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Ghostbusters Review Thread [Certified Fresh - 75%]
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Just got back, it was pretty good. I've seen much worse films in the cinema this year. Kinda struggled in the first half as it tried to explain the backstory of everything and there was a lot of technobabble. Pretty fun old school popcorn flick.
Happy to have paid for it especially to screw the haters
Happy to have paid for it especially to screw the haters
brandonh83
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I think people are primarily comparing the reviews, whether a 6 or 7 average, to the insane amount of vitriol and shit-flinging this movie has caused over the past few years. As it turns out, it's pretty decent and a lot of people seem to like it. Not everyone, of course, but it's more positive than negative.
Violence Jack
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So very bitter.
This is hilarious. Fighting a losing worthless cause to the bitter end.
For sure. All because some nerds took outright offence and began spitting poison over a reboot of a movie about a bunch of comedians shooting lasers at ghosts. That was the line in the sand, apparently. That was the moral battle that had to be won.
Fucking hilarious. The original Ghostbusters is one of my all-time favorite movies, but no matter how good or bad this new movie turned out, its existence was hardly a fucking problem. Hell, even if the movie turned out to be crap, these people were always going to look like assholes.
brandonh83
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That's why I think I never got up in arms about this. At worst, it'd turn out to just be a bad movie. I already lived my childhood.
Riposte
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So very bitter.
They may be bitter, but they are fortunate enough to have an audience obsessed with them enough to spawn-camp reddit posts that end up with 25 upvotes.
There's an alarming segment of the male population that still are living it, even if they are already balding.
Messofanego
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The new TMNT movies are garbage compared to Ghostbusters. What a terrible comparison. A better comparison in terms of reboot quality is the new Planet Of The Apes movies.
Have fun in missing out on the only good non-comic book blockbuster film of 2016 so far. Correction, the other one is Nice Guys. Also, the 3D is amazing.
streetsahead123
Banned
A 6.5 average isn't bad. It's very rare for a movie to have an average rating above an 8.0, even if it's got a Tomatometer close to 100%
Messofanego
Banned
It's the only one?!
That's the big question. Has the well been poisoned?
6.1/10 is three stars (in fact, the reason why Rotten Tomatoes ratings almost entirely seem to fall into a certain range is because so many critics give star ratings)
Watch their logic slide into the video game world, where a score of 6.1 is considered "pure trash".
brandonh83
Banned
The goal posts will be adjusted until they're playing ping pong.
excelsiorlef
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I think the thing with games is that they require a much more significant financial investment
But I still agree that too many people treat 6 put of 10 as if it was a 2 or 3 in videogames
ArkkAngel007
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Hated the first few trailers, but enjoyed Spy (McCarthy and Byrne sold it, though JS was a scene stealer). Seeing the film reviewing well is making it worth watching when it gets a home release (Lights Out and Jason Bourne are my theater budget winners atm).
Best thing is approaching the end of the black&white arguments about the film.
Best thing is approaching the end of the black&white arguments about the film.
lmfaoooooo
metalslimer
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Sorry if you already explained this but how you do know frowning upon the male sex is not equivalent to feminism right?
brandonh83
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Sir_Crocodile
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Watched it today.
Doesn't have the same feel as the Ramis ghostbuster films, and the music sucks. But if you take it on its own it's a decent film. Better then independence day 2, that's for sure
Doesn't have the same feel as the Ramis ghostbuster films, and the music sucks. But if you take it on its own it's a decent film. Better then independence day 2, that's for sure
low bar
Was it funny?
Sir_Crocodile
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I laughed a fair bit, so did the people I was with and others in the cinema.
Was definitely feigy humour though, he wasn't trying to capture the ramis style at all.
excelsiorlef
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And much the better for it I'd imagine.
Anyone trying to do someone else's humour style unless their own style is already similar is bound to fail far more often than succeed
ID2 was the crappiest film I saw in theatres of the last 5 years. That's a pretty low bar.
The rest of your take sounds promising.
I hate Mccarthy...but love Wiig( she is easily one of the funniest people on the planet). So ill be seeing it for her.
For people who have seen it do they have the chemistry as they did in Bridesmaids(loved) Or is this a "Tammy"?
Also holy shit the original Ghostbusters has a 97% fresh rating. This movie never had a chance to live up to it.
For people who have seen it do they have the chemistry as they did in Bridesmaids(loved) Or is this a "Tammy"?
Also holy shit the original Ghostbusters has a 97% fresh rating. This movie never had a chance to live up to it.
Sir_Crocodile
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Weirdly I felt like he should have left his comfort zone a bit more often. There was a scene at the beginning that was played almost entirely straight and it was very effective. Might have bumped it up to a must see with a few more scenes like that.
Well, that's the last film I saw before this lol. I watch about 40 movies a year in the cinema, so I see worse films then ID2 on a regular basis.
I haven't seen those films, but I thought McKinnon was better then both of them. Mccarthy didn't have as good a part as she did in Spy though
excelsiorlef
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Oh exit comfort zone sure but not so far as to wholesale try to do someone else's humour style.
Spirit of Jazz
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I don't think the humour was a huge issue, but I think the film would of benefited big time from some genuinely scary moments as they're some of the scenes that I still remember most vividly in the original movies.
More moments along the lines of the introduction of the villain would have been great rather than the reliance of ooze and referential humour.
Funniest: McKinnon and Hemsworth
Decent: Wiig
Forgettable: McCarthy and Jones
Wiig and McCarthy didn't really play off each other.
Wiig and Hemsworth play off each other well.
As for McKinnon, she should have gotten top billing here as she easily put in the best performance. Instead she is credited last of the four.
Messofanego
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Great chemistry. They're very love-and-hate towards each other which makes for witty dialogue. Although I didn't bother watching Tammy.
HP_Wuvcraft
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As for McKinnon, she should have gotten top billing here as she easily put in the best performance. Instead she is credited last of the four.
Well, one isn't white. You can't put the non-white one last.
The Real Abed
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Oh please. He's just making fun like Jay from RLM did.
Jay Bauman:
GHOSTBUSTERS TRAILER REVIEW
Red Letter Media's Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer Reaction! (This is the GOAT)
Rocco:
The New Ghostbusters Is BETTER Than The Original
The New Ghostbusters SUCKS
Rocco is awesome.
WordAssassin
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It kind of feels like you think we're dogging the film? Someone asked, explicitly, if the original Ghostbusters felt like a Saturday morning cartoon like the new one, which they had just seen. The answer is a resounding no. There is nothing wrong here and I don't really understand how this has spun off into an ongoing conversation, a yes or no question was asked and the answer was given. There's no hair to split here. Does Ghostbusters 1984 feel like a Saturday morning cartoon? No. That's the entirety of the conversation right there. Nobody said anything about any agenda or any other bullshit, and you can have multiple Ghostbusters films with different tones that all still feel like Ghostbusters movies but that isn't what was asked.
brandonh83
Banned
Collider was pretty clear. If a person was in this film and they were not one of the four stars, they were portrayed as imbeciles. Sex had nothing to do with it. They were all idiots.
The Real Abed
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You have to admit that for some reason this damn movie has done some strange things to the internet. Especially ever since James Rolfe's stupid "Not gonna ever see it out of spite!" eXclamation that just set people off.Alrighty
However, I forgot to mention one other awesome video from Brad Jones that was in response to James's video:
Brad Refuses to Review an Upcoming Remake
excelsiorlef
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Alrighty
Peter Travers:
Good lord.
What's wrong with what Travers said?
Pretty much, nothing to me felt like an attack on men (except one line near the end "only men need alarms", made no sense whatsoever). Hemsworth I felt they went too far with how stupid he was depicted but it never felt like it was because he was a man.
brandonh83
Banned
I think critics should just talk about the movie and not the backlash. And Travers is considered a top critic. The more critics attack the attackers... I mean, it isn't productive and reviews especially from "prestigious" reviewers shouldn't waste any review space mentioning it.
That's just how I feel about it, anyway. They have 105 minutes of film they need to be talking about instead of internet detractors. I look to reviews, largely, for information and this is not information.
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