Ghostbusters reboot

[imposs1904]

Pretty sure it isn't the trailer which has caused the controversy.

The trailer was pretty shit, though, which didn't help matters.

 

[Ranbay]

Just back now, wasy better than i thought it would be.

 

[Idris2002]

 

[DotCommunist]

the great thing about Fury Road was how both leads said next to fuck all, it was all in what they did and the looks on faces. Scowls featured, but so did a air of bored intensity as the mechanically went ultraviolent

 

[mwgdrwg]

Not bad for 20 minutes, then it turns into a steaming pile og horseshit. Absolutely awful film

 

[strung out]

Incorrect

 

[mwgdrwg]

Fuck no, absolutely awful. Badly written, badly edited, unfunny. Cheap and small looking at times. Makes the original look like high art.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Fuck no, absolutely awful. Badly written, badly edited, unfunny. Cheap and small looking at times. Makes the original look like high art.

mad max or ghostbusters?

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

In my case I though the new ghost busters was kinda mediocre but i fucking loved fury road.

 

[mwgdrwg]

In my case I though the new ghost busters was kinda mediocre but i fucking loved fury road.

Fury Road is a superb film

 

[mwgdrwg]

mad max or ghostbusters?

Ghostbusters.

I loved every second of Fury Road at the cinema, and it's a blast on the small screen too.

 

[mwgdrwg]

The product placement was awful too, Victorinox even wangled theirs into the plot. Papa John's pizza and a few others too.

 

[DotCommunist]

papa johns is good pizza

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Not often I can't be arsed to finish a film, especially when I've had a couple of glasses of wine and my tolerance is high. Even though I wasn't tired and had nothing else to do I switched this off and went to bed. Making this film as a standalone was hugely misguided, watching the knowing cameos was painful. A passing of the torch would have been far more interesting a la star wars, (even if the cameos had similar jobs and as much input) but now they've killed it. Embarrassing film. Bets bit was Mike Hat, and that stuck out as like a sore thumb because it was so odd.

 

[maomao]

That was crap. Kate McKinnon was terrible and played the whole thing like it was a Ghostbusters parody sketch on SNL or something. The other 3 were okay but the material was too weak. Neither plot nor jokes were strong enough to carry it. Barely worth the effort of downloading, I'd be pissed off if I'd paid to see it.

 

[5t3IIa]

I thought I'd be sad that I didn't like it/it was rubbish but I don't even care. I did watch a v crap cam copy though so might invest some time and bandwidth in a decent one and give it another go but blah.

 

[D'wards]

I thought it was okay, watchable but forgetable.

In a way, cos of all the bollocks surrounding it, it was hard to have an impartial opinion.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I was expecting there to be some jokes in it. There aren't any jokes in it. People say and do things that seem like they're supposed to be funny, but aren't.

Maybe it's a deliberate commentary on the hollow subjectivity and banal cultural norms underlying what we call humour. Or maybe someone wrote the script in their lunchbreak.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I just finished watching this and it was funny and touching and well written and genuinely lovely. Action bits the weakest bits but they were good enough. And Kate McKinnon is fab in it, even in a very strong foursome of terrific leads.

 

[mwgdrwg]

I just finished watching this and it was funny and touching and well written and genuinely lovely. Action bits the weakest bits but they were good enough. And Kate McKinnon is fab in it, even in a very strong foursome of terrific leads.

Are you taking the piss? I agree the four are fab with what they're given....which is an absolute turd of a movie. Well written ffs. Hahaha! Better than any joke in the actual film.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Are you taking the piss? I agree the four are fab with what they're given....which is an absolute turd of a movie. Well written ffs. Hahaha! Better than any joke in the actual film.

No, I'm not taking the piss. Genuinely really liked it. Why would I bump an old thread simply to be insincere?

 

[Jon-of-arc]

Are you taking the piss? I agree the four are fab with what they're given....which is an absolute turd of a movie. Well written ffs. Hahaha! Better than any joke in the actual film.

Part of the problem, apparently, was that there was so little actual scripting done. Judd Apatow has created this trend for ad-libs in almost all big Hollywood comedies. Which works great for 40 year old virgin or bridesmaids, but when a movie is an action ghost story first and a comedy second, surely a tight script is actually called for?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Mike Hat's died.

 

[WWWeed]

Could this actually be decent?


Currently it is down for a 10th July 2020 UK release date.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Stranger busters

 

[Reno]

As someone who's never been a fan of the Ghostbusters films, this trailer makes it look like something I may actually want to watch.

 

[Yossarian]

That does look a lot better than anything I was expected.

Feels a little weird seeing the events of the 1984 Ghostbusters treated like something from a distant, dimly remembered past, but I guess it makes sense, since 1984 is as distant from the present day as that year was from 1949.

 

[Cid]

That does look a lot better than anything I was expected.

Feels a little weird seeing the events of the 1984 Ghostbusters treated like something from a distant, dimly remembered past, but I guess it makes sense, since 1984 is as distant from the present day as that year was from 1949.

Fuck. We're now more distant from 1984 than the release of Stand by Me was from 1959. 7 years more distant.

 

[Cid]

This does look a hell of a lot more promising than the reboot. Coming of age stuff is timeless really... And the elements of 80s nostalgia should play well a) with adults and b) with kids who've (I suspect this comparison will keep cropping up) grown up with Stranger Things.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

That does look a lot better than anything I was expected.

Feels a little weird seeing the events of the 1984 Ghostbusters treated like something from a distant, dimly remembered past, but I guess it makes sense, since 1984 is as distant from the present day as that year was from 1949.

When I heard that the "grand kids of the original Ghostbusters make a discovery" . . I thought "why have they set it in the future?" . . . And then I thought "oh".