The trailers look absolutely IDIOTIC and I think it’s ludicrous they had to pander to making things all “fair” for the ladies with the female cast. GIVE ME A BREAK!
So a mostly-female cast is pandering, and a mostly-male cast is…what, exactly?
I suggest that you don’t watch the movie.
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A friend of mine just saw it in Ireland and quite enjoyed it. I’ll be going this weekend myself.
Isn’t it playing at any local theaters?
Hadn’t really paid attention to the film, but I walked by a movie poster the other day noticed the other day the look for the Egon character is obviously based on the look of the character in the cartoon, which I thought was kinda cool.
Normal, of course. 
I believe it’s opening in the US this weekend. And the reviews I read said it’s really funny, so I’ll probably see it.
BTW, I think the studio wants to establish yet another franchise, like the Marvel movies or the Harry Potter films. So if this one does OK, expect to see several more.
You don’t understand. They should have been casting people not women.
First trailer looked pretty bad, the second was a lot better and it seems to be reviewing well and getting a lot of praise for it’s 3D effects.
I hadn’t planned on seeing the film but the OP has inspired me to go and help the film succeed - if it does it will cause a good deal of tears to flow from whiny man-children everywhere, and that is reason enough.
It can’t be worse than GB 2 so there is that.
Honestly, the original Ghostbusters looked pretty lame at first glance, too. You don’t have to watch it if you don’t want to, but the worst that can happen is you won’t like it.
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Women aren’t nearly as scary as they seem, once you start talking to them.
But, if an all-female Ghostbusters is a success then the next thing you know we’ll have a Star Wars film in which the main characters are a black guy and a woman and there will be no way back!!! :eek::eek::eek:
One thing for sure. They sure screwed up the theme song.
Actually, the trailer for the 1984 Ghostbusters is about as amusing as soggy corn flakes. Bill Murray looks like he’s too bored to emote rather than appearing in one of the defining roles of his illustrious career. Dan Aykroyd is the funniest thing in this trailer, and for fuck’s sake, Dan Aykroyd is not and has never been funny.
Trailers are made by marketing teams that often have little knowledge, investment, or even basic interest in the film, hence why many trailers either give away critical plot points or give an entirely incorrect sense of the film they are supposed to be portraying.
Not people…Kate Fricken’ McKinnon. Never mind Melissa McCarthy or Kristen Wiig; you should go see this film just to see whatever bizarre improvisational thing she decides to do. It might suck, and it certainly isn’t going to be particularly original, but the reflexive, “OMG they remade this classic film with chicks because…Obama!” or whatever is kind of an absurd kneejerk, even by the normal standards of Internet misogyny.
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Murray didn’t want to make Ghostbusters. But he was trying to get The Razor’s Edge made (a movie he wrote and in which he would play his first non-comedic role). So the studio made a deal with him that they would finance The Razor’s Edge if he would do Ghostbusters first.
I thought Mike Stoklosa from Red Letter Media gave a pretty well thought out analysis of his expectations for the new movie in their re-review of the old Ghostbusters today:
They basically say that the old Ghostbusters was silly and funny, but it worked in a way where the joke was kind of that the Ghostbusters were goofy and funny, but everything happening them around them was very serious. A kind of dry comedy. They describe it as "vehicle so Bill Murray can tell us what he really thinks about things." The film being successful is kind of a happy accident, it was a film that had no reason to be good, and nobody really seemed to know what movie they were making, but putting a few great comedians together just kind of... worked somehow.They do mention that any attempt to recreate the movie just by trying to mirror this selection and bringing in, say, Seth Rogan, Jack Black, or whatever big comedy stars you can think of, would’ve likely been soulless and disastrous, so at least the all-female cast gives them an angle to work with. Despite that, they’re concerned that it’s going way too far into the slapstick and silly side, and losing that dry charm where the Ghostbusters were crazy and the world and threats, bar a few exceptions, was serious (if paranormal).
I’ll catch it on DVD. I wish they hadn’t just called it “Ghostbusters”. It should have had a subtitle.