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  • TuuliaTuulia
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  • Master_DaharkMaster_Dahark
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    For better or worse, here's the Ghostbusters trailer!

  • RC7RC7
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    Looks awful.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    edited March 2016 Posts: 41,024
    RC7 wrote: »
    Looks awful.

    That's an understatement. All along, I knew it would be bad, but I really didn't expect it to look that bad.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    It's supposed to be a comedy, right ? :(
  • Master_DaharkMaster_Dahark
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    It didn't look quite as bad as I imagined. I'm a bit confused though: I thought this was a complete remake, but the very beginning made it feel more like a sequel to the originals. Which is all fine and good, but last I heard a few of the original GB members were having cameos.... as different people.

    So which is it, lol
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    A lot of movies these days seem to think that a lot of shouting and or screaming
    makes it funny. ....... sadly comedy isn't that easy.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    They could have casted Tom Hardy, Matthew McConaghey and Michael Fassbender as the new team, and I still wouldn't care - I want the original crew back as the main characters.
  • daltondalton
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    Master_Dahark wrote: »
    It didn't look quite as bad as I imagined. I'm a bit confused though: I thought this was a complete remake, but the very beginning made it feel more like a sequel to the originals. Which is all fine and good, but last I heard a few of the original GB members were having cameos.... as different people.

    So which is it, lol

    I was confused by that as well. Maybe there's reason to hope that Murray, Aykroyd, and Hudson will actually be playing their old characters and that this offers something for those of us that wanted a straight-up Ghostbusters 3

    The movie looks bad, but there were a couple of positives. I liked the design of the ghosts for the most part. Also liked the nod to the "People Busters" episode of The Real Ghostbusters tv show. The remix of the theme tune was pretty good as well.

  • RC7RC7
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    My assumption is that it is a remake, given that it seems to follow the same general story as the first, right down to the token black character being the only non-scientist. I'm guessing the cameos are just that, a Murray cameo, rather than a Venkman cameo. I genuinely thought this was going to be set in the same world as the original with a new take on the concept, but alas they've done a Jurassic World and re-skinned the original, far superior version.
  • Master_DaharkMaster_Dahark
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    DaltonCraig007 wrote: »
    They could have casted Tom Hardy, Matthew McConaghey and Michael Fassbender as the new team, and I still wouldn't care - I want the original crew back as the main characters.
    A good point. Many of the people bashing this movie are accused of being misogynistic just because it's a female team. That's really not the case! As you say, we just want the originals (Egon notwithstanding)


    And @dalton I agree there were some positives to be sure! I started watching, prepared to hate it, and despite my best efforts, I cracked a smile here and there ;)
  • RC7RC7
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    Master_Dahark wrote: »
    DaltonCraig007 wrote: »
    They could have casted Tom Hardy, Matthew McConaghey and Michael Fassbender as the new team, and I still wouldn't care - I want the original crew back as the main characters.
    A good point. Many of the people bashing this movie are accused of being misogynistic just because it's a female team. That's really not the case! As you say, we just want the originals (Egon notwithstanding)


    And @dalton I agree there were some positives to be sure! I started watching, prepared to hate it, and despite my best efforts, I cracked a smile here and there ;)

    I wasn't even fussed about the originals being back, I just wanted something decent. I'll happily take a female team as long as it doesn't look utterly shite.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    No Sigourney. No deal.
  • Risico007Risico007
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    Master_Dahark wrote: »
    For better or worse, here's the Ghostbusters trailer!


    watched it without sound as I am at work and just NO Nope I refuse to see it.

  • dragonskydragonsky
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    Are there no creative black people in Hollywood?

    How hard is it to create an original black hero? Seriously...Michael B. Jordan will star in Thomas Crown Affair and Idris Elba will be The Gunslinger in King's adaptation....if black people want bigger presence why don't they create an original character? Anyone remember Shaft? Axel Foley? Everyone liked them right? So...why won't you create new character/story?

    Holywood is out of ideas, and everything that's original turns into a sequel-fast quickly...

    Now about the Ghostbusters (the comment above was with me being mad Elba is Roland):

    Lol. Not in the funny way. It had great visuals and amazing theme song remix. It had like 1.5 funny thing in the trailer. And I'm not mad with 2 jokes in entire trailer. It's that the rest of the jokes seem awkward and terrrible. It's like none of these ladies can act....holy crap....how the hell they managed to make Kristen Wiig boring? Why??? Why she must be the boring one? Why all these characters seem boring?

    Well..not everyone..The girl left of Wiig in the thumbnail is the only good spot in the trailer..i totally forgot her namer right now but it seems like she's the only cool character in the movie. I knew she would eventually shine in Hollywood and this might be her breakthrough. She's great in SNL (as well as the guy that's married to Cobie Smulders..I expect him to have a breakthrough eventually as well) and it seems like she will be great in this.

    Everything else left me unimpressed.

    This is going to be bad.

    Also who wants to wage a dollar that someone will cry sexism when this bad movie will flop? :D

    Oh well...I'm seeing Grimsby tonight...and if that movie is not funny..who knows maybe we won't have great comedies in 2016 :/
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I wouldn't say 'Grimsby' is the bar to reach for amazing comedy in 2016, as I think that looks pretty cringeworthy, as well. Maybe I'm as hard to please with comedy these days as I am horror.

    @Risico007, watching that trailer without sound was probably the best way to watch it.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    @Risico007, watching that trailer without sound was probably the best way to watch it.

    If you turn off the screen too, it is even better.
  • HASEROTHASEROT has returned like the tedious inevitability of an unloved season---
    edited March 2016 Posts: 4,399
    that Ghostbusters remake looks like f###### garbage... I was already against a remake from the start, but i was willing to at least see the trailer before coming to any concrete solution - but this all but confirmed it with me...... and for what it's worth, I don't mind Melissa McCarthy - physical comedy (ala Chris Farley) always gets me.. but I don't think the other 3 are funny in the slightest, especially that butch black girl - who plays the same part in whatever she does... always yellin', always angry about something, always "saucy"... it gets old...

    the comedic style of this movie is not in keeping with what Ghostbusters was - granted, this is it's own thing (at least, thats the excuse they'll use) - but when you're directly remaking something that did not need remaking, it's going to draw comparisons whether they want it to or not.... the humor of Ghostbusters was more to do with the wit that came out of the dialog - not slapstick gags.. and it was the way each character played off each other.. the serious scientist - the overzealous geek - the disinterested casanova - and the regular guy... their dynamic all worked.... i dont get the same sort of feeling from this new group.. they all seem like cosplayers instead of real characters to me...... but lets not forget that Ivan Reitman had a huge hand in shaping Ghostbusters as we know it as well... and Paul Feig, the man behind this new movie, is no Ivan Reitman...

    but it's Sony, so what else would you expect - look at the way they handled the Spider-man franchise.. =D> .. they lit that thing on fire and ran it into the ground faster than the Hindenburg.. talk about killing the golden goose.

    but also.. big props to Bill Murray - who, because of his stubborn refusal to do a 3rd movie with the original cast, kind of indirectly led us to being served with this shit show... Thanks Bill. ~X(
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I liked the "ghosts" in the new trailer a lot more when they were colored differently and appeared in 'Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.'
  • HASEROTHASEROT has returned like the tedious inevitability of an unloved season---
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  • Risico007Risico007
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    saw and heard the whole thing now let me be bluntly honest. I have no issue with remakes sequels or reboots. I don't even have issues recasting iconic roles (which doesn't make me popular on MacGyver forums as I'm kind of excited to see another actors take on the role that made RDA famous but neither here nor there) and yet I still think the ghostbusters remake looks stupid and horrible...


    A good Reboot Sequel remake should

    1. Expand upon the original material (I am seeing shot for shot scenes in the original)
    2. Keep the charm of the original
    3. and get us invested in this new world

    this reboot does none of that

    it looks like a bland sequel to Bridesmaids with ghosts instead of weddings. Mellisa MCcarthy is becoming the female Will Ferral all her characters are the exact same. and before people say well aren't all great comedians like that? Nope John Candy Steve Martin even Chris Farley could go from the "straight man" (a subdued chracters and let others around them do the crazy acting) to the Crazy man

    For Actors like Ferral and Actresses like McCarthey there is no nuance no subtleness just hammering the same jokes over and over.

    then there is the female empowerment feminisim nonsense in the trailer I get it woman aren't sex objects fine but really we have to make the female ghostbusters look bland and not even kind of hot except for Hemsworth but honestly men are just sex objects I guess...

    the ghosts look very cartoonish and Feig's direction looks well a mess (is this a parody of the original film is it a remake I don't know and I don't Care) It also relies a lot on gross out humor which I am sorry Vomit Pooping and peeing isn't funny it never was to me and it never will be it does make my stomach churn and make me want to gag but it doesn't make me laugh (I still can't watch that scene in Bridesmaids without feeling quesy) It's the same path Horror movies have taken (Blood is not scary nore is brains and guts being splattered everywhere it's about atmoshphere and tension)

    Again based on the Sony leaks I now actively hate Bill Murray, as the original Ghostbusters 3 script was fantastic with murray and crew having one last battle before dieing actually I liked Ghostbusters: Hellbent as it has a bit more Christian themes (as a christian the idea that science can take on the devil and win sign me up) a bit more but I would of Taken Ghostbusters vs Kothulu any day over this nonsense.


    That isn't to say I wouldn't want a ghostbusters reboot or even an all female ghostbusters (though the idea is a little silly) and as hot as Sigoruney Weaver was Ghostbusters wasn't about sexing up anyone really (though one of the actors playing the devil hands got two second base with Sigourney and I think we all hate that actor a little bit for doing it and getting paid)

    over all this looks like a pass for me and again I don't mind chick flicks heck I don't even mind Chick comedy action flicks or comedy horro flicks but this... yeah I hate to say it but the franchise ended with Ghostbusters the video Game.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    To be fair, the original Ghostbusters movies sucked almost as bad.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    I liked Dan Aykroyd best in Driving Miss Daisy
  • Master_DaharkMaster_Dahark
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    To be fair, the original Ghostbusters movies sucked almost as bad.
    I'll take or leave Ghostbusters 2, but the first one was a classic- the magic of which will likely never be repeated! At its core it's a comedy, but it teeters so close to horror at times. And it was all heart; even before it was released you had them running around in costume in the streets of NY and they were right there in the music video. They just don't do that stuff anymore!

    May I ask when the last time was you watched it? I personally grew up on it, but as I get older I find more and more little things I like! The movie's for everyone!

  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    I'm very much of the same opinion, GB very good, GB2, not so good.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Master_Dahark wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    To be fair, the original Ghostbusters movies sucked almost as bad.
    I'll take or leave Ghostbusters 2, but the first one was a classic- the magic of which will likely never be repeated! At its core it's a comedy, but it teeters so close to horror at times. And it was all heart; even before it was released you had them running around in costume in the streets of NY and they were right there in the music video. They just don't do that stuff anymore!

    May I ask when the last time was you watched it? I personally grew up on it, but as I get older I find more and more little things I like! The movie's for everyone!

    Way back, I lked it as a teenager, but how stupid are teenagers?
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    I did like the theme song from Ray Parker, Jr.
    And I do own the soundtrack from Part 2.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Don't have the theme song but I do have Hughie Lewis's I need a new drug.
    which is close enough. ;)
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    I like the song Bobby Brown did for part 2.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
    edited March 2016 Posts: 9,020
    bondjames wrote: »
    I like the song Bobby Brown did for part 2.

    Absolutely.

    It's so.....80's..... :)) and produced and composed by Babyface by the way.

    EDIT: OMG TRUMP IS IN THIS VIDEO AS WELL!

    <iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/22bO-ayI7Hw"; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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