the film reached its peak "all detractors are basement dwelling sexist nerds" bullshit when Rolfe made a video telling the thousands of people that kept asking him, in a calm and reasonable way, why he wasn't going to be paying and going to see a film he knew was going to be shit.
A quick "james rolfe ghostbusters" google will throw up some of the many hitpieces that went out, some featuring Twitter collections of the hot takes on why he was a sexist or whatever just because.
As I said, it was the peak, because in the cool light of a week or so later, people may have privately realised they had been driven into a frenzy and gone too far, made all the more obvious by the film coming out, doing not very well, and slowly being accepted as shit.
At least Devin Faraci's career is finally dead, huh!
BLAUcopter
Member
Urg, this movie was a total piece of shit. It's up there with kingdom of the crystal skull and die hard 4.0.
Here's an idea Hollywood, how about you fuck off? Thanks.
Triggerhappytel
Member
I don't know actual dates or anything, but I think those reviews were before Plinkett/RLM got big, and these days his energy is probably better spent breaking down a more popular film that'll generate more conversation and get more views.
Succinct Verbosity
Member
Interesting that he blamed the actors in the end the most. For me, Sony films are so consistently awful I just naturally think very awful decision is directly from them.
Watched the review, it was decent for Plinkett, didn't laugh as much as his earlier reviews though. I also think the structure of the video was a bit messy. Anyway, haven't watched the movie but is that title screen real? It's fucking bad for a hollywood movie. Ghostbusters written in a simple ugly font with a shot of NYC in the background. There are youtube videos with better title sequences.
EDIT: wow, and that fucking fade in - fade out of the text is so cheap.
EDIT: wow, and that fucking fade in - fade out of the text is so cheap.
gutter_trash
Banned
Wizard of Oz is a Golden Age classic
CBS aired it almost yearly in the 1980s, LOL
rackham
Banned
More like losers looking for a controversy to fill their "NERD IS A MISOGYNIST!" argument
Englebert3rd
Unconfirmed Member
I didn't see anything sexist on his video at all, it was just a response and a fair one at it. The reboot would've sucked, as reboots normally do (see Total Recall, Robocop, Terminator, etc.)
At least he's been vindicated with all the reviews and people realising it's not a good movie.
Great review by Plinkett.
I think he was mostly blaming Feig for not reigning in the actors and instead encouraging them to ad-lib.
plasmawave
Banned
The only way I see this happening is Plinkette doing a review on Sony Pic as a whole.
That was the joke.
Yeah, at first i thought the ad-lib thing was just a nitpick.. and then the behind the scenes footage showed up (45 minutes of ad-lib for a single scene?)
"I had to allow my cast to take control of the film"