Posted on 06/02/2016 7:51:28 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Judd Apatow (“Trainwreck”) defended his “Freaks and Geeks” collaborator Paul Feig on his “Ghostbusters” film, comparing the haters — who disagree with the all-female cast — to Donald Trump supporters.
Apatow told Uproxx in an interview, “I would assume there’s a very large crossover of people who are doubtful Ghostbusters will be great and people excited about the Donald Trump candidacy. I would assume they are the exact same people.”
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Ryan just wants Trump to kiss the ring and tell him he can play with the big boys after november. It’s so transparent. Judicial nominees do the same. They go up the hill and suck their way down the hallway.
Ryan lost all creed the first 30 days as leader and he still thinks he’s important and will be president someday.
?? I think you meant to post this comment on another thread ??
With respect to Marvel (for example Thor), the OP (the Ghostbusters idiocy), and a lot of other franchises, you are correct.
With respect to Star Wars, they are actually drawing off of long term “cannon” stories that go back quite a while. As in back to the 70’s and 80’s.
I do not think that is about being PC. It is about trying to condense a ton of cannon into a movie or movies.
JMHO, of course.
PS I do have to say that Marvel scored with Scarlet Johanson as Black Widow. Dang but she spent a lot of time learning marshal arts and it shows. She actually may be able to kick six guy’s ####s!
Maybe they just have sequel and remake fatigue, especially when a giant dose of political correctness gets shat all over the production to boot? Nah, couldn’t be.
Just looked at the trailer on YouTube - it has 246,733 thumbs up votes compared to 857,651 thumbs down votes. So apparently, per this commentator, Trump will be getting 77% of the vote.
LOL, maybe, maybe not. Getting another beer.
The last movie I saw at a theater was “True Lies”. in 1994. My Daughter took me to see it. I thought it was pretty good but not so good as to want to see it again.
Now the original Star Wars was really fun. My wife’s Brother took me and assured me that it was great. He was right.
What if Russ Meyer came back and made an all-male Super Vixens movie?
wow, “True Lies” ... that was another century and another era
back in my mis-spent youth.....
Dr. Mustaine,
Ep 7 is a fun ride. The characters are interesting once more. It wasn’t a North Korean prison camp torture flick that the prequels were. People criticise Ep. 7 for lifting aspects of Ep. 4 ... they’re right for the most part, but the new lead characters more than make up for it. They needed more fun and action vs depth for this one seeing that the prequels pretty much made star wars a bit toxic.
If you ever get bored and need to forget about life for two hours , check it out. It’s worth it. I love Star Wars and had a gigantic smile on my face walking out of the theater at 5am since that was the only time I could get on opening day (in iMax 3d).
As for this Ghostbusters nonsense, almost all the liberals I know went from having it to loving it overnight. They must have gotten their orders. They’re definitely making this crapbomb about Hillary. I have a feeling it was produced in North Korean prison camp 66 ... home of any other destroyed franchises wrecked for political purposes.
I saw the Commercial for the Movie on SNL a few weeks ago.
The big loud mouthed Black Gal from SNL is in the Movie so I thought it was an SNL Parody skit, not a Commercial for the actual Movie.
I will never get those precious seconds back. It looks beyond awful.
Not anymore. If a film doesn’t do well in it’s first week it is out the door. Too many other venues to sell it to.
Rentals, cable, tv, Netflix.
Is this suppose to be a strike against them?
If by that, he means that Trump supporters are probably wiser and have better things to do with their time than to want to see a lesbian, politically correct, unfunny retread of a classic comedy film, yeah, he could be right.
CAMERA FADES IN ON LATE NIGHT SHOTS OF NYC. VOICE OF DAN AKROYD: “Oh, yeah, sure. When the Big Rift closed, back in 1989, the PKE level in in the city went to ZERO. Stone cold dead. Those spooks that blew out of containment, and all the slime, sucked right back into the Otherworld. We did the talk shows. Egon went back to teaching, I went back to the bookstore. We figured we’d never be needed again.”
(FADE HEARTBEAT IN AND UNDER.)
“But this? Something is waking up. Something old, older than time. We aren’t ‘running around in the streets’ kinda guys anymore.”
(TIGHT SHOT OF AN OLD OAK DESK IN A FIRESTATION, COVERED WITH OLD NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS FROM THE 80’s. WITH A WEIGHTY CLANK, A PROTON PACK LANDS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OLD NEWSPAPERS. HEARTBEAT LOUDER AND FASTER.)
“That’s where you guys come in.”
If you are old enough to remember New Coke, the “new” Ghostbusters appears to be a nice, big, tall glass of it: mass produced commercial product, put together by ad execs and Big Business and fed to you because You Need To Buy This, no matter what you think.
The “willing suspension of disbelief” is a gossamer thin thing. The thing that made Star Wars is that the story and the depiction of the universe it is in was so…immersive…that you forget you are watching a movie. Further, the story was so new, so different from anything that went before that you were mesmerized by the movie. You WERE in a time long ago, in a galaxy far away.
The ONLY thing I can think of when I see the trailers for the “new” Ghostbusters is NOT “Wow, women aren’t funny” (which is what all critics of the film will be dismissed and attacked with.) The ONLY think I can think of is “This is a movie, intentionally replacing something I love, and every second I see of it, I am reminded that no matter how spectacular the effects are…I am watching a movie.” For me, it is like watching a remake of Casablanca, but with Jim Carry and Madonna. It is like a tiny imp has been put on my shoulder, and is charged with flicking my ear every few seconds and repeating “Movie. Movie. Movie.”
If they had made it four women who were the NEW Ghostbusters…if the exact same characters, and plot, and effects were actually set in the same universe, with a nod of baton-passing from the remaining Old Guys, I could get behind this. That would place it in a fictional package where I could forget it was a remade movie, and immerse in it. But it’s like I ordered pizza in a pizza restaurant and they brought me a waffle…and then insisted on calling it pizza and looked at me like they expected me to pretend too. And then called me bad names for expecting pizza.
The trailers look slickly produced. The effects are amazing. I really laughed at the idiots in the crowd being terrorized by ghosts, who stood there and took selfies with them. I also chuckled at the few recognizable lines that connected with the old movie (the one they are busy ignoring existed.) And with every clever slightly-reworked line…I am again reminded that this pizza is really a waffle. I LIKE waffles. And pizza. But they aren’t the same thing, and being told they are leaves me missing the taste of both.
So yes, women can be funny, and these probably are. But that’s not the issue. A lot of people expected their favorite pizza, enhanced by cheese in the crust. It looks like we got really nice waffles, with New Coke on the side. And when we complain to the management, we are just being dismissed as troublemakers, rather than the people who can just stay home and watch the DVD of the original. And eat pizza, which is what we wanted to buy in the first place.
Hating on the audience doesn’t make them pay to see it.
I saw the trailer. It is painfully unfunny for what is supposed to be a comedy.
Tell me about it!
As an amateur writer, I'm pretty sure a story reflecting my religious, philosophical, and/or political views would be a big bar to entry. (After all, look at the mess that is going on with the Hugo awards.)
A good horror comedy to watch instead - Idiocracy.
Bet unlike in the original, the EPA will be portrayed as the good guys.
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