Ghostbusters Salt - Pro, Anti, whatever.

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I am uncertain how this movie will actually do, remakes and reboots have become commonplace in cinema these days, and some have done good, some have bombed.

Ghostbusters, it really is hard to say, the original is pretty much a cultural phenomenon even 30 years after release, it has aged really well.

The 2016 release, I find just will be hard to say if it will do well or not, I wasn't impressed with release of the trailer back in March. (probably mentioned before) AVGN was blasted for refusing to watch it by feminists and SJWs, which makes me wonder if the movie doesn't do well, are movie critics going to be afraid to write bad things about the movie if feminists and SJWs go after them afterwards.
 
Just look at the reviews already out. The ones scoring it highly focus almost entirely on the controversy surrounding the film, blaming angry white male crybabies for the poor reception. The ones scoring it badly take the movie appart as the terrible pos it is, but still pay lip service to the whole mysoginy angle. As long as you pay proper tribute to the narrative you can apparently still do an otherwise objective review. This is going to be one of those movies where the critic meta-average is not at all representative of the audience one though, that's for sure.
 
big baby jesus said:
"Ghostbusters" is my favorite movie but a shitty remake isn't worth chimping over. If your childhood is raped by fictional media then you have severe mental problems.
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It's one of my favorites too, and like I said in the multimedia thread I can pretend this new movie doesn't exist, the same way I pretended nothing was made in the Terminator series since T2.
 
theobservdr said:
I am uncertain how this movie will actually do, remakes and reboots have become commonplace in cinema these days, and some have done good, some have bombed.

Ghostbusters, it really is hard to say, the original is pretty much a cultural phenomenon even 30 years after release, it has aged really well.
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It had a great ensemble cast, i.e. Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis at the height of their talent, a high concept premise that had never been done before, and probably more of the dialogue was ad-libbed than scripted. Even the relatively minor actors were solid, i.e. Rick Moranis, William "Dickless" Atherton, and more normal actors like Sigourney Weaver and Ernie Hudson as a straight man, literally necessary to anchor a movie full of crazies.

Here they had an ensemble cast but a shitty corporate creator (Sony) that is the least funny corporation in the world, brainlessly rehashing something already done and making sure there was no spontaneity at all.
 
Feels very difficult to say if the mainstream audience is going to like it or not, but I doubt is going to be well regarded after the fire ends. The franchise is probably dead regardless, as they probably need big numbers or good word of mouth to even aspire to be a healty franchise. Internet gender wars are not the hook they would want to make a new media empire.
 
The consensus so far on Rotten Tomatoes is: "Good, but not a patch on the original". That could be subject to change once the film actually gets released, but so far this looks like the kind of thing that will be forgotten, with only the internet stink kicked up about it serving as any kind of reminder. At the moment it has 76% which is only 1% higher than Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a film that was widely disliked by general audiences (even though I thought it was okay). Critical consensus doesn't mean anything in a situation like this.
 
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MiloWuCollusion said:
Feels very difficult to say if the mainstream audience is going to like it or not, but I doubt is going to be well regarded after the fire ends. The franchise is probably dead regardless, as they probably need big numbers or good word of mouth to even aspire to be a healty franchise. Internet gender wars are not the hook they would want to make a new media empire.
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Should they have inserted some underage anime girls?
 
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