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Re: Female Ghostbusters
« Reply #25 on: June 11, 2015, 04:51:32 PM »
I don't think it's any more feminist than the new Mad Max where Charlize Theron is the lead.

If anything this movie is poking fun at the all female cast by casting Thor as the receptionist.

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Re: Female Ghostbusters
« Reply #26 on: July 16, 2016, 10:58:42 PM »
Saw it. It's good. The pre-release hate was definitely unjustified.

If you're on the fence, I'd say go for it. There's enough genuinely funny material to make it worthwhile. As far as the "all woman" thing, if you hadn't seen the original, you probably wouldn't have thought anything of it. These are four funny characters who all happen to be female. It would've worked just as well if they were all guys.

Mild spoiler dressing

[spoiler]It is a reboot. It's not a 30 year later spin-off. However, these are all new characters. They didn't just cast the original characters as women.

All the major surviving cast from the original (sans Rick Moranis) do make cameos, and they're all hilarious. Again they're all different characters, although they do faintly imply Aykroyd may be Ray. Even Annie Potts has a cameo.

And there is a post-credits stinger[/spoiler]

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Re: Female Ghostbusters
« Reply #27 on: July 16, 2016, 11:42:28 PM »
After the last year of entitled bitching I've heard about this movie, I really hope it winds up printing money.

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Re: Female Ghostbusters
« Reply #28 on: July 17, 2016, 12:00:03 AM »
Boycotting this based on the fact Sony wanted to sue Bill Murray into participating.  And they created fake positive Youtube comments.

  That plus putting up an embargo.. If I knew Batman vs Superman had one up, I might have skipped that on principle, too.  Embargo's that allow no negativity, but lets positive reviews slip through are manipulative..

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Re: Female Ghostbusters
« Reply #29 on: July 17, 2016, 12:22:05 AM »
Saw it. It's good. The pre-release hate was definitely unjustified.


A lot of folks were stirring the pot, though.

When you go after a guy named The Angry Video Game nerd for just giving his nostolgic based opinion, and labeling him a women hating "nobody" for it, you're pretty much trying to pick a fight.

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Re: Female Ghostbusters
« Reply #30 on: July 17, 2016, 12:42:38 AM »
The nostalgia-based opinions are stupid though. "I won't go see it, out of respect for the original." Please. Believing that humans have immortal souls is dumb enough. Believing that movies have them, and that they can be harmed by the imagined infidelity of going to see a different version of the same premise - more than thirty years later - that redefines the concept of "dumb." And I don't see how seeing something worse than the thing you remember can possibly ruin the positive vibe you got from watching the thing you remember. Maybe seeing a better version would do that - but then that just means you're rooting against something being high quality, which seems like a pretty shitty attitude.

People complain that millennials act like entitled children into their adult years. What people fail to notice is that the next older generation has gone the other way - they're acting like old people, bitching about the world that they think used to be set up with them in mind, and now is changing without any regard for them.

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Re: Female Ghostbusters
« Reply #31 on: July 17, 2016, 08:52:17 AM »
Hey, a man's entitled to his opinion.  I knew plenty of people who wouldn't really give Galactica Reimagined a chance, and while I think they missed out I'm not gonna fight about it.

Odds are, people were constantly badgering James about his opinion, and he simply gave it to shut them down.

It was a pretty short segment anyways.  13-15 minutes, maybe?  Not exactly a long, droning rant of some hours many podcasters do.. 
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Re: Female Ghostbusters
« Reply #32 on: July 17, 2016, 12:38:35 PM »
James Rolfe is a massive Ghostbusters fan, so he didn't want to see it just because he saw no point to a remake.

The movie will probably finish 2nd with $45 Million this week and fall off dramatically next week. Any honest review I have read that didn't say stupid shit like "Women are funny, get over it" put the movie at about a C. I'm not ashamed to say I hope it doesn't even make $75 Million due to the ridiculous hateful campaign Sony and the cast and crew put on the world. The trailers were terrible and people hated it because of that, plus they didn't want to see another remake. If the movie was better than the trailers, then fire the person who made them.

Paul Feig and Judd Apatow were insufferable with the marketing of this movie, but Apatow bitching is to be expected at this point in his career.

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Re: Female Ghostbusters
« Reply #33 on: July 17, 2016, 02:46:06 PM »
I agree with Edge


I won't see it because I know I won't find it funny, that doesn't make me a misogynist, and if the only way to promote a movie is to label critics as haters, I say fuck 'em, I hope it flops.

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Re: Female Ghostbusters
« Reply #34 on: July 17, 2016, 05:04:37 PM »
The movie was better than the trailers. Not a homerun, but a solid double into the gap. Worthy of a sequel. It really only suffers by comparison to the original, and it doesn't suffer all that much.

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Re: Female Ghostbusters
« Reply #35 on: July 17, 2016, 09:03:37 PM »
Hey, a man's entitled to his opinion.  I knew plenty of people who wouldn't really give Galactica Reimagined a chance, and while I think they missed out I'm not gonna fight about it.

Odds are, people were constantly badgering James about his opinion, and he simply gave it to shut them down.

It was a pretty short segment anyways.  13-15 minutes, maybe?  Not exactly a long, droning rant of some hours many podcasters do.. 
The reason why I never cared for the Galactica reboot is the changing of original characters. Many of the characters are nothing like the originals. If you're going to completely "reimagine" something from the ground up, you might as well slap new names on it.

It's one of the main reasons why I never had a problem on the surface with this remake. Since it's new characters, there's enough originality to it that it stands on its own.

Plus I legit LOL'd quite a few times.

The movie was better than the trailers. Not a homerun, but a solid double into the gap. Worthy of a sequel. It really only suffers by comparison to the original, and it doesn't suffer all that much.

This is a very fair review. It's good, wouldn't call it great. And I would be interested in watching a sequel.

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Re: Female Ghostbusters
« Reply #36 on: July 17, 2016, 10:40:37 PM »
Word has it now that China won't even show this movie and that is a big, weird market for cinema lately. So, if this movie does stay at around $75 Million and can't make more with stupid China money (World of Warcraft movie made double what Star Wars did), then the studio probably won't greenlight a sequel.

They certainly won't make a ton of money in merchandise, that stuff was being discounted before the movie came out.

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Re: Female Ghostbusters
« Reply #37 on: July 18, 2016, 01:53:29 PM »
The reason why I never cared for the Galactica reboot is the changing of original characters. Many of the characters are nothing like the originals. If you're going to completely "reimagine" something from the ground up, you might as well slap new names on it.


This is a fair request and normally one I feel myself, I think it didn't bother me because the original was such a steaming pile of crap that I passed on the remake until Dorian (I forget his new screen name) talked me into checking it out

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Re: Female Ghostbusters
« Reply #38 on: July 18, 2016, 04:42:32 PM »
Word has it now that China won't even show this movie and that is a big, weird market for cinema lately. So, if this movie does stay at around $75 Million and can't make more with stupid China money (World of Warcraft movie made double what Star Wars did), then the studio probably won't greenlight a sequel.

They certainly won't make a ton of money in merchandise, that stuff was being discounted before the movie came out.

The entertainment/variety pages have been talking about this for the last day.  Supposedly, Sony never even attempted to present this to China's movie system yet.

They do have GB 1 and 2 available, though not popular at all.

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Re: Female Ghostbusters
« Reply #39 on: July 18, 2016, 05:49:44 PM »
Maybe for a place like China, 4 female leads would not play in theaters?

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Re: Female Ghostbusters
« Reply #40 on: July 18, 2016, 09:33:33 PM »
well it didn't make #1 but I'm guessing 46 million isn't considered a disappointment

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Re: Female Ghostbusters
« Reply #41 on: August 03, 2016, 07:46:41 PM »
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UWROBiX1eSc

Less a critique of the movie, as of Sony and the director's underhanded tactics.

Although in their other review, they're not high on the movie, either.  (They're the same guys who tore into the Star Wars prequels like they owed them money, so take their movie criticisms with a grain of salt.  Unless you agree with them.  ;)  )
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