The New Ghostbusters - Part 10

[Isildur´s Heir]

I haven't watched the movie and i have no interest in doing so, but the honest trailers video is hilarious and everything i thought the movie would be.

The problem started by the idea itself: Let's make a Ghostbusters remake with an all female cast.....WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!!?

The moment your first idea is to play on the "the original was all male, so let's go all female"...do yourself a favor and don't....just don't do it...it's STUPID!!

And then you have the black chick (Winston), the fat chick (Stanz), the chick with glasses (Spengler)....and the female Venkman...oh yeah, and the male Janine.

Everything about it RIDICULOUS!!

I particularly liked the Pixels (another movie i haven't watched) and Ghostbusters comparison...

 

[CJ]

I was actually one of the few people who didn't mind the trailers (The head-spinning scene with McCarthy was funny) I was willing to give it a chance.

What a disaster. Boring, nothing funny about it. No firehouse, pointless cameos. The action scene at the end was good, but otherwise, hated it.

 

[Vaibow]

They should have never hired the Director they chose. He was wrong for obvious reasons. Not wanting to sound patronizing, but true.

They managed to get the entire original cast to cameo - i repeat, they got all the cast from the original together on set to appear in a new GB movie BUT THEY WERE NOT PLAYING THEIR ORIGINAL, MUCH LOVED CHARACTERS. Why????

I can handle an all girl cast, if the story needs it to be that way, so be it - but the replies the Director gave 'women are funnier' blah blah. They were all basically female versions of the original - original is not the word to describe that.

Patty could have been the niece of Winston, she is the one that is the geek, the recluse, the silent type with smart quips. She gets her pals together, they try and track down the rest. Murray had enough screen time in this mess to deliver different lines and keep it in continuity.

The director fanned the flames a lot.

Had the movie been good, the cream will have risen as they say.

It was a total missed opportunity.

 

[MydnightPhoenix]

And no one's commenting how Feig's blaming the original move from the 80s for HIS failure. *sigh*.

Nothing in that article he said was bad. Your just as bad as the headline in telling half truths.

 

[samsnee]

Yes in hindsight they should have made this a legacy sequel.

 

[Serpico Jones]

Finally saw this on redbox and I have to say it reminded me a lot of watching an episode of Goosebumps on Nickelodeon. The humor wasn't funny at all unless you're in elementary school. It's a movie for kids only, imo.

 

[Serpico Jones]

Also, Paul Feig can't direct traffic. He was a really bad choice to direct this movie.

 

[Teelie]

I think if it was unrelated to Ghostbusters a lot of these critiques would not be lobbed against it.

It was nowhere near as bad as some of these comments make it out to be. It was by no means a good Ghostbusters movie either but taken alone it was entertaining.

 

[sueb1863]

That's been my point all along. If they hadn't hooked it up to Ghostbusters they could have done their own movie without any comparisons and it might have been better received.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

One can of paint can release two colors.
This movie is......

When will we see a Gremlins remake that makes a long winded needless controversy and ends up being as okay-ish as this, with a couple of main idiots, and embarrassing character moments? And a needlessly added mastermind human villain?

 

[Ipodman]

I think if it was unrelated to Ghostbusters a lot of these critiques would not be lobbed against it.

It was nowhere near as bad as some of these comments make it out to be. It was by no means a good Ghostbusters movie either but taken alone it was entertaining.

Even if it wasn't called Ghostbusters, I still wouldn't have liked it. The jokes are just not funny and the action is not exciting either. All the cameos are wasted.

 

[Steyin]

The funniest part of this whole film was the Boston fan ghost screaming YANKEES SUCK all of a sudden in the bar towards the end. Everything else was pretty meh.

 

[Erzengel]

Nothing was laugh out loud funny, I smiled/slightly chuckled at maybe 2 parts during. It's not the worst movie ever and while I was trying to not compare it to the original, like the trailers, it was really more slapsticky.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

Yes in hindsight they should have made this a legacy sequel.

I think they would've done a lot better if they did. I am still baffled at the dumb conceptional decision making behind this movie.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

The only cameo I did not expect is that of Ellen Ripley, and she's an end credits scene.
Speaking of end credits, how come part of the first trailer is something you only see in one of the end credit scenes?
At least it's there in the movie, not one of those in the trailer but nowhere to be found on film.

 

[Kanon]

Dan Aykroyd

The girls are great in it. Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig – what a wonderful, wonderful players they are – and Leslie Jones. I was really happy with the movie, but it cost too much. And Sony does not like to lose money. It made a lot of money around the world but just cost too much, making it economically not feasible to do another one. So that’s too bad – the director, he spent too much on it. He didn’t shoot scenes we suggested to him and several scenes that were going to be needed and he said “nah, we don’t need them”. Then we tested the movie and they needed them and he had to go back. About $30 to $40 million in reshoots. So he will not be back on the Sony lot any time soon.

https://***********/ross_maclean/status/871321678046998528

 

[MadVillainy]

Why not leave this to die

 

[terry78]

lol

 

[I Am The Knight]

Aykroyd roasting Feig

 

[Kanon]

Why not leave this to die

LOL, it was already dead, true, but the acknowledgement the the movie was too expensive, a certified flop, Feig a mistake that Sony doesn't want to see again. That's priceless

 

[regwec]

It is gratifying that Wonder Woman's box office success deprives the apologists for this movie of the "people were too sexist to see it" narrative.

 

[Teelie]

Not sure how many of those there actually were. I think there were more "I don't want to see Ghostbusters rebooted" than "ew, women" haters.

 

[Wheels]

I like Paul Feig's work for the most part. I hope he's able to get past this and move on. The movie just wasn't that good, and I say that as someone who was for the reboot.

 

[Symbiotic]

In a mixed-gender reboot, or an alternate version of the all-female team, I would've kept Wiig and McKinnon. But McCarthy and Jones I would've happily done without.

 

[Wheels]

I would try a 3D animated film the next go round. That's the best way to bring back the classic characters and get around the obvious issues. I'm not seeing any type of sequel without Venkman and Egon;; it just ain't happening. That's why I was cool with a reboot in the first place.