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I mentioned Spy earlier, which is pretty much McCarthy all the way through with support from various others. If you get the DVD the disc itself sports a picture of…Jude Law and Jason Statham, neither of which are onscreen for about two-thirds of the film. Nice.
She’s also six foot one. You can certainly make a joke out of someone using the race card like this and have it work, but the problem is that Paul Feig isn’t joking. It’s not funny for him to have a character jump to the conclusion that everyone’s racist when they just don’t want to get jumped on by a former basketballer, because he has been calling everyone sexist for not laughing at his shitty comedy for months.
No, it might not, because I won’t watch it. I bought Mad Max: Fury Road on DVD despite hating the bittersweet endings to the previous films (Fury Road has a much better ending). I watched Deadpool despite one reviewer playing up part of the R rating which is of negative interest to me (it was in fact much more subtle and thematically appropriate than he implied). I won’t pay for a movie that promises me nothing I want to see.
On the plus side: that new trailer is much, much better than the first. The Ghostbusters being shoved into the deep end was funny, the ectoplasmic vomit bit worked a lot better without the followup, Patty playing the race card still sucked, and the part with the dragon perched on Patty’s shoulders was funny again.
Like others said, it looks mediocre. Not “worst ever” but nothing that people will be remembering fondly thirty years from now. Just more middling humor that’s sort of adequate for passing time.
That it’s getting judged by a higher standard for riding the original’s coattails is just a consequence of the decision to reboot the concept. If you’re going to use a beloved film as your springboard, you should do better than “mediocre”.
A while back, I read the spoiler posted by the Reddit user who claimed to have worked on the film. I was on the fence because false spoilers get posted all the time on the internet. The first trailer showed that some specific points and scenes listed in the spoiler were true.
This second trailer, though, confirms nearly every other plot point or joke listed in that spoiler post. It sounded cringe-worthy on paper and appears even more so on film. What the actual fuck could have possessed Sony and Feig to make this abomination? Ugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ0YexsRCPc...Bill Murray is honest about the new Ghostbusters as the originals meet the new crew on Jimmy Fallon. I'm one of the few looking forward to it!
I’m GOING to see this movie now.
Even if it’s bad, it will still be interesting to see, but I’m keeping an open mind.
As I stated before, there looks to be more action than ever, and the gadgets are cool. I’m sure it will be humorous to some extent.
I’m in.
You mean Jimmy Kimmel.
Unfortunately. Dude lost me when he had a video title actually spoil Star Wars 7 (about Hans Solo). You can avoid watching clips, but you can’t not read a title when it pops up on YouTube. Only big TV channel I’ve had to actually block on YouTube.
I was at the big gaming store in our area yesterday with my 4-year-old. I let him buy one of the new Ghostbusters sets, with Melissa McCarthy’s character, Slimer, and some other ghost. There’s been a lot of eye-rolling about people bitching that the new movie ruins their childhood memories somehow, but as far as his childhood goes, it’ll just be part of the tapestry. It won’t be the only Ghostbusters of his childhood, but he’ll sentimentalize it when he gets older.
I was completely indifferent to the idea of this film until the studio decided on the asinine idea to polish their turd by deflecting genuinely constructive criticism and painting every critic with a negative viewpoint as “sexist”. Paul Feig is a dipshit who should have simply said “no” when asked about directing this film. It would be beyond most directors to improve on the original.
Already you’ve alienated 50% of your audience, who will be content to let their wives watch this one alone or take the kids instead. How is that smart?
Melissa McCarthy is a talented comedic actress–but having her character rip off a Chris Farley line from “Tommy Boy” is not the way to go.
Bumping because, as of today, it apparently lists Zach Woods first; and Ben Harris gets credited before Melissa McCarthy does; and Karan Soni before Kate McKinnon; and all of 'em before Chris Hemsworth, who beats out Andy Garcia as the mayor.
I’m guessing that’s the order they appear in the film?
Here is an early review. Guy seems to be reasonable to me, though I am not familiar with him. He’s not a hater or a fanboy.
We’ll see if his reactions vibe with the rest of us.
I watched that whole video, Mahaloth; that guy is fairly eloquent and fairly upset. His emotions are so evidently bubbling through that it lends a lot of sincerity and weight to his words. He’s clearly upset at how bad this movie is.
LOL! That good to see I am not the only one that feel this way about there being all women Ghostbusters . There should had been at least one man in team .
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[Spoiler] Second Spoiler: Winter coats, sporting goods, and credit card accounting.
[Spoiler]Third Spoiler: Yes, there should have been a man on the team, but since there wasn’t it helps their cheesy end scene “aim” of all four of them crossing their streams and shooting the Main Ghost in the balls to save the day.
woo-hoo. girl power. men suck. woo-hoo. less energy than bored actresses flapping their arms on a green screen because that’s martial arts. 
“I’m Not A Buyin’ No Tix…!”
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I’m going to see it as I think Leslie Jones is funny as fuck.
Please don’t try to pretend like you speak for your entire gender. You don’t. Not even remotely close.
I’ll definitely catch it on DVD unless the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes are sub 15% positive. I am not a ghostbusters fanboy. I just want a funny movie.
Loved Spy.
I don’t care about the gender of the cast, or the actors, I just dislike Paul Feig, and wish it was a sequel not a reboot.
Reviews are mixed-to-positive, it seems, which is better than I expected, and will probably be enough for a sequel if audiences follow through with the same reaction.