What do you guys think of this reboot? I've heard a lot of negative press about the trailers being unfunny, and a lot of misogynist rants about why they needed to do an all-femaile version of this movie, but the reviews have been generally positive if not overwhelmingly so. I don't have any overwhelming desire to rush out to the theaters to see this, though I'll probably see it when it comes to Netflix. In fact, that's how I've been feeling about a lot of movies this summer.

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What do you guys think of this reboot? I've heard a lot of negative press about the trailers being unfunny, and a lot of misogynist rants about why they needed to do an all-femaile version of this movie, but the reviews have been generally positive if not overwhelmingly so. I don't have any overwhelming desire to rush out to the theaters to see this, though I'll probably see it when it comes to Netflix. In fact, that's how I've been feeling about a lot of movies this summer.

Me too, this years its been a bit underwhelming why remake Ghostbusters when it was perfect the way it was, what's next?......lets just hope Suicide Sqad, Jason Borne lives up to the hype.

with a budget of 140million and I will guess a weekend gross of $45Million (domestic) that this movie is a flop. I will not watch it even if for free

I haven't seen the new Ghostbusters so I have no idea whether it's good or not, but there is a distinct disparity between the opinions of the critics and the general audience for it. Usually when this happens in the past where the critics like a movie and the audience doesn't, it's for an arthouse film, not a lowbrow comedy like this. Which makes me suspect that maybe some critics felt pressure to give Ghostbusters a positive review because of its feminist spin.

sexton said:

I never understood why everybody loved the original...I was 10 years old and dont ever remember laughing. Maybe I need to watch it again...

UncleJam said:

FragileUndertow said:

I wont say its great, but i enjoyed it and so did the family. I have no regret seeing it

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I went in skeptical and left satisfied. It wasn't The Godfather, thats for sure. My only beef is that the ghosts shoulda got more play.

imo, the original ghostbusters never needed a remake and i'm sick of all of Hollywood's remakes. wtf? isn't anyone writing anything new? can't we have some new ideas?


and the mysogynistic fallout against the 'all-female cast' and specifically against leslie jones sickens me. http://abcnews.go.com/Ent...d=40698459

"Jones is one of the stars of the new "Ghostbusters," which was released this weekend and has been the target of attacks for its all-female leads. But Jones, 48, in particular, has been bombarded with racist and misogynist comments. She fought back on Twitter Monday.

Jones said she had been likened to "apes" and sent obscene photos, and noted that she was blocking the abusive Twitter users."

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I saw this last weekend. It was rather painful to get thru. The special effects looked very 80's. I can't compare it to the original film because I haven't seen it since 1984.

nonames said:

EmmaMcG said:

I think it's very existence justifies the hate. The fact that they turned what was a classic series into a rip off of Pixels just adds to that. It was made to appeal to a very specific audience, which I'm obviously not a part of, but it didn't even achieve that low goal of satisfying fans of Bridesmaids and the like.

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As I was watching it I came to terms with the new film as more of an homage to the popular children's cartoon which itself was more of an homage to the movie. Even the visual of the characters themselves is very much based on the cartoon (The Real Ghostbusters featuring the voice talents of the incomparable Arsenio Hall).

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In male cartoon drag we have Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones

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nonames said:

It's the bastard offspring of the 2009 Ghostbusters video game, and the film Bridesmaids. Didn't enjoy it at all.

Lianachan said:

EmmaMcG said:

I thought it was pretty dumb...not terrible, just kinda lame.

EmmaMcG said:

BobGeorge909 said:

EmmaMcG said:

I heard there is a lot of criticism of Leslie Jones by Black people, as they seen her as a coon representing many dated stereotypes, part mammy, part Jezebel.

Awful...!! And not because of the girls in it, I thought they did ok considering the dire script they had to work with.

Given the right material the new cast could have easily made it work. Annoyingly, the press reviews have been positive, like they're scared of criticising the film in any way in case they get accused of being sexist.

Cheeky plug for my recent article on it: http://filmsfilmsfilms.co...6-07-12-93

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EmmaMcG said:

UncleJam said:

I never understood why everybody loved the original...I was 10 years old and dont ever remember laughing. Maybe I need to watch it again...

Watch the original again. Just my opinion, but I'd consider it to be one of the best comedies ever made. The subtle interactions between the main cast, the way every joke isn't overplayed and the fact that people aren't screaming things like "OH MY GOD ARE YOU KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW" like how they do in modern comedies are just some examples of why I think it's one of the best.

... my fave film as a kid and still in my top ten now. Love that Murray improvised most of his lines to, gave the film such a natural feel "We came, we saw, we kicked its ass!".

That's what seemed to be lacking the most in the new one ... the script and the dialogue was so stale, like they chewed it over and over through endless rewrites.

Adorecream said:

Also too, all of these movies are sensatonalised nonsense, it is actuallyvery hard to bust ghosts as they put it. Ghosts are really residual pools of psyhic energy that manifest around spots of high drama (Hence why Hospitals and theatres are mostly involved). Hollywood and American story tellers like Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King have a lot to answer for, thanks to them, Gingerbread gothic (A style in vogue 1845 to about 1885) and high Victorian (1870s - 1900s) i universally derided as haunted house architecture.

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They can not disseminate between ghosts and spirits (Harmless) and demons (Truly malevolent) and bust them by catching them with ray guns is daft, so are shows like Most Haunted and several American ones like a Haunting which are all usually 100 % fake or find nothing of interest, even in really haunted places like Poveglia and Borley. I think between 1984 and 2016 now understanding the Paranormal has got more scientific and the concept of "Ghostbusting" is dated and laughable.

Adorecream said:

Also too, all of these movies are sensatonalised nonsense, it is actuallyvery hard to bust ghosts as they put it. Ghosts are really residual pools of psyhic energy that manifest around spots of high drama (Hence why Hospitals and theatres are mostly involved). Hollywood and American story tellers like Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King have a lot to answer for, thanks to them, Gingerbread gothic (A style in vogue 1845 to about 1885) and high Victorian (1870s - 1900s) i universally derided as haunted house architecture.

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They can not disseminate between ghosts and spirits (Harmless) and demons (Truly malevolent) and bust them by catching them with ray guns is daft, so are shows like Most Haunted and several American ones like a Haunting which are all usually 100 % fake or find nothing of interest, even in really haunted places like Poveglia and Borley. I think between 1984 and 2016 now understanding the Paranormal has got more scientific and the concept of "Ghostbusting" is dated and laughable.

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