Ghostbusters Salt - Pro, Anti, whatever.

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Mrs Paul said:
So it turns out to be a bunch of fuss over your typical summer popcorn film.
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Sony were the people who decided to focus on the negativity, it was a really bizarre marketing strategy.

All they had to do was disable comments (Nobody usually takes YouTube comments seriously anyway) and add the original theme song for nostalgia purposes:
 
You have all this salt over this new movie and no one even mentions the original Ghostbusters drama during the creation of the Real Ghostbusters. It's actually really interesting to see how a network killed their own number 1 show. There's a group of interviews with Michael Straczynski, where he talks about his time on the show and how the network basically slaughtered their own prized golden goose. It's really intriguing to see how the original cartoon died as a result of network interference.

 
This is a site I used to like a lot, but now it's turned into Cracked Jr. what with games writers that hate games, and articles that quickly turn into the author shoving their political views into everything.

Now this dude has been melting down and posting at least an article a day praising the movie, and crying about an evil male conspiracy or some shit. After solid weeks of shitting on batman v superman I guess he needed a new hobby.

There was another guy crying misogyny and cranking out articles, but apparently he actually went and saw it and didn't like it.

Today, it's a conspiracy:
http://whatculture.com/film/5-thing...lready-done-to-make-the-film-fail?rf=homepage
This guy still doesn't seem to be out of steam yet, wonder what tomorrow will bring?
 
IMDB users are trashing it (158 user reviews putting it at 2 stars) while Rotten Tomato users are praising it. There is no consistency across the sites but that's probably because you have people who haven't seen it yet trying to increase or lower the ratings. The one thing most people who give it a negative review seem to bring up on both sites is that the plot is terrible.
 
Batman VS Tony Danza said:
IMDB users are trashing it (158 user reviews putting it at 2 stars) while Rotten Tomato users are praising it. There is no consistency across the sites but that's probably because you have people who haven't seen it yet trying to increase or lower the ratings. The one thing most people who give it a negative review seem to bring up on both sites is that the plot is terrible.
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Apparently a fuckton of the 1 out of 10 votes are from people in countries where the film wasn't even released at the time.
 
I actually agree with RLM, where they said that a female cast could have been an asset if it had been handled right and not gone for lowest common denominator humor (And while there are many genres LCD works well for, Comedy tends not to be one because it's very precise). A male cast would lead to direct comparisons with the original cast man for man, but the different humor style and seperation from female comedians could have worked in it's favor, espeically as ghostbusters was as much the actor's child as the writers (especially Dan Akryod and his fucking insane theories)

But instead it's everyone screeching about muh femminish from both sides.
 
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http://collider.com/ghostbusters-extended-cut-blu-ray-paul-feig/

“The editor’s first cut was 4 hours and 15 minutes, and I trimmed that down to a slim 3 and a half hours (laughs). We generate a lot of stuff and I always wanna have all the underpinnings of a big, emotional story, and because of that it just added a lot of extra scenes that as you’re going through, you know you have to make a lot of choices because I knew I had to bring this down under two hours. You just start weeding and saying, ‘What do people want to delve deeper into and what do we wanna just kind of skirt through and get to the fun parts?’”
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Thankfully, the extended cut will end up being 15 min. longer.
 
Pickle Inspector said:
Sony were the people who decided to focus on the negativity, it was a really bizarre marketing strategy.

All they had to do was disable comments (Nobody usually takes YouTube comments seriously anyway) and add the original theme song for nostalgia purposes:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8IDXpOX0Cp0
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Nope... not even the original theme can save this turd. That scene where "Tumblr" licks her guns is so fucking stupid, pandering and cringeworthy.
Batman VS Tony Danza said:
IMDB users are trashing it (158 user reviews putting it at 2 stars) while Rotten Tomato users are praising it. There is no consistency across the sites but that's probably because you have people who haven't seen it yet trying to increase or lower the ratings. The one thing most people who give it a negative review seem to bring up on both sites is that the plot is terrible.
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Internet ratings always suffer from these idiotic rating-wars where people who haven't seen the movie rate it according to their insipid opinions regarding matters that have no relation to the actual movie.

Fortunately enough, we can look at box office results, so we can determine what the actual audience thought of this movie.
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
Nope... not even the original theme can save this turd. That scene where "Tumblr" licks her guns is so fucking stupid, pandering and cringeworthy.

Internet ratings always suffer from these idiotic rating-wars where people who haven't seen the movie rate it according to their insipid opinions regarding matters that have no relation to the actual movie.

Fortunately enough, we can look at box office results, so we can determine what the actual audience thought of this movie.
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Box Office isn't always a good margin of how good a movie is, or even what audiences think, instead it's a just merely how much hype and good advertising it had. Case in point Avatar. Remember Avatar? Actually no you probably don't. Despite being one of the highest grossing movies of all time, nobody can even remember what it was about besides some blue space elves and a guy going Quantum Leap on them.

The Star Wars Prequels, which not even from a autistic perspective of "they ruined star warrrrrrrs" were frankly just bad movies in general, were massive smash successes, as was Crystal Skull. Both simply because of the branding. Almost everyone I knew who say Crystal Skull hated it almost immediatly, invluding people making jeers at it during the screening, but you still went to it because "I mean it's still an Indiana Jones movie, it can't be that bad right, and the only other choice is Vantage Point." And then you have tons of great movies that flopped due to critical missteps in the months between wrapping and release.

Especially because the average moviegoer isn't some autistic looney who spent the last 5 months meticulously debating the merits of the $10 ticket they are going to buy. It's just "Hey wanna catch a movie? Yeah sure, what's on? Ghostbusters I guess?"
 
 
Strelok said:
Box Office isn't always a good margin of how good a movie is, or even what audiences think, instead it's a just merely how much hype and good advertising it had. Case in point Avatar. Remember Avatar? Actually no you probably don't. Despite being one of the highest grossing movies of all time, nobody can even remember what it was about besides some blue space elves and a guy going Quantum Leap on them.

The Star Wars Prequels, which not even from a autistic perspective of "they ruined star warrrrrrrs" were frankly just bad movies in general, were massive smash successes, as was Crystal Skull. Both simply because of the branding. Almost everyone I knew who say Crystal Skull hated it almost immediatly, invluding people making jeers at it during the screening, but you still went to it because "I mean it's still an Indiana Jones movie, it can't be that bad right, and the only other choice is Vantage Point." And then you have tons of great movies that flopped due to critical missteps in the months between wrapping and release.

Especially because the average moviegoer isn't some autistic looney who spent the last 5 months meticulously debating the merits of the $10 ticket they are going to buy. It's just "Hey wanna catch a movie? Yeah sure, what's on? Ghostbusters I guess?"
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Didn't want to imply that good box office results make something a good movie (or vice versa, for that matter), but it does gauge the audiences reaction to the movie a lot better than some random number on the internet that's being fucked with by idiots giving it 10/10 or 1/10 out of spite.
 
You can expect a whole different type of salt coming.

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