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  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Risico007 wrote: »
    But why should we waste our time watching a movie we know will be bad I don't need to see Giant Shark Vs Mega Octopus starring Debbie Gibson to know that the film will be bad (in that case I don't even need to see the trailer the title and top bill alone are enough to make me walk away)

    @Risico007, I must say, Giant Shark vs Mega Octopus doesn't reinvent the wheel, but it is entertaining and highly superior to both Jaws 78: The Revenge of Jaws' Sons and Giant Tarantula vs Mondo Black Widow. It's also kind of a spiritual sequel to Pond Scum vs Frog Army, and written by the same team that brought you Mega Super Awesome Mecha Barracuda vs Terrible Tentacled Tiger Shark. It's not to be missed.
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    @cooperman2, the sole purpose of teaser/theatrical trailers is to market/promote your movie, while trying to get people interested enough in paying for a ticket to watch the movie in theaters. The trailers make the movie look like the equivalent of a pile of old cat vomit; thus, I have judged the footage accordingly and won't be seeing it.

    @Creasy47, wow, wow, wow. Don't be so quick to come to conclusions here. What you're saying is massively shortsighted and extremely offensive to old cat vomit. Ghostbusters is more like a year old turd that's grown moldy and covered in dead flies, but that the cast and crew keep trying to polish in vain, not realizing that no matter what they do, it's still going to be a turd at the end of the day. ;)
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7, too damn right! Apologies to old cat vomit worldwide.
  • boldfingerboldfinger
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    cooperman2 wrote: »
    Nearly two pages of almost totally negative critisism for a film no-one has even seen yet. Its like craignotbond.com all over again. I for one will at least give the new Ghostbusters an even chance
    I will give it the same chance I give any film, namely I´ll go if it arouses my interest. So far it doesn´t look like I´ll go.
    But you are right in citicising that a lot of people criticised a film they haven´t seen.

  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    I never met Hitler, but I doubt I'd have liked him ! :))
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    But we have technically seen what the film is comprised of, @boldfinger. Again, isn't that the point of trailers; to market the film and get people to show up and pay to see it? If you fail at that, then I can only surmise the rest of your movie is more or less bad, and I don't want to see it. I don't have the time to blindly watch any and all movies, there are too many good ones I know I'm missing out on to give garbage like this a chance. Just another unfunny looking comedy is all this appears to be.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Also any comedy trailer which has a scene with people Screaming......... bad sign :(
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Thunderpussy wrote: »
    I never met Hitler, but I doubt I'd have liked him ! :))

    Oh come on, @Thunderpussy. You've got to like at least one of his paintings. Appreciate him as an artist, and shove the whole massive genocide and totalitarian regime led by Aryans thing under the rug.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Well ...... he did like dogs, I suppose. :D
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    Coincidentally, I hear George W. Bush has taken up painting as a hobby as well. Quite good at it too supposedly,
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    :)) you should see them, they're something an 8 year old would do.... an
    Untalented 8 year old.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    I'm sure aping a Monet with a set of children's watercolors does a lot to silence the death cries of all the innocents that became the victims of his administration's war crimes.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Spoilers for Ghostbusters.
    The villain gets defeated by crossing the streams onto his balls which mirrors another Feig movie.
    It's like poetry, it rhymes. :|
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    Thunderpussy wrote: »
    I never met Hitler, but I doubt I'd have liked him ! :))

    Oh come on, @Thunderpussy. You've got to like at least one of his paintings. Appreciate him as an artist, and shove the whole massive genocide and totalitarian regime led by Aryans thing under the rug.

    He was a great painter. I don t care what he did in his later years.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    "Two rooms, two coats, one afternoon !" :D
  • Risico007Risico007
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    Ok now I really hope for ghostbusters being a huge flop
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    Thunderpussy wrote: »
    I never met Hitler, but I doubt I'd have liked him ! :))

    Oh come on, @Thunderpussy. You've got to like at least one of his paintings. Appreciate him as an artist, and shove the whole massive genocide and totalitarian regime led by Aryans thing under the rug.

    He was a great painter. I don t care what he did in his later years.

    Yeah, me neither. I think many experts in the art community refer to it as his "Red Period," and they ain't talking about red paint, either.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Risico007 wrote: »
    Ok now I really hope for ghostbusters being a huge flop

    Me too. :)>-
    No more remakes of already good movies!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    It is the same with Charles Manson, Burzum, Polanski, Daniel Craig...

    You enjoy their work regardless of their private endeavours.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Oddly enough I've just noticed a review for the new Ghostbusters calling
    It a solid remake ?
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    I didn't realize it was a remake. Now I get it - they just jumped on the Jurrasic bandwagon, which probably made sense given how successful it and pseudo remake The Force Awakens were last year.

    Hollywood has found a new trick which it will surely exhaust and play to death as always.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    @bondjames @Creasy47 @doubleoego

    After Tom Cruise in 'The Mummy', Russell Crowe as 'Dr Jekyll' and Johnny Depp as 'The Invisible Man', the Monster Cinematic Universe adds Javier Bardem as 'Frankenstein'! And Dwayne Johnson is in talks to be 'The Wolf Man'.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    Wait, are they making a shared universe? I'm intrigued to see that. Those are good choices, I wonder who's being eyed for Dracula.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    Yes, @MajorDSmythe, for example Cruise and Crowe will both be in 'The Mummy' next summer, while Crowe has said he will get his solo film as Dr Jekyll. But apparently all films are connected. But I heard that the 2014 film 'Dracula Untold' is part of this universe, as the 1st film in the franchise.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    DaltonCraig007 wrote: »
    Yes, @MajorDSmythe, for example Cruise and Crowe will both be in 'The Mummy' next summer, while Crowe has said he will get his solo film as Dr Jekyll. But apparently all films are connected. But I heard that the 2014 film 'Dracula Untold' is part of this universe, as the 1st film in the franchise.

    So Dracula Untold is part of the same universe? I still haven't seen that film, consider it done.
  • TuuliaTuulia
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    thelivingroyale wrote: »
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    Better luck next time, I say, when Feig, McCarthy and Wiig all get together with the same old faces in yet another film to play the same exact roles and tell the same exact jokes as they always do, all over again. Double yawn.

    Well the only one of their films that I've actually seen is Bridesmaids and that seems very different to Spy and Ghostbusters. Likewise, from what I've seen her in, Kristen Wiig isn't the same in everything. Off the top of my head I've seen her in Paul and Bridesmaids and the two characters couldn't have been more different. I didn't like Bridesmaids, but Melissa Mccarthy's character in that was nuanced and seemed like a real person, in contrast to the loudmouth characters she seems to play now (to be fair I'm basing this off trailers so I might be wrong even there, Spy got very good reviews so she must have done something right there).

    I've got no interest in Ghostbusters (no interest in the whole franchise really, I've seen the first one when I was younger and I really didn't think that much of it) and for the record I don't think it looks very good at all but I feel like a lot of people actively wanted it to fail, even before the trailers, and anyway it's unfair to make generalisations such as all their work is bad, or all their work is the same, based off one bad film.

    I think the way they've handled the backlash to this movie has been a disaster but there are definitely some people who hated the film because of the all female cast. To say there isn't any at all is ridiculous. How else do you explain the negative backlash that began long before the first trailer hit. As soon as it was announced the "PC gone mad!" brigade were out in full force. Using the old chestnut of there's no reason for it (because for some reason certain people believe there needs to be some sort of story reason or something else to justify diversity in different types of media, films games etc, anything outside of straight white male needs a good reason otherwise it's just seen as pandering). Whereas if it was a reboot with male actors I think there still would've been a vocally annoyed fanbase but not nearly to that extent.

    Yes, criticism of the film is justified now we've had a look at it, but this began long before people knew anything about the film other than it was a woman led reboot. Regardless of the quality of the film, there are definitely sexists who wanted it to fail from the outset. I'm sure there are genuine fans who hated the idea altogther too, but like I said, I think the backlash (pre trailers) would have been significantly smaller if it was a reboot starring men.

    I haven't seen Melissa McCarthy in anything as far as I know, so no comment on her.

    About Ghostbusters, I didn't care for the original either, and was never even remotely interested in the new one, so haven't really been following, but I'm sure you are correct that many people always wanted it to fail, and if the backlash started even before the first trailer then clearly that is indeed the case.

    The bolded bit: that's so true. Everything other than straight white males apparently needs to have a damn good "reason" to even exist in movies as anything other than bit part players or extras. Straight white male is the norm for a movie character and is by far the most common movie character - in general and even more so for lead roles. Deviations from that are indeed easily seen as pandering, as "PC", as having some "agenda". (Some even consider straight white males kissing each other off screen as "pushing an agenda" which is totally ridiculous. It's not some bloody "agenda", just friends being friends.) I don't know why non-straight or non-white or non-male is so often in itself cause for easy ridicule or suspicion, but it most certainly is. It's unfortunate and sad. Obviously what goes for movies reflect common attitudes and opinions otherwise as well.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    @bondjames @Creasy47 @doubleoego

    Have you ever heard of the following 2 films:

    The Escapist (2008)



    And In Order of Disappearance (2014)



    I am asking this because both these films are going to be remade in the next few years, with the same actor attached to play the lead in the 2 projects: Liam Neeson.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    You know the Hollywood remake culture is growing worse each moment when a movie from 2014 is getting one! Good lord...
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    You know the Hollywood remake culture is growing worse each moment when a movie from 2014 is getting one! Good lord...
    Enough said! :))
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    I haven't seen either @DaltonCraig007, but they do seem picture perfect for Neeson.

    I feel like Hollywood has found a new source of creative ideas for thrillers, namely Scandinavia (Wallander, The Bridge, The Killing, TGWTDT & now In Order of Disappearance). Some smart entrepreneur should buy up the film rights to books coming out of those countries, because Hollywood will inevitably come knocking to make an adaptation sooner or later.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    @bondjames @Creasy47



    This will get some big nominations at the end of the year.
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