Please make it stop

6/24/2016 7:49:28 PM

No GB song is ever gonna be as good as Bobby Brown's theme to GB2, so whatevs.

6/24/2016 9:37:36 PM

"Bustin' makes me feel good!"

6/24/2016 10:06:24 PM

That new theme is fucking gross.

6/26/2016 11:26:02 AM

The song is turrible

6/26/2016 1:10:24 PM

Why do y'all hate women?

6/26/2016 1:42:15 PM

I'll rescue this shit show:

6/26/2016 6:29:57 PM

fuck - that new GB song is terrible. Just like this shitty ass movie.

side note - The Huey Lewis video - That dude at the 3:00 mark is staring at Huey thinkin', "this guys gonna fuck my girl tonight, hard. " Huey is giving that girl the business through his eyes.

[Edited on June 27, 2016 at 8:56 AM. Reason : d]

6/27/2016 8:52:23 AM

Man they really are going out of their way to run this shit into the ground...

6/28/2016 5:26:32 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is31GGfhz8o

6/28/2016 6:29:04 PM

The Be Kind Rewind theme

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LZbXmZQ0bjY

6/28/2016 7:44:01 PM

lmao @ the japanese GB theme

well done sir

6/29/2016 2:02:59 PM

movie is actually getting good reviews.

I say actually, because the entire world and its brother bob has decided to hate on this film because it stars a female cast.

7/10/2016 1:51:11 PM

^ naw it's mostly just dudes on the internet

7/10/2016 1:58:11 PM

There is no way in hell this film would get poor reviews. Dudes on the internet took care of that.

7/10/2016 2:12:08 PM

wtf, another press conspiracy theory?

the internet was wrong, again.

[Edited on July 10, 2016 at 4:38 PM. Reason : a]

7/10/2016 4:37:44 PM

Over/under on the rotten tomatoes critic score in a month? 65ish? Currently sitting at 74. Metacritic at 62.

Reviews are mixed but overall positive so far. Lot of praise for the cast and a lot of dumping on heavy cgi and weak plot. Nobody seems to feel like it's great or close to the original, but nobody seems to think it's an unholy abomination either.

[Edited on July 10, 2016 at 5:15 PM. Reason : Current score]

[Edited on July 10, 2016 at 5:34 PM. Reason : Metacritic]

7/10/2016 5:14:53 PM

Too late to edit, but only 46% among top critics thus far.

7/10/2016 6:07:06 PM

10/10

https://twitter.com/zachheltzel/status/752330262625652736

7/11/2016 12:29:48 AM

the original wasn't good enough for my childhood to be ruined by a reboot

7/11/2016 2:11:46 AM

^exactly.

7/11/2016 7:47:39 AM

I will give them credit for the twitter link. That is some "Grade A" trolling. Stage a photo shoot with some planted kids, and that is a no-win scenario for anyone trying to point it out.

7/11/2016 11:02:55 AM

I'm not sure taking photos at a press event can really be criticized for being staged.

7/11/2016 12:08:09 PM

guess ill be seeing this tomorrow at 7

7/13/2016 9:31:36 AM

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"Nobody seems to feel like it's great or close to the original, but nobody seems to think it's an unholy abomination either."

It feels to me more like the people who dislike this movie really hate it. Read Roeper's review and a couple others like it. I don't see much middle ground on the movie.

7/15/2016 12:01:46 AM

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"I'm not sure taking photos at a press event can really be criticized for being staged."

I'm still trying to figure out why this qualified as "entertainment news".

7/15/2016 9:20:25 AM

Saw it last night. Really wasn't all that bad, but it's clearly below the original (and the sequel). Loved some of the cameos, and some others were meh. Definitely parallels the original is some ways. The motivations for the main villain weren't well established, just seemed like "hey, here's this weird dude and he's planning something bad". Of the main characters, I thought McKinnon, Hemsworth, and Jones brought the funny, but I think there could have been more. Overall I feel like it didn't deserve all the hate it got prior to release.

7/15/2016 10:48:03 AM

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" Overall I feel like it didn't deserve all the hate it got prior to release."

BUT BUT BUT THEY'RE GIRLS! IN MY GHOSTBUSTERS!!!!!!

7/15/2016 10:53:03 AM

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"Really wasn't all that bad"

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"below the original (and the sequel)"

I thought it was generally accepted that Ghostbusters 2 was terrible and killed the franchise.

7/15/2016 10:57:51 AM

well I LIKED IT

7/15/2016 11:04:21 AM

I liked Ghostbusters 2! Not as good obviously but still enjoyable.

Unless Ghostbusters 3 gets overwhelmingly positive reviews I'm prob gonna wait until its out on DVD.

7/15/2016 11:16:54 AM

The soundtrack is a shitshow. Seems like every song is a cover/sample of the Ray Parker Jr song.

Needed more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YurreDu-bCo

7/15/2016 11:40:01 AM

It's cast with all the same comedic style characters or very annoying style characters

7/18/2016 3:28:20 AM

I actually enjoyed it. It wasn't great, but it was solidly entertaining.

Really liked the Holtzman character, McKinnon stole every scene she was in.

Cameos were great, even caught the Harold Ramis 'cameo' early on there.

Am not really clear if this is in the same 'world' as the first couple BG movies. There was an allusion to knowledge of these kinds of events being actively covered up, but they danced around any mention of events from the earlier movies.

Cant help it, was excited by the last bit after the credits.

Hemsworth was surprisingly funny, he seemed to be enjoying the hell out of himself.

7/18/2016 9:46:18 AM

I liked it, but I had a lot of problems with it.

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Erin & Abby didn't really have defined characters, which would be fine if the jokes were mile-a-minute or if there had been a lot of plot to get through, but the first two acts meandered far too much for so little development.

The scenes were entertaining, and McKinnon was her usual genius self, but a lot of it seemed to be built around ad-libs (the DeBarge scene) as opposed to things with story momentum. I understand that the original did a lot of this as well, but in a movie that has some severe holes (why is Rowan doing this?) I would've liked more content and less fluff. With that said, McKinnon makes everything work on the surface.

I didn't like how the comic tone seemed to shift on a dime. It's fine to be broad, and it's fine to have non-sequitur bits, but it often felt like they were thrown in randomly when there had been too much time between organic laugh lines. On a similar note, the editing was kind of odd; lots of two-shots of Erin & Abby that cut to Holtzmann for a random coverage shot just to give McKinnon more screen time.

I was disappointed that Rowan posing the cops for a dance sequence didn't pay off, but upon seeing how awesome it looked in the credits, how the hell was that not in the movie? Everyone wants to see Michael K. Williams dance.

I liked the third act a lot, as the action sequences were fun, and I didn't find the CGI offensive. I was a little confused by the selective use of ghost powers and the idea that ghosts could be killed and just be ghost corpses (they're already dead?), but I can chalk that up to typical action movie business and be okay with it. I'm still wondering why Times Square went back in time? I know Rowan said "enjoy the glory days of New York" or whatever because the ghosts were old, but how/why did he transform Times Square into 1972?

Also, I liked all of the cameos (especially Annie Potts & Sigourney Weaver) outside of the DREADFUL Ozzy one. Jesus.

7/19/2016 1:58:13 AM

I think one reason there were plot holes/undeveloped stories is that the Feig's first cut was reportedly a little over 4 hours long, and the theatrical cut ended up being a little under 2 hrs. Doesn't seem like it was edited fairly well if you leave out stuff like the dance sequence, motivation for Rowan, etc.

I thought the cameos were largely ok as well & agree that Potts/Weaver were the best ones, but I wasn't a big fan of the Murray cameo. I feel like his role should have been the mayor instead of Andy Garcia, if only because of the Jaws reference.

7/19/2016 10:22:57 AM

^ Murray did not want to do any more Ghostbusters, and Sony had to essentially sue him to appear (obscure clause in a previous Sony contract that Sony twisted just enough). Murray only wanted to appear if his character got killed off (a plot point he pushed if a true canonical Ghostbusters 3 ever occurred).

^^ This 2016 Ghostbusters movies was built entirely around focus groups using 'hot' demographics. That is why the movie is all over the place and has a lot of consistency problems. The fated dance scene tested cataclysmically in their focus groups and was scrapped.

7/19/2016 10:52:21 AM

I found this to be an ok movie, but in the back of my head I kept thinking to myself "why was this movie necessary?"

8/1/2016 6:51:29 AM

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"It feels to me more like the people who dislike this movie really hate it. Read Roeper's review and a couple others like it. I don't see much middle ground on the movie."

I was meh about it. I laughed a good bit but didn't find the characters to be anything special. The comedic pacing was off (I blame the editing more than the acting), and it had WAY too many references to the original to act like this was supposed to be a stand-alone story. The guys at redlettermedia pointed out how well Star Wars did with handing off the baton and this could have easily been the same (especially since most of the original cast was in it anyway).



[Edited on August 8, 2016 at 4:55 PM. Reason : -]

8/8/2016 4:29:14 PM

ok that made me laugh

8/8/2016 4:31:05 PM

Well. I tried.

I removed my misconceptions and assumptions. I tried to watch it ignoring the other two GBs.

I made it about 27 minutes into this movie before I had to stop watching it. It is absolutely awful. Atrocious. The dialogue sucks. The script is terrible. The scenes cut way too quickly from one to the next leaving absolutely no natural progression. The jokes are pretty shitty and in some cases, I know of at least one, were entirely ripped from other movies, including Bridesmaids.

It was actually worse than I thought it would be before I forced myself to view ignoring the other two.

Keeping in mind I only made it 27 minutes in, cast-wise, the only person I really had a problem with was Leslie Jones, but I actually think she may have been forced to be as shitty as she was based on how she was instructed by the director as well as the type of character written for her.

The cameos (I went ahead and watched them all on YouTube) were reprehensible.

Just awful. Awful movie.

8/9/2016 8:17:32 PM

I did feel like the cameos from the first movies took away from this movie.

For this movie to stand on its own, they should have never included the original cast members. Either that, or there should have been some kind of handing of the torch from the old crew to the new crew.

8/9/2016 10:55:15 PM

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"I removed my misconceptions and assumptions"

Sure. Cause that's a thing people can do. Where's that button at?

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"the only person I really had a problem with was Leslie Jones"

Surprise surprise.

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"and in some cases [and by some, I mean one]"

[Edited on August 9, 2016 at 11:16 PM. Reason : V congrats. i'm sure it was touch and go there for a while.]

8/9/2016 11:07:13 PM

saw it tonight

thoroughly enjoyed it

amazingly enough, my childhood was not ruined

8/9/2016 11:10:58 PM

Apparently headed for a huge($70+ million) loss at box office, so we won't be getting a Ghostbusters 4 haha.

8/10/2016 11:11:20 AM

^^^

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"Sure. Cause that's a thing people can do. Where's that button at?"

It's called compartmentalization?

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"Surprise surprise. "

?

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"[and by some, I mean one]"

?

8/10/2016 11:22:05 AM

IBT "We're all sexist assholes because we didn't go see this"

8/10/2016 11:35:02 AM

I'm racist (or sexist, or i'm just body-shaming) because I find Leslie Jones loud and annoying and not very funny

Same goes for Melissa McCarthy. But I do like Wiig, and really like McKinnon (so i guess i'm body-shaming)

[Edited on August 10, 2016 at 12:15 PM. Reason : ]

8/10/2016 12:12:23 PM

I enjoyed McCarthy's cameo in This Is 40.

8/10/2016 1:05:27 PM

[Edited on August 10, 2016 at 1:17 PM. Reason : set em up]

8/10/2016 1:16:43 PM