Ok, the 2nd slap was pretty funny.
Trailer wasn’t remotely funny. Would preferred a more serious tone, with a couple of funny bits, rather than just a bunch of lame attempts at humor strung together.
This was actually my impression the very first time I saw it. I loved the movie, but thought he was kind of a creep. When I was older, I saw it again, thinking, Well, I was a kid then, and maybe I just didn’t have a good enough understanding of romantic and sexual interactions to appreciate those scenes.
Nope. Oh, well. Still a good movie.
As for this one? Yeah, definitely not a fan of the whole “I don’t know nothin’ ‘bout [del]birthin’ no babies[/del] science” routine for Leslie Jones, and yes, trailers always spoil too much, but beyond that? This looks like it will be highly entertaining, and I’m more excited to see it now than before.
Once again the Dorknesses are in accord :).
Would it have killed them to have her play essentially the same character, except as a mad scientist? Let her be her irreverent violent out-of-control self, except brilliant. Let one of the white women be the dumb one, if they really need a dumb one.
Who said her character is dumb? It appears that the roles were written specifically for these actresses (albeit mapping relatively closely to the original cast save for the gender reversals) and quite frankly this is the closest to Jones’ comedic persona.
The larger question is why are there so few roles for minority female comediennes, or indeed, relatively few successful comediennes in general, much less non-white ones? I think we know the answer–that studios are fearful of putting anyone who might be objectionable to their key demographic of white males ages 18-49 except in female- and “ethnic”-themed comedies or dramas–hence why celebrated comedic actresses like Wanda Sykes, Tracie Thoms, and Aisha Tyler are relegated to minor supporting roles and voice acting.
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Looks like a homage to me, not necessarily a bad thing. Could be fun. Remains to be seen.
Yes. I can see loving GB, can see hating GB2 and can even see hating both. But hating 1 and loving 2???:eek::dubious::eek:
They have the “Important safety tip” bit and the 'is that a trick question" and a couple others.
“Dumb one” isn’t quite the right term, but the trailer goes out of its way to describe the other three as super-crazy-brilliant… and the black one works for the subway. I’m not all SJW about it, but making the black character the “street smart” one is about the most obvious and avoidable cliche in the setup for this movie, and the fact that they walked right into it doesn’t bode well for the rest of the movie.
I’m also fine that they made them women. And generally, I do find these 4 particular women funny. I just didn’t see anything in the trailer that showed me anything other than a high-tech unfunny remake of a beloved classic that happens to star 4 women.
Basically, I suspect what happened was that they pretty much ran out of ideas after pitching “Ghostbusters meets Bridesmaids”.
The purpose of the trailer is to sell the movie - to give the audience a a story. Not the story of the movie itself, but the story “this is why you should see THIS movie.” Some terrible movies had great trailers, because the makers completely understood that. Unfortunately, when you see a bad trailer, there’s basically two possibilities: either the creators showed a good movie in a bad light, or the movie itself is just not that compelling. Unfortunately, one of those is a lot more likely.
Also, the IMDB page specifically lists five writers. Three of them are the writers on the original Ghostbusters, and credited as “(based on the film “Ghostbusters” written by)”. So the plot on display seems to be the old film with gags stuck in. That is… not really a recipe for success. Let’s hope it turns out to be the smash hit of the year, but the trailer doesn’t sell it.
Interestingly, someone recut the trailer to match this sensibility almost exactly. It’s an improvement, but only because they cut out most of it.
Her lines in the trailer sure come across as ignorant. Is her comedic persona ignorant?
Because if they’d made her loud and impulse-control-challenged, and also a brilliant scientist, that would be an awesome freakin’ character. Make one of the white women the expert on New York, make her a creepy goth ghost fangirl or something, that’d be fine. Or, you know, here’s a completely crazy revolutionary idea, have more than one non-white character!
As Miller said, this is a totally obvious cliche which would have been super-easy to avoid. I’m not saying it’ll ruin the movie, but for fuck’s sake, c’mon, guys, can’t you do better than that?
Hmmm, that seemed very…low energy. Kind of lacked punch or excitement.
Now that’s a much better trailer to get excited about the movie! Unfortunately, I’m afraid there’s a reason the studio trailer isn’t that good.
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It actually reminds me of the original trailer, just without the 80s announcer dude that has to tell us everything. In fact, I could have sworn there was a version of the trailer that was even closer to this one.
They definitely just used the old music, save for the stinger at the end.
Yeah, from the reactions here I was expecting something pretty bad, but this seems like a fairly typical trailer for this type of movie. “Fairly typical” is faint praise, but I’ve certainly seen worse and off the top of my head can’t think of any trailers for similar movies that I’d consider a whole lot better. Maybe people are mentally comparing this trailer to the original movie, but if so that’s hardly fair. And as noted upthread, the trailer for the original movie isn’t so hot.
Unfortunately and unfairly for Ghostbusters, the last trailer I watched online wasn’t for the original Ghostbusters; it was the Suicide Squad trailer, which may be the best trailer ever made, and is for roughly the same sort of movie (supernatural action/comedy). Seeing Ghostbusters trailer trending, I had my hopes way too high.
That’s not unfair. The Suicide Squad trailer is laugh out loud funny AND it has some awesome visuals - I love the shot of the Chinook diving in while dropping flares. If Suicide Squad can do that with a bunch of D-listers while Ghostbusters is leeching off of one of the best comedies ever made and can’t even make me crack a smile, it’s Ghostbusters’ own fault.
And no, it’s not because it’s an all-female team. If and when the executive producer of Dredd gets his “female Expendables” movie made, I expect it to be awesome. This is not awesome.
Looks like Chris Hemsworth is filling the gender-swithced eye-candy role…although possibly more the Annie Potts role, maybe.
And I can see McKinnon being my favourite in this cast.