Even a Village Voice liberal hates it.
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!)
(Excerpt) Read more at villagevoice.com ...
I do know one thing. I always thought Whoopi Goldberg, was the ugliest woman in the US. Well, Leslie Jones, now has top honors.
As my late father would say, “Son, I could place her out in my cornfield and she would have crows bringing back corn, they had stole three years ago.”
Even a Village Voice liberal hates it.
I see the problem right away. The first three films are raunchy, 'R'-rated comedies. Admittedly, I laughed my ass off throughout all three of them. Ghostbusters could never have been a raunchy, 'R'-rated comedy. Feig was probably the wrong guy at the helm to try to dial it back.
I’m waiting for the “Hitler reacts to the new Ghostbusters” YouTube video.
I am getting tired of being told that if you are not thrilled about the Ghostbusters remake you must be a misogynist.
Most remakes are not any improvement on the original. The fact that someone is doing a remake at all is usually a clear indication of lack of creativity. The worst remakes are gimmicky remakes such as this where they recast rolls with different sexes or races. That is not creativity, that is a formula.
I fully expect that someday some idiot will remake Gone With The Wind with Rhett and Scarlett recast as black and gay.
The guy from Wreckless Eating basically said the movie is completely anti-male and sucks to high heaven.
I don’t mean to pick on people for their looks, but Good Heavens, did they send out a request for the tallest, most masculine, boorish, Moochelle-attitude double in the land?
I actually wondered if she was transgendered.
Apart from that, it’s amazing how seriously this movie is being taken. I suppose expectations were sky high.
Your dads remarks about the scared crows made me laugh.
Remake was unnecessary, we already know the story. Sould have been a totally different movie based on the concept. No reason to go see it.
ouch , that’s going to leave a mark
Uhhhh. No. The film started off with Ivan Reitman (the original director of the first Ghostbusters) producing and directing. Amy Pascal, a flaming feminist whose incompetence was laid bare by the Sony email hacks, disagreed with Reitman’s vision of the film (an ensemble cast that was handed the reigns by the surviving members of the original film [Murray and Acroyd] in a movie intended to be a sequel). She had Reitman removed and Feig brought in, with the understanding that the film would be a reboot, not a sequel, and that the cast would change to an all female one. Feig was an enthusiastic supporter of this change! He may have been saddled with an inferior script, but he has been front and center in portraying the criticism of the film as misogyny from “Trump-supporters.” Feig and Pascal are the prime movers of this flop! Read the hacked Sony emails...
I saw her for the first time in a commercial. I had to do a google search. I don’t watch “Saturday Night Live”. You are correct, I also thought it was transgendered.
The early reviews are all screaming “stinker!”, for a multitude of reasons. The only upside is the hilarious Chris Pratt, who gets just enough screen time to break through the gloom, but no more.
To start with, the movie is extremely misandric, full of hatred and bile towards men. All the men within are depicted as “a-holes” with Pratt just being “the stupid one”. Even the great monster is a male, and they destroy it by all firing their weapons at its crotch.
The movie is also racist, turning the usually well spoken black comedienne Leslie Jones, into a gross, ignorant, stereotypical Hollywood caricature of a black woman.
The movie also breaks with Ghostbusters canon a lot, violating many of the “rules” of the franchise.
The trailers were terrible, the theme music just stunk on ice, the special effects were mediocre at best and unconvincing at worst. Even the poster was bad, looking like something from a horror movie.
http://i.imgur.com/CcrvBMW.jpg
But the best part was that, when criticized, everyone involved, from SONY, the director, the actresses, etc., came out to *insult* the critics as misogynistic and hateful. This is not effective “damage control”.
The budget for this nightmare is officially $154 million.
Release date is July 15, 2016. Be sure to watch this Hindenburg crash and burn.
Ach, du lieber Gott!
“Release date is July 15, 2016. Be sure to watch this Hindenburg crash and burn.”
We can make smores! I actually hope the film bombs.
The only thing more vapid than the trailers I have seen is this review. It is absolutely vapid.
Busted flat? Not in Baton Rouge? Probably needed some Ghost Bustiers! /rimshot
Because of the info at the attached links, I won't see it under any circumstances that require me to pay for it, period. But it would be hilarious if Teflon Don went to see it, and Tweeted, "saw GB, loved it, great performances".
Yep—I decided not to go after I was called a sexist for questioning why a remake was even necessary.
Marketing 101—It will not end well for your product if you preemptively piss-off your target market.
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