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Post by Commander_Jim on Feb 18, 2017 13:54:01 GMT
See it or be square
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 3:20:17 GMT
I watched it the other night. It was much better than I'd been led to believe. It's cleverly written in many places and the actors are funny. The visual effects are very entertaining.
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Post by egon1982 on Feb 19, 2017 11:01:33 GMT
The worst film of 2016 i've ever seen.
Ghostbusters never needed to be continued in film. They couldn't get a cast reunion together outside the video game and after Harold Ramis died any idea about a third film should have been put to rest. They had plenty of material to work with the franchise in other mediums. It didn't need saving as a film franchise. It left enough of a legacy as a pop culture icon of the 80s to stay as a two film series. The problem is film studios are too greedy for their own good and think that established franchise films coming back hold some kind of guaranteed profit margins based on brand name alone. Nobody is smart enough to look at a brand like Ghostbusters and properly and efficiently determine the best ways to utilize it based on the fanbase and the legacy it holds.
Look at Back to the future as an example of utilizing the brand in ways that don't mess with the legacy it left. They show enormous respect to their fanbase coming out with different merchandise and apparel and media over the years. They know you can't recreate the magic they had so they let the franchise live on through the fans love of the trilogy. Ghostbusters did so well with the video game. They gave their fans something so authentic and respectful to the films that it's such a shame they had to go the route they did for GB2016 in order to bank off its name. I am very thankful the new film flopped at the box-office and how it killed the franchise and sometimes it's better to kill something then let it suffer. This franchise is now like a wounded half-dead animal since the Real GBs ended and nothing else good has came out in the last 25 years with the exception of the 2009 video game and the merchandise and comics by IDW, no movies since then and other games during the years have sucked and Extreme GBs was ok show and this remake flopped at the box-office.
You just can't recapture the same lightning in a bottle like the original as the original focused on a brilliant mature intelligent script and reminded how well crafted it is a supernatural fantasy comedy adventure with horror trimmings, a solid cast of talented comedy actors who are given just enough space to subtly give wit around without undermining the world of the story. Has an edge to it in the original as the original is what i call great filmmaking.
The new version hits some viewers in the face with painfully forced juvenile Sandler (modern Sandler mind you)-esque humor, a poorly written unfunny script, poor pacing and plus no passion but money grab is. Plus none of the edge of the original movie and a lame villain who lacks the menace of Gozer and Viggo. This shows what 80's and 90's comedy did right, and what some modern comedy is doing wrong. Not to mention shooting the logo in the dick as a bad guy which is an insult to the franchise and there is no passion in this remake and just a cash-grab made by Sony. I have a few female friends who thought this remake was poorly written, sexist towards men as one of my lady friends said it's an unfunny insult to women with such man hating agenda and well i enjoyed a few of Feig's movies, i felt he was the wrong guy for this project and even he didn't want to do it at first but he had to for the paycheck and he felt out of his comfort zone as R-rated films is what he is good at and not big budget PG-13 films as after this flopped, he should go back to original stuff.
Hollywood needs to focus on making good films and focus on the new franchises like Jack Reacher, Bourne, John Wick, Marvel Studios etc. not digging up some dead favorite franchises and desperately sucking the dried up blood of the corpses into some focus-group approved poorly written piece of junk. Ghostbusters is best left alone. They should had made Ghostbusters 3 years ago like in the 90's, and now that Harold Ramis is dead so has Ghostbusters.
I hope some people here will understand what i am saying as the world has moved on and some franchises need to be dead and left alone only for the memory of the original to be seen/loved/watched by everyone for years to come on what quality filmmaking is all about and that i am right with my truth about why some series should be left alone as some would and not to recycle some past glories as we moved on and need some fresh new things for current film.
Sometimes dead is better like Jud Crandall in Pet Sematary would say and the franchise died with Harold Ramis.
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Feb 21, 2017 0:52:49 GMT
I liked the Ghost Army idea, that's about it. Film was average at best.
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Post by barkingbaphomet on Feb 22, 2017 2:32:50 GMT
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Post by scabab on Feb 22, 2017 2:35:44 GMT
I thought it was much better than expected. I didn't think much of all the trailers at all but I was entertained by it, I even prefer it to Ghostbusters 2 which was crap itself.
It was funnier than I thought mainly.
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Post by femalefan on Feb 22, 2017 2:49:48 GMT
I've already seen it and thought it was terrible.
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Post by darkpast on Feb 22, 2017 3:27:55 GMT
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Post by MCDemuth on Feb 22, 2017 3:38:16 GMT
I saw all the negative discussions on the Ghostbusters (2016) board at IMDb... and out of morbid curiosity I still had to see it. I watched the film on DVD without any expectations... I can understand why many did not enjoy the movie... But, I didn't think it was as bad as I was led to believe, either. Having a female team this time around, did not bother me at all. However, I think that the movie should have been much better. If it had different writers, or a different director... That might have done it.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Feb 22, 2017 12:33:32 GMT
Not interested in remakes.
Original ideas only please.
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Post by egon1982 on Feb 22, 2017 13:47:21 GMT
Not interested in remakes. Original ideas only please. Do you agree Hollywood needs to leave some classics alone like Ghostbusters and find new glory and rediscover the spirit that made great movies/franchises, not keep on recycling past glories? and you agree this franchise died with Harold?
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Post by ashverses on Feb 22, 2017 14:06:10 GMT
Ghostbusters was ok, it wasn't as bad as the underserved rage it gets. For a "meh" movie it gets a lot of attention instead of being forgotten. I saw many movies in 2016 and it is there are at least 20 films worse then Ghostbusters that I saw. I'll list only a few Suicide Squad (made and edited by a 10 year old boy who forgot his Ritalin) The Legend of Tarzan (just ridicules) Assassins Creed (so disappointed) Independence Day: Resuckence Just to name a few of the the bigger movies that sucked. This don't get the widespread . And the hostility that this movie and the actresses received was juvenile rubbish. All for a movie that they didn't like. Discuss
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 14:26:35 GMT
It looks awful and I don't want to waste 2hrs of my life on it. I don't find McCarthy funny either and I'm not sexist or misogynist as I'm female lol.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Feb 22, 2017 14:33:11 GMT
Not interested in remakes. Original ideas only please. Do you agree Hollywood needs to leave some classics alone like Ghostbusters and find new glory and rediscover the spirit that made great movies/franchises, not keep on recycling past glories? and you agree this franchise died with Harold? I agree. If I was a director or actor and the only job I could get was a remake of an already established movie I'd consider a job in the fast food industry.
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Post by Wesley Crusher on Feb 22, 2017 14:40:39 GMT
I saw it ... I was not impressed 3/10
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Post by deeznutz on Feb 22, 2017 19:55:32 GMT
I would rather had re-watched the original in a theatre as posted above it was missing the magic of the original and a decent gozer villain, you can't tell me Chris hemsworth prancing about was scary ... Cmon.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Feb 23, 2017 9:40:40 GMT
I hated it.
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Post by MooseNugget on Feb 23, 2017 10:41:07 GMT
The new Ghostbusters was terrible. It's nothing worth seeing and probably pissed most, if not all, fans off. 3/10.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 11:45:07 GMT
I thought it was much better than expected. I didn't think much of all the trailers at all but I was entertained by it, I even prefer it to Ghostbusters 2 which was crap itself. It was funnier than I thought mainly. Agreed. I saw it in theaters, and I thought it was really fresh and clever. I also must have missed all the feminist agenda messages, blatant or subliminal. It just seemed like four silly women having fun. I also don't don't think misogynists are what caused it to fail. People get irritated when you rewrite their favorite classics. If they would have remade Star Trek with a female Kirk and Spock, I would probably skipped it for that reason.
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