Posted on 07/10/2016 7:45:19 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
What I watched for the next two hours was mostly a tragic underutilizing of four of this country's funniest women — Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, and Kate McKinnon as the evil-ectoplasm battlers of the title, fighting to save a New York that is played primarily by Boston — combined with what felt like the world's longest laser-tag game.
the main performers rarely get to display their individual idiosyncratic strengths. It's particularly dispiriting to hear McCarthy, one of the most floridly gifted verbal riffers in comedy, have to utter frat-brah catchphrases like "Let's do this."
That kind of lifeless, recycled language sounds even worse when Wiig, another performer who has perfected how to do things with words, cries out, "Say hello to my little friend" before zapping a spook in the film's near-interminable final act, a glut of green beams that suggests nothing more than an f/x trade show. (Look how much technology has advanced since 1984!)
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How do you produce a re-make with a completely different plot? The story Feig is telling just doesn’t make sense.
I did, and you are spot on. This was never going to be any kind of sequel once Reitman was taken off of the project. Feig owns this turkey. There’s talk that at the film bombs catastrophically Sony will sell off the studio.
Remakes are in fact so rampant because for the next generation the original is obliterated and usurped by the newer, glitzier remake. Without good direction children are always programmed to seek out the new and flush the old. Directors are intentionally chosen for their loathing of the original work. The result turns the spirit of the original on its head, as intended. The remake of The Wicker Man is a case in point. That director loathed Paul Giovanni’s soundtrack to the film, among other things. In short, it is systematic communist degredation of art, which becomes anti-art.
I saw that person in a commercial and thought for sure that it was a man.
She is hawking car insurance, a noble pursuit if ever there was one. Her voice is almost as deep as the allstate guy’s. She is gettin that money while she can, what a role model.
It’s very unsettling.
I bet they wrote out of the script the main villain, the EPA inspector.
When the pinnacle of cultural expression is a remake of Ghostbusters, it’s time to just tear it all down and start over.
Melissa Anderson could be Kristen Wiig twin sister.
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#44 True Grit remake with mumbling Jeff Bridges
John Wayne is the only one for that part.
I loved Arthur with Dudley Moore. I year the remake was so awful it isn’t spoken of in polite society. No, remakes rarely make the grade.
Leslie Jones looks like some kind of beast.
I recently saw her in a TV commercial and she grossed me out.
No way would I watch this bomb even for free.
But Sony Pictures had to do it as a remake, and not a good one at that, either.
Why did they choose this woman?
Alien was awesome — but this was not “push the women forward at the expense of guys”
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