Ghostbusters (2016)

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Anyone else excited about this? The trailer made me laugh out loud at various bits :LOL:


It's got lots of fanboys of the original films mad as hell - some of them even set up multiple YouTube accounts to downvote it multiple times because of the all-female cast!

To me, however, it looks like summer movie fun and keeps to the spirit of the original. It's something I can take my niece to watch.

Plus: Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, and Sigourney Weaver will be making cameos.

Summer fun here we come! :D
 
A trailer for this was released yesterday. I watched it and didn't think much; thought it was something I might watch on DVD at some time. Apparently, others got much more worked up about it. It has four women characters rather than the original three men. Lots of women thought this was a victory for feminism. Lots of men thought it was a mistake. That was just in the morning. Before lunchtime the film was racist since the only black female is a subway attendant, while the three white women are scientists at the top of their fields. I have to admit, the subway attendant does seem like she was added into the story to make some kind of quota, but didn't the original film have a female secretary who might parallel that role - I forget now - it was 30 years ago and it was never a huge favourite of mine. However, it worked because of the cast, all established comedy actors already. I can't say that I've heard of this new cast and it looks like a reboot/remake and a little too retro, rather than a sequel or anything original. Anyway, if you believe that all publicity, however bad, is good publicity then Ghostbusters has had plenty. Unfortunately, they released it on the same week as Super Tuesday and everyone seems to be talking about the size of Donald Trump's er... hands instead.

 
Dave said:
It has four women characters rather than the original three men.
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The original Ghostbusters was also a team of 4 - 3 white men and 1 black man.

The new team also formed in the same pattern: the 3 white characters came together first, then the black character joined them later to round up the team.
 
Good grief! Fans get in a tizzy about such strange things.

How true to the original could this new offering be, considering that Harold Ramis has died and the remaining stars have aged so much their headquarters would need to be in a retirement community? :)

It's a great idea to immediately switch things up by changing the gender of the main characters, regardless of their ethnicity or the order in which they join the squad.
 
I saw the trailer and didn't like it .
 
Yeah, I held off judgement until the trailer came out. It looks like Bridesmaids with Ghosts, it will probably be okay but I'd have been more interested in seeing a third sequel twenty years ago or even the three remaining GBs chasing down a spook in an old peoples home ala Buba Ho Tep, which now I've typed that - I will be slotting that into my player at some point this week. Is anyone else confused whether it's in the same universe as the last two films? The text says 30 years ago... but the characters didn't reference it.

Brave move on Feigs part to cast Leslie Jones as the working class one this time round with all the white gals as scientists. I'm surprised that's not kicked off given the Oscars fiasco (not that I see this getting a nomination).
 
It doesn't appeal to me at all.

I must confess that i am a little bemused about sexual politics that seems to be following this movie. IE, you don't like the movie because you're sexist.
 
Rodders said:
It doesn't appeal to me at all.

I must confess that i am a little bemused about sexual politics that seems to be following this movie. IE, you don't like the movie because you're sexist.
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Have you read the comments underneath the trailer on YouTube? Plenty of evidence there of sexism being spewed because the 4 new ghostbusters are women.

If you (not you but the general "you") don't like the look of the movie because you don't find it funny (i.e. the type of slapstick humour doesn't appeal) or you don't like the direction the story looks like it's going in or you don't like that Leslie Jones' character appears to be the stereotype of the street smart Black person, then fair enough. Just don't watch it.

But the majority of the ongoing vitriol are about "feminazis" (and similar comments like "That black actress looks like a freaking gorilla!" and "Feminists say rape is bad. But they raped our souls with this trailer" - yes, these are actual comments that I cut and pasted here from the comments section under the YouTube video), the juvenile jabs about women not being funny, and proud declarations of creating multiple YouTube accounts just to give it multiple thumbs downs by male YouTube users who then declare that anyone calling them out on their sexist behaviour has no sense of humour?

No. Just, no.
 
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Hmm. I'm torn over this; I think it's odd that they are "rebooting" the franchise in exactly the same way as the original film; ie the original three scientists joined by the fourth, black member; they get hold of a car that looks exactly like the original Ecto-1; the story seems to be very similar; the ghost in the library is the same as the original.

Is it just me or does this just smack of typically lazy Hollywood screenwriting? By simply (and in the case of one scene, literally) regurgitating the tropes and icons from the original film (car, library scene, cast formula, setting, Slimer etc etc) it will draw unfavourable comparisons to the original. My prediction is it'll go down as a missed opportunity to take the series in a thoroughly fresh, different direction.

On the other hand, Melissa McCarthy's always good for a laugh.
 
The Bluestocking said:
But the majority of the ongoing vitriol are about "feminazis" (and similar comments like "That black actress looks like a freaking gorilla!" and "Feminists say rape is bad. But they raped our souls with this trailer"
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Sigh. Raped our souls... Seriously, it's a movie and not even a serious movie. Unless Feig is sewing some secret Zeitgeist into it's celluloid fabric...

No one sets out to make a bad movie, period. These juvenile jabs - which you should coin btw - are exactly that. They aren't comments, there's not enough of the film on show to form a reasonable argument against at the moment so the haters are attacking the only thing they can. The women.

I wouldn't say the screen-writing is lazy, though it's a good point to make. Hollywood does appear lazy, it's definitely stagnating like it did at the end of the sixties and early seventies. The kids of the eighties and nineties are now in the producer seats and looking to make money and wanting to bring back the love for film they had as children (this is my hope anyway), the problem is no one knows what's going to be a success.

Feig loves working with Melissa McCarthy, I can't believe he set out to ruin Ghostbusters. I can get behind the idea he sees this backlash as free marketing, but he certainly didn't change it for the sake of changing it. I think a lot of the humour will be from the fact they've swapped genders, which has worked for them in the past.

I also read that McCarthy's original part was that of Leslie Jones character?
 
Let's be honest here, the comments section of YouTube is not somewhere to look for reasoned criticism or a sane argument, it is mainly unmoderated and the home of people who find the use of childish insults and ad hominem attacks a first resort.
 
The Bluestocking said:
sourpuss "you ruined my childhood" male geeks who are slamming it
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I don't understand the whole "you ruined my childhood" thing. I mean, one can always just go and watch the original, right? Or are all copies of the original going to be disappeared from history from July 15th? The mind boggles.
 
I'm more offended that Megan Fox plays April O'neil in the Ninja Turtles than a reboot of Ghostbusters with a woman cast. DG said lazy hollywood screenwriting, and I couldn't agree more though. It seems all I see out there are remakes, reboots, and sequels...then the radio just has remakes of old songs...Books seems to be the only thing where I can get something original. Long live books!

But in all seriousness of this movie, I will watch it, and will probably enjoy it. McCarthy is hilarious, and if you haven't seen Spy, watch it...one of the best movies I've seen in a while.
 
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